1. Urbaccess : The European Accessibility Show
The first European Accessibility Accessibility for all
Show
The accessibility chain concerns various
Urbaccess is the only European event people : those who have a physical,
that gathers designers, professionals, visual, auditory, or intellectual disability;
users, decision makers and thinkers. but also all the citizens who could lose
their autonomy, because of the birth of a
All of them are dedicated to universal child, a temporary inability to move, age,
design, and the whole chain of obesity, small size…
accessibility.
French and European Laws
Key Figures The French Equality of rights and chances
The accessibility market in Europe law of 15 February 2005 establishes as an
objective the accessibility in all public
• 80 million people suffering from a spaces, road and transportation by 2015.
disability
• 40% of the population with reduced The European Commission is preparing a
mobility similar law for 2012.
• 50% of the population will be directly
affected by 2030 Everywhere in Europe, professionals need
to be ready to answer new accessibility
Partnerships standards.
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