WELCOME TO THE EBU MEMBERS NEWSLETTER
This monthly newsletter in English is to inform EBU members and partners
of key issues within our community and share good practices and it is
also available as a word document [1]. It is produced thanks to the
financial support of the European Commission. We hope you enjoy reading
it, and we welcome your comments and feedback.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* News from our campaigns
* The 8th EBU Access Cast
* DBSV strongly criticises new rail travel rules
* New EDF report reveals European Parliament "worst in class" on
digital accessibility
* Israel - Focusing on understanding
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OUR CAMPAIGNS
NEWS FROM OUR CAMPAIGNS [2]
News pn the Marrakesh Treaty, the European Accessibility Act, and
European Elections 2019.
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ACCESSIBILITY
THE 8TH EBU ACCESS CAST [3]
Welcome to the 8th EBU Access Cast. This time Mario, Jakob, Bart and
Tanja prepared lots of goodies for you from the news section, and we
achieved our own personal record in amount of demos prepared for our
podcast. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr. Daniel Montalvo
who sent us 2 demos about amazon Echo which we are publishing in this
episode, and you can hear also the demo about Google Interpreter at the
end of this podcast.
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NEWS FROM EBU MEMBERS
DBSV STRONGLY CRITICISES NEW RAIL TRAVEL RULES [4]
On 1 February, rail travel in Germany suddenly became more complicated
for persons with disabilities in Germany. Deutsche Bahn, the main
operator of railways and rail stations in Germany, announced that it
would no longer organise mobility assistance for travellers with
disabilities on all routes.
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ACCESSIBILITY
NEW EDF REPORT REVEALS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT “WORST IN CLASS” ON DIGITAL
ACCESSIBILITY [5]
The low score of the European Parliament, a barely passing grade of 55.8
out of 100, was revealed in the new report "Democracy, Digital
Accessibility and the European Union", launched today by the European
Disability Forum and Siteimprove. The report analysed the accessibility
of the official website of the parliaments of the 28 Member States and
included the European Parliament website.
This is not a surprise for persons with disabilities working in EU
affairs. Complaints include lack of captioning in their livestreams,
rendering them unusable for deaf or hard of hearing users, and pages
that are not correctly marked, rendering them unreadable to blind and
partially sighted persons relying on assistive technology, among others.
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NEWS FROM EBU MEMBERS
ISRAEL - FOCUSING ON UNDERSTANDING [6]
Blind Day is an annual event held on the 6th of the 6th (Israel's
equivalent of 20:20) when all are enlisted, the media, social
organizations, volunteers, to talk candidly, expose their strengths and
weaknesses, trials and tribulations and simply, show "a day in the life"
of vision impaired adults and children. The aim is to raise the public's
awareness of the needs of Israel's blind and those with limited vision
by creating activities and experiences leading to a national
understanding and conversation regarding the issues.
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