Promoting Accessibility in Digital World - Case Finland
Supporting Foundation for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Finland, Vamlas aims to provide expert services, training, and projects for equal opportunities. They focus on inclusive housing, education, and employment while adhering to the EU Directive on website accessibility. Guidelines for website accessibility prioritize perceivability, operability, understandability, and robustness. The case of Finland highlights challenges faced by a diverse group of individuals in accessing digital services. Australia's approach to developing a design-for-all strategy is also discussed.
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ACCESSIBILITY IN DIGITAL WORLD CASE FINLAND Pauliina Lampinen Supporting Foundation for Children and Youth with Disabilites pauliina.lampinen@vamlas.fi
Vamlas today Promoting equal opportunities, participation and human rights of children and youth with disabilities Today Vamlas provides expert services, training and projects (employment, education, hobbies) Inclusive housing services for students in Helsinki, Lauttasaari (Hoas) Staff total of 30 people Our goal: Accessible services and right for participation Education and paid work for all The way I want living and assistance www.vamlas.fi 15.3.2025
Directive (EU) 2016/2102 On the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies (incl. some associations) Websites published after 23.9.2018 accessible by 23.9.2019 Mobile applications accessible by 23.6.2021 Information and advice and training: https://www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi/ 15.3.2025
Guidelines for accessibility of websites 1. Perceivable - Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive. This means that users must be able to perceive the information being presented (it can't be invisible to all of their senses) Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable. This means that users must be able to operate the interface (the interface cannot require interaction that a user cannot perform) Understandable - Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable. This means that users must be able to understand the information as well as the operation of the user interface (the content or operation cannot be beyond their understanding) Robust - Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. This means that users must be able to access the content as technologies advance (as technologies and user agents evolve, the content should remain accessible) If any of these are not true, users with disabilities will not be able to use the Web. 2. 3. 4. 15.3.2025
Case Finland 1 mil. People exclusive from digital services; heterogenius group: elderly, disabled, people with low reading and writing skills Difficult to find skillful web desingers Constantly changing technology a challenge; how to keep up? Need to develop design for all strategy. Case Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEM9Fn9aOG8 15.3.2025
