ITU works both to promote globally ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities and to make ITU a more accessible organization for persons with disabilities. The work is conducted via regional events, ICT accessibility assessment, resource development and capacity-building materials including video tutorials on development and remediation of accessible digital content.
- Regional events share good practices and challenges, and identify ways to mainstream digital accessibility, and to help develop digitally inclusive societies globally.
- ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and Specific Needs, a session within the WSIS event 2021, featured virtual workshops on innovative technologies, brought together experts and stakeholders to explore how ICTs can help people with blindness and vision impairment, and showcased emerging assistive technologies.
- ITU has developed a range of high-value tools helping ITU members, policy-makers and stakeholders to build inclusive digital communities:
- ITU Self-Assessment and Toolkit for ICT Accessibility Implementation
- ICT Accessibility: The key to inclusive communication
- Web Accessibility – The Cornerstone of Digital Society
- Handbook on Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting networks and systems implementation, outlining Accessibility to broadcasting services for persons with disabilitiesITU has worked within the UN to promote access for disabled persons – for example contributing to the Digital Inclusion Summit – Leaving No One Behind, and to the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy.
- ITU Guidelines on how to ensure that digital information, services and products are accessible by all people, including Persons with Disabilities during COVID-19 (2020) set out concrete actions for policy-makers and communicators in ensuring that COVID related digital information is accessible to all people, including persons with disabilities.