Raising the Floor International
Organization size: 100+ employees
Key product/service items: advocacy and research
Accessibility website overview: The website has four broad sections, namely About Us, Our Projects, Raising the Floor Community and Get Involved. The Projects section lists the broad goals and missions of the international organization along with highlighting through select resources how they achieve their tasks. The news section under ‘About us’ compiles the accessibility and disability news of the industry.
Key statements on ICT product and services accessibility:
Raising the Floor seeks to ensure:
1. that access technologies are available for all types of functional impairment including those due to disability, literacy level, or effects of aging,
2. that these access technologies are effective enough to provide access to the ever evolving technologies used to create Internet based information, services and communities, and
3. that these access technologies are affordable for those of all socio-economic levels and all communities.
Whereas members of the consortium or movement are engaged in a wide range of activities, the RTF-I association will focus its effort on facilitating the efforts of others and especially fostering the development of a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure.
Key areas of accessibility work:
Raising the Floor is organized around 5 major activities.
Needs and Numbers - Detailed and quantified information on people who experience the different barriers to use of ICT and content. This includes information on how those people can be served better by educators, businesses, etc.
• Needs must drive overall efforts.
• Important for research, policy, and market planning.
Masterlist of Strategies - A resource on all known approaches for facilitating accessibility of products and content
• Important for product design, finding new opportunities for research and development, and understanding today's accessibility environment.
• We want to build off what exists and advance it, rather than duplicating it unnecessarily.
Challenges - A central location for people looking for projects they can work on that would raise the floor of ICT accessibility for all.
• Helping to direct the rich resource of students, professors, hobbyists, and interested developers of all types toward the most pressing needs in this area.
GPII - Building a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure
• To facilitate developers, funders, policymakers, and others in their attempts to secure, create, and deliver solutions to all who need them, more effectively and less expensively.
Spotlight - Recognizing and highlighting the efforts of companies, organizations, governments, and individuals who significantly change the accessibility landscape.
Organization website: http://raisingthefloor.org
Contact information:
Raising the Floor - International
Geneva, 1204 Switzerland
+41-2251-80791
Email: info@RaisingTheFloor.org