Excellence through Accessibility Award

• Main accessibility initiative in ireland
  • Programme for Prosperity and Fairness 2000 - a commitment
  • Partnership between NDA and Dept. of Justice
  • An awards process for Government Departments and their agencies
  • does not apply to private sector
• 14 accessibility guidelines and a detailed assessment tool
  • Built Environment
  • Quality Customer Services
  • ICT
    • provision of information
    • Public Access Terminal e.g. kiosk
    • Websites and other HTML content
• Consultation process, Pilot Study, Peer Review
• In partnership with Dept. of Justice