MORE ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITY

An innovative project was recently presented during a study visit at the Portugues Parliament in the context of the project Vote4All.eu* by Prof. Rui Coimbras, Solution Architect of Softinsa/IBM and President of the Federation of the Portuguese Associations of Cerebral Palsy (FAPPC).

The solution proposed can act as a true facilitator and enables the accessible vote to people with disabilities, suggesting the generic requisites and some best practices to interact with these significant audiences in our societies.

This aims to meet the democracy values and rights and opens the extend of new possibilities where people who are blind, with low vision or have physical and mobility limitations, including elderly people, would finally be able to vote in a secret and independent way without the help from an assistant like any other citizen.

During a more recent study visit at the Ministry of the Interior in The Hague, the project was very positively considered as well.

In this short interview I made to Rui Coimbras the functioning of the solution is shown.