Type of Project: Funded project
Action Alliance for Barrier-Free Information Technology (ABI II)

Information should be made available to everyone. On the Internet, too, of course. People with disabilities are often excluded from using the Internet because of completely unnecessary barriers. For this reason, disability associations and experts have joined forces in the Action Alliance for Barrier-free Information Technology (AbI). AbI stands for: A - Aktionsbündnis für b - barrierefreie I - Informationstechnik Together they support the implementation of accessibility in information technology. AbI has set itself the goal of implementing the existing regulatory framework (with SGB IX and the Equal Opportunities for Disabled Persons Act) to dismantle these barriers. So far, a whole range of partners and supporters have already joined AbI. Further initiatives are invited to participate actively in the action alliance. Goals: To promote barrier-free access to the Internet for people with disabilities, it is important on the one hand to create awareness of the issue among the public and to inform them about the purpose of the goal, and on the other hand to make clear to the creators and providers of sites the benefits and procedures for barrier-free offerings. In addition, the effectiveness - quality of accessibility - must be determined. The goals of the Action Alliance include: - to reduce access barriers for people with different disabilities on the Internet and intranet to professionally relevant information and communication offers as far as possible - to bundle relevant existing initiatives and projects with their possibilities and interests - to create an offer that sustainably supports the process of designing barrier-free Internet pages - to support the creation of a German contact center in the European network "Design for All in the Information Society" EDeAN.