Digital Accessibility for You Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Accessibility for You

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The DA4You project is a digital non-formal education and democratic voluntary activity portal for digital accessibility.

DA4You is a digital platform that informs about accessibility with live images, audio, graphics and texts. A platform that uses forms of communication that increase awareness of accessibility and increase debate about developments in Europe, as the combination of live images, sound, graphics and texts gives the greatest effect to the recipient. The platform enables young people with communication disabilities / visual, hearing and dyslexia to be able to use digital media for communication and dissemination.

THE MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT
• Democratic participation in the debate on accessibility in Europe (conventions, directives and citizen initiatives)
To create dialogue platforms that can promote young people with communication handicaps active participation in a democratic debate on accessibility in Europe, across disability, geography and language. A debate to ensure that their needs better served in terms of availability in Europe by, the experts in their own lives, can bring innovative ideas and approach to current problems and issues that would form the new basis for future actions.

• Digital accessibility as user and manufacturer (what’s in the toolbox, technology, platforms).
Everyone must have equal access to the media to participate democratically in society, why accessibility for young people with communication disabilities is important. In collaboration with content producers and technology providers, knowledge about accessibility on digital media, including accessibility services and help tools, is gathered.

• Education in the use of digital media (video and audio production, social media, web).
Through customized training and courses, make young people with communication disability able to use the digital media for communication and dissemination using their own produced content. To build skills to master the digital media that include special requirements in relation to accessibility.

STANDARD CONSUMER EQUIPMENT
The project is technologically based on standard consumer equipment, such as Smartphones and Tablets, since it is common equipment to own and supports the mobility that suits young people’s lifestyles today. At the same time, there is a high degree of support for accessibility services and functions in these types of equipment that the project wishes to use and explore.

OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCE (OER)
DA4You aims to gather informative materials on an open and shared public service platform.
A digital platform that makes the materials publicly accessible so that the population, associations and organizations, educational institutions and libraries as well as the media can gain insight into the subject, as well as apply the materials for different purposes.

DA4You is a European meeting place for information and debate about accessibility, with its structure creates contact between the authorities and elected representatives to civil society citizens and NGOs in several languages. DA4You are the people’s participant democracy on an overall digital public service platform that is also receptive to Public Access.

TARGET GROUPS
Target group for the DA4You project is young people with disabilities from 18 to 30 years with a focus on digital accessibility. Main audiences are visually impaired, hearing impaired and dyslexic. However, the target group also contains groups of young people with disabilities who have digital communication problems for other reasons, such as autism, speech impairments and physical disorders that cause communication problems.
The main language in the project is English, but the project has a limit Multilanguage support (English, Swedish and Danish).
The young people with disabilities have participated in three courses on the above subjects, 20 – 25 students from each country in three courses, a total of 180 to 200 students throughout the project.

COURSES
The courses has provided young people with knowledge about accessibility so that they can participate actively in the debate and development of accessibility in Europe. The themes are accessibility principles and legislation, accessibility in practice and accessibility in media production.

Each course contains the following elements:
• Digital learning materials, modules and guides
• Start up in all three countries with live web TV
• National course
• Completion in all three countries with live web TV
• National evaluations
The activities are published in the DA4You website and locally in the three countries.

Project Website

https://da4you.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 212154,1 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mediehuset København ApS & Country: DK

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
• FUNKA NU AB