Posted by: CynthiaL on May 9th, 2008
29 January 2008 International Organization for Standardization press release
A new ISO standard for spinal disc implants will help reduce suffering of back pain patients. The new standard will help ensure that spinal disc prostheses meet requirements for wear resistance, particularly important as once implanted these will need to absorb the impact from the body’s daily [...]
Posted by: CynthiaL on May 9th, 2008
2008-02-12
Equipping pedestrian street crossings with acoustic and tactile signals to help disabled persons was a step forward. The problem is that they vary from one country to another. Now, a new ISO standard provides the basis for harmonizing such signals on a worldwide basis.
The aim of ISO 23600:2007, Assistive products for persons with vision impairments [...]
Read: New ISO standard will make crossing the street safer for disabled persons »
Posted by: admin on May 3rd, 2008
(Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2008 edition of Communicator, the quarterly journal of ISTC - Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. The AccessAbility SIG is grateful for the permission to reprint the article here.)
Richard Hodgkinson reports on new developments for European ICT documentation accessibility.
Regular readers of these pages will recall my reports [...]
Posted by: admin on May 3rd, 2008
Today, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) entered into force. When you realize that an estimated 650 million people worldwide are affected by this groundbreaking treaty, this is very big news.
According to the news release about CRPD from the UN News Centre today, the rights of persons with disabilities [...]
Read: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities goes into force today »
Posted by: kmardahl on May 1st, 2008
TEITAC proudly presented its report to the United States Access Board on April 3rd concerning revision recommendations regarding the standards for section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and the guidelines for section 255 of the US Telecommunications Act.
The April 3rd TEITAC announcement can be read in its entirety on the Web, as well as [...]
Read: TEITAC got the job done! »
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