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The aim of the event is to raise awareness of accessibility standards among government workers (architects, town planners, landscape architects, etc.), while enabling them to take part in practical workshops to gain a better understanding of the realities and needs of persons with disabilities.
Details on the event:
- Target audience: Local authority and administrative staff (architects, town planners, landscape architects, etc.) , as well as people with disabilities, advisory councils, ministers and local deputies.
- When:
- Monday, 22 September: Website Accessibility, 09:00-13:00
- Tuesday, 23 September: Accessibility of Informative Content - FALC, 09:00-13:00
- Thursday, 25 September: Building Accessibility, 09:00-13:00
- Friday, 26 September: Road Accessibility, 09:00-13:00
- Where: W:Hall – Cultural and Congress Centre of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. Avenue Charles Thielemans, 95, 1150 Brussels, Belgium
- Format: Physical
- Type of event: Awareness-raising
- Language: French
- How to participate: Free registration
- Accessibility information: Accessible venue. Upon request: Captioning and sign language interpretation in French, induction loop.
- More information
- inclusion | social policy | standardisation | European standard | architecture | urban habitat | rural habitat
- Monday 22 September 2025, 09:00 - Friday 26 September 2025, 13:00 (CEST)
- Country
- Belgium
Programme
- 22 Sep 2025, 09:00 - 26 Sep 2025, 13:00 (CEST)Agenda
- 9:00 Welcoming participants
- 9:30 Presentation by Stéphanie Herman, National Accessibility Expert, European Accessibility Resource Centre AccessibleEU:
- Concept of ‘handistreaming’ at all levels of decision-making (local, regional, federal and European).
- Explanation of the various workshops that follow.
- 10:00 Motor impairment workshop: Simulating the experience of being in a wheelchair
- 10:30 Intellectual impairment workshop: Simulating the experience of people with comprehension difficulties
- 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:15 Visual impairment workshop: Simulation: how to find your way around using a white cane
- 11:45 Hearing impairment workshop: Simulation to experience the difficulties encountered by deaf and hard-of-hearing people
- 12:15 Normative workshop:
- 22 September: Website accessibility: How to make websites accessible to all? Immersion in the digital life of a visually impaired, blind or otherwise disabled person by Accessia asbl.
- 23 September: Accessibility of information content - FALC: How to make information content accessible to all? Presentation of the FALC (Easy to Read and Understand) method
- 25 September: Building accessibility: How can we make a building accessible? What are the standards and guiding principles?
- 26 September: Road accessibility: How can we take road accessibility standards into account?
- 13:00 End
Practical information
- When
- Monday 22 September 2025, 09:00 - Friday 26 September 2025, 13:00 (CEST)
- Languages
- French