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Colloque 2000: Summary of possible solutions
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETS
- Ensure universal accessibility to NICT products, and develop a universal code of ethics for technological development.
- Involve standard equipment manufacturers in the adaptation process from the outset, so that they can make effective contributions and avoid unnecessary hurdles.
- Support efforts to unite people and groups involved in the development of adaptive NICTs.
- Recognize the contributions of people with disabilities to the entire research and development process for adaptive products (expertise, social costs, etc.).
- Increase scientific researchers' awareness of the problems that all people with disabilities face, without giving preference to any one specific impairment in applied research.
- Identify and meet the true needs and expectations of people with disabilities with respect to NICTs.
- Conduct a quantitative and qualitative evaluation that addresses all economic and social factors, so as to validate the necessity and pertinence of certain proposed technological tools.
- Disseminate the results of NICT research to people with disabilities.
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- Ensure that the state plays its role and fully assumes its responsibilities with respect to integrating people with disabilities.
- Establish standards to allow greater accessibility to NICTs by people with disabilities.
- Reinforce coercive and incentive measures.
- Beef up legislation on people with disabilities to ensure that it can be respected by all.
- Sensitize, inform and encourage partnerships between designers of CD-ROMS and software developed in Quebec and people with disabilities.
- Extend access to financial assistance for NICTs to people with disabilities who are not employed, not engaged in a process to enter the workforce, nor at school.
- Relax program and grant rules to allow greater flexibility and adaptation to each case.
WEB SITES
- Give people with disabilities access to powerful computer equipment.
- Sensitize Web site designers and Webmasters to the need to make their sites accessible to people with disabilities, which includes updating all information.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CO-OPERATION
- Join international networks, in particular within the French-speaking world.
- Include social economy companies in international co-operation programs.
PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT
- Sensitize workplaces to adaptive NICTs for people with disabilities.
TRAINING
- Accord greater importance to sensitizing and training young people with disabilities on NICTs.
- Make basic training and continuing education (by type of disability) accessible to people with disabilities, and train trainers.
- Sensitize universities to the problems with NICTs and their impact on the integration of people with disabilities.
- Develop post-graduate programs to ensure research into new ways of improving the daily lives of people with disabilities (e.g., rehabilitation engineering programs).
STRUCTURED INTERVENTION
- Promote permanent, organized leadership and structured intervention.
- Set up an electronic discussion forum to encourage discussion and permit improved dissemination of available information.
- Provide a showcase for all interested parties (researchers, companies, users) to promote and research the range of NICTs and their use.
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