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European Blind UnionThis week, we are participating in the @EuroGuideDogFed External link (user) conference in Athens. Rodrigo Santos, from our Portuguese member @AcapoPt External link (user), has attended the event on behalf of @euroblind External link (user). https://t.co/eIEhNr73Wg
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European Blind Union#WAD compliance reporting: the attitude of services whose website or apps gets negative review? Generally very positive, grateful for a free audit they can pass on to their hierarchy and service providers. Pressure reflects on public procurement too. https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind UnionIn general, it is reassuring to observe that national monitoring bodies appear to be acting as accessibility "activists", wanting to do better, whereas Member States tended to push back in the early days towards implementation of the #WAD. https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind UnionInteresting and ambitious approach by Danish monitoring authority: besides intermediary (more refined) targets they are considering making these moving targets as overall results get better. https://t.co/JfpJtwzsqa
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European Blind UnionSusanna Laurin of @IAAPOrg External link (user) on #WAD compliance: "full compliance" very hard to achieve, unsurprisingly almost all websites and apps checked are "partially compliant". How to motivate progress toward full compliance with only three compliance results (not/partially/full compliant)? https://t.co/fz4w5cTPxT
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European Blind Union#WAD: spill-over effect to private sector? Certainly to those companies selling their services to public sector, but beyond that, too early to say, apparently (except where national legislation would extend the scope of the directive, we add). https://t.co/fz4w5cTPxT
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European Blind Union#WAD monitoring: national authorities seem to agree on needing a common testing procedure for the manual testing, as well as common automatic testing tools. This would also allow comparability at EU level. https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind Union#WAD Croatia: after comparison, manual testing preferred, by persons with disabilities, for "true-user experience'. But it is time-consuming even if working on a relatively small sample. https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind Union#WAD - monitoring in Hungary: like in Portugal, a mix of automatic and manual testing. Supporting the public sector as much as policing it. https://t.co/fz4w5cTPxT
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European Blind Union#WAD implementation monitoring: interestingly, Portugal authority rewards, through a form of 'certification' the involvement of people with disabilities in their testing. https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind Union#WAD: European Commission is carrying out what is possibly the largest monitoring exercise of a directive ever. Country reports differ a lot, so it is hard to compare implementations. https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind Union@alexmoledo External link (user) from @MyEDF External link (user) #WAD: people with disabilities' organisations have to beef up their expertise, if they want to deliver on "Nothing about us without us". Susanna Laurin @IAAPOrg External link (user): but end-users should be paid for their expertise (we agree). https://t.co/fz4w5cTPxT
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European Blind UnionIndividual complaints on the rise through feedback mechanism, good news. (2/3)
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European Blind UnionNorway authority working on mandatory solution for accessibility statement, prioritising user-friendliness for users with disabilities. (3/3)
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European Blind UnionMalin Rygg, Head of relevant Authority in Norway, tells of experience in her country of implementing #WAD. Controls focused on sites with wider impact, public or private. 60% overall compliance, not good enough. (1/3) https://t.co/fz4w5cTPxT
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European Blind UnionAlejandro Moledo of @MyEDF External link (user) points at FAQs on #WAD: https://t.co/DyAC4RFaVP https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind UnionAreas of progress: limited comparability between countries; feedback mechanism inconsistently in place; lack of available expertise. But there is genuine cooperation between countries and now a culture of must-have accessibility (2/2)
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European Blind UnionJune Lowery of DG CNNECT @EU_Commission External link (user): #WAD in some EU countries caused first ever web accessibility legislation. All have transposed legislation. No issues of cost raised (1/2) https://t.co/fz4w5cThIl
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European Blind UnionWe are attending the @IAAPOrg External link (user) and @MyEDF External link (user) online event to celebrate the Web Accessibility Directive (#WAD) Second Anniversary. We will follow up the main issues discussed there. https://t.co/Zi8zHsuXgM
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European Blind UnionAn excellent initiative for raising awareness among younger generations of the importance of personal #mobility for #VisuallyImpaired people. 👏 Congratulations @ONCE_oficial External link (user) AND @AYTO_CIUDADREAL External link (user). https://t.co/MtJ65S5Er3
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