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EASYTV, Easing the access of Europeans with disabilities to converging media and content

Year 2017

Title EASYTV, Easing the access of Europeans with disabilities to converging media and content

Leader Federico Álvarez García

Strategic Areas Interaction & Interfaces

Funding Entity Comisión Europea

One of the many challenges people with various degrees of disabilities face (visually or hearing impaired) is their inability and difficulty to access mainstream products and services thus being excluded from enjoying audio-visual services on an equal basis as people without disabilities. Marginalising people with disabilities on this level is a critical and problematic issue, especially in today’s “Information Society”, where access to information should be freely available to all, in order for each individual to be able to reach his/her maximum potential, personally, professionally and socially. While these challenges have been identified, they have not been addressed yet efficiently since existing solutions still inherit characteristics of the analogue TV or just focus on traditional TV viewing.

Source: Cordis Europa