Internet Accessibility
Accessibility on the
Internet. The Division for Social Policy and Development of the United
Nations Secretariat has published a technical review of Internet accessibility issues and
trends on its "Persons with Disabilities" home page on the Internet World Wide
Web site of the United Nations (http://www.un.org/esa
/socdev/disacc00.htm).
The summary report on the
pilot project to design, plan and develop the "Persons with Disabilities" home
page as the first fully-accessible Internet resource of the United Nations
Secretariat has been published by the subcontractor to the United Nations, Vision Office
Support Services, Ltd. (http://www.visionoffice.com/spd/
summary.htm).
Vision Office also has published a review of "Web Accessibility Resources"
available at (http:/www.visionoffice.com/
iaccess/resources.htm).
The report of an interregional workshop and seminar, "Internet
accessibility for all" has been published by the subcontractor to the United
Nations, Associates for International Management Services
(http://www.intlmgt.com/
Acessibility98/access98index.htm). The report includes substantive presentations,
resource links and summary of the concluding seminar at the United Nations, opened by H.E.
Mr. Felipe Mabilangan, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of the
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Disability policy and programme resources.
The "Persons with
Disabilities" home page has a brief introduction to the activities
of the United Nations related to persons with disabilities and links to a global policy
reviews, technical studies and workshop reports. (http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/
disabled.htm)
Information on the Asia and
Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (1993-2002) and links to its substantive
resources has been published by the Social Development Division on their home page at the
Internet World Wide Web site of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (http://www.unescap.org/decade/
index.htm).
Social development information resources in Asia and the Pacific.
The Social Development Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific held in November 1998 at Bangkok a "Regional Workshop on Social
Development Information through the Internet", whose final report is available
from their Internet World Wide Web site (http://www.unescap.org/sps/
sdinfo/meetingreport.htm).
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