Objectives

The main aim and objective of LEAD-ME is to create a fruitful collaboration among all stakeholders in the field of Media Accessibility: researchers, engineers, scholars as well as businesses and policymakers will be empowered with a common and unique platform for observing and influencing Media Accessibility and contributing to existing standards, and propose new ones, in Europe.

To achieve this, the following objectives have been identified:

• Trace the panorama and develop a roadmap for Media Accessibility across Europe
• Host EU funded project results to offer resilience to existing solutions
• Internationally coordinate the development of knowledge-producing narrative on accessibility referred to multimedia sector
• Coordination management of policy makers to standardize regulation on accessibility topics starting from UN art. 21 and 30 and addressing the European Union (EU) Directive on the Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and the European Accessibility Act
• Develop a platform to gather all accessibility information
• Define both a professional and an academic curriculum for the next accessibility experts in Europe with the related certifications
• Coordination of new experimentation and testing of innovative tool and technology applied to media content in an accessible way Capacity Building
• Fostering knowledge exchange and development of a joint research agenda on Accessibility
• Establish the platform where stakeholders and communities for applications on accessibility linked to the multimedia sector will meet
• Involvement of associations of people with disabilities and other associations at European, national and local level under the motto “nothing for us without us”