Bet Google because the network is a means to everyone ”.
during the II Congress national CENTAC of technologies of accessibility.
-Responsible for public administration of Google Spain says that often falls into the trap of thinking that people with disabilities are a small percentage ”
Seville, October 2011.- responsible for the area of public administration of Google Spain, hope Ibáñez, has bet on Tuesday because the network is a means to everyone ” and has insisted that Google will continue to develop tools to meet the needs of persons with disabilities ”.
He has thus secured it during his speech at the II Congress national Centac of technologies of accessibility, organized by the National Centre for technology accessibility (CENTAC), which was held in the monastery of La Cartuja in Seville.
Hope Ibáñez has been accompanied by Manuel Tuset, Google Enterprise and partner Geomercados fundadador expert, who has been submitted to the rapporteur.
Internet has changed our lives ”, highlighted by Ibáñez, who has been reported that in a recent survey by Cisco, 32% of young people claimed that the Internet is as vital as air ”. He said, currently, there are 325 million web sites, at the time who said that the network provides 234,000 million to the national GDP and its economic impact is growing ”.
Since its inception, as emphasised Ibáñez, the main objective of Google has been organizing the information and make it accessible because each user imported ”. However, has remarked, fall into the trap of thinking that people with disabilities represent a small percentage ” when in 2009, Internet users with disabilities in Spain exceeded the total of Bolivia users.
In addition, has presented some of the accessible products developed by Google as Chrome Vox ”, the web browser for visually impaired; the open system of mobile Android ”; or the application to be able to subtitle videos from Youtube.
Previously, the round table, held how to transform an idea into a reality? ”, in which the project manager of CENTAC, Diego Soriano, has stressed that innovation is the engine of growth ” and explained whereas, therefore, many companies now only bet on innovation and accessibility technologies ”.
For its part, the Code Factory, Melanie Endres, Sales Director has assured that the policy of your company is make available what is not ”. Thus explained that Code Factory offers products available for different technology platforms.
Also said that the integrated accessibility of series for all is the Grand ” objective of your company and it has recognized that the world of telephony is the sector where they are more established. In this regard, he recalled that in its early days was when they received a request from the eleven to make games and phones for blind people.
On the other hand, responsible for projects RETADIS and network centres RETADIS for Personal accessibility in Telefónica, Ricardo Gaitán Pacheco, explained this initiative which directs and which consists of the installation of equipment to integrate suitable jobs.
Thus, presented the network of 26 autonomous centres managed by entities and associations in the world of disability, as well as the network of centres RETADIS for Personal accessibility, which began with a national call in which selected 50 personal users to install an accessible technology in their homes.
In addition, the head of sales and operations for Spain and Portugal solutions Naunce for companies, operators of telecommunications and points of contact, Juan Luis Picazo González; and the director of banking relational e – La Caixa, Ramiro Sánchez-Crespo, have offered solutions teconológicas of their companies.
In this sense, Picazo has stressed that has to prevail the functionality of the new technologies to meet the needs of persons with disabilities ”, while Sánchez-Crespo has coincided with him the importance of installing the best service and the best design for all.
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Its objective is to promote the development of business, industrial level accessibility technologies and services, in order to improve the lives of persons with disabilities and their families through new technologies and the technologies of the information.
CENTAC is structured as a private foundation with a privileged situation between service, Spanish industry,
The Centre is an example of public-private partnership, to count in its patronage with entities such as the Ministry of health, Social Affairs and equality, the Royal Board on disability, El Corte Inglés,
CENTAC has recently released new website (www.centac.es) and has joined Facebook and Twitter.
