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Standards Are Drivers for Accessibility and Usability: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session

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Standardisation of products and services developed with a Design for All or Universal Design perspective in mind has been a recurrent theme at the ICCHP conferences. Since the 2008 edition a special thematic session has been organised, bringing together the different contributions in this field. We will describe briefly the 2010 STS. Furthermore as this year’s theme of the World Standards Day (organised by ISO, ITU and IEC) will be “Accessibility”, some background information on this important issue will be given.

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  1. Guide 6, the European version of ISO Guide 71, covers the knowledge that should be available within standardisation bodies willing to produce standards for accessible products. More details on, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN/CENELEC_Guide_6

  2. The World Standards Day (in fact a whole week in the US) is announced at, http://www.ansi.org/meetings_events/WSW10/fact_sheet.aspx?menuid=8

  3. Press release of ISO in relation to the World Standards Day 2010 (2010), http://www.iso.org/iso/wsd_2010.htm

  4. Updated information on the WSD can be found at the link above or at, http://www.iso.org/iso/events.htm

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  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-SCDocarch, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, box 2442, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Jan Engelen

  2. Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Technical University of Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Straße 50, D-44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Engelen, J., Bühler, C. (2010). Standards Are Drivers for Accessibility and Usability: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_88

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