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U Design brings accessible design to higher education free of cost. The site offers different tools to help students get started with accessible design.

The Slovenian website Dostopno.si has received the Information Strawberry Award for the best achievement in the field of the information society.

AccessibleEU organises the event ‘Safe, inclusive and accessible mobility in smart cities’, which will be held in Madrid on 24 October as a part of the Global Mobility Call 2023.

On September 1, 2023, Poland’s Ministry of Sports and Tourism announced the Programme for the development of social tourism supporting physical activity of society - promoting tourism for older people, and children with disabilities.

The Swedish Agency for Digital Government (DIGG) is studying the possibility of fining two Swedish public bodies for failing to comply with web accessibility requirements.

The W3C has published the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2), which adds nine success criteria and removes the Parsing criteria which has been declared obsolete.

October has arrived with many interesting and inspiring events organised by AccessibleEU across Europe, featuring accessibility experts and professionals from other areas.

The State of Luxembourg has put in place a series of initiatives to improve accessibility in their voting system and ensure the participation of people with disabilities in the upcoming 8 October general elections.

Italian public and private websites and applications with an average turnover exceeding EUR 500 million in the last 3 years, must publish or update their accessibility statement by 23 September in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree 76/2020.