Anti discrimination legislation is integrated in the social security act, but also emphasized in the report IT and the Elderly, where the objective for the elderly policy is as follows:
Concerning ICT there is no distinction made between general AT and ICT-applications; one is considered as an extension of the other.
This issue "design for all" is pronounced in the ICT-Bill. General web-services such as public information have been implemented. Now efforts are oriented towards the building of special needs solutions. This is a rather recent initiative, since most of the previous efforts have been concentrated on making public information public, on the Internet.
Now activities have reached the next stage, where the issue is to design new standards on large scale for the disabled and for the elderly. Historically a lot of R&D have been accomplished with regard to individual solutions for individual persons with specific needs - in their homes, cars, and so on. Now the challenge is to develop solutions on an industrial scale.
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