CEN/TC 428/WG 1 - eAccessibility

This document specifies the knowledges, skills, responsibility and autonomy of ICT experts involved in the development of products and services (including digital contents) to increase the accessibility knowledge in different fields, for different competences and responsibilities.
This document:
—   considers accessibility as "base line" (accessibility has been also recognized in EN 16234-1:2019 as a Transversal aspect);
—   recognizes accessibility as the requirement in procurement for both public and private sectors;
—   provides an overview of useful CEN, ISO and ESCO publications in the field;
—   defines a set of knowledges, skills, responsibility and autonomy for different ICT areas to improve accessibility in the current professional roles and job positions (hardware, software, web);
—   refers to ESCO ICT profiles, that can be adapted for the three main areas: hardware, software, web;
—   refers to W3C activities for define knowledges, skills, responsibility and autonomy in web accessibility role profiles;
—   supports activities for educational providers and exam/certification institutes.
This document should help, for example, to:
—   avoid issues on the definition of third level profiles derived from European ICT Professional Role Profiles without missing accessibility requirements;
—   enable easy application of accessibility related EU-level standards and references from CEN, ISO and ESCO;
—   allow the market to adapt their current job profiles and/or training courses adding the accessibility skills.
This document supports the definition of knowledge and skills for each ICT professional role without creating new ICT role profiles which includes accessibility competences.

This document will provide an “European Professional Ethics Framework for the ICT Profession (EU ICT Ethics)” to support the vision of establishing a profession for the ICT workforce. It will thereby offer the possibility to coalesce other ethics focused initiatives around a common structure.
This ethics framework will be directly linked to EN 16234-1. It will incorporate the structural concept of EN 16234-1 and, in a comparable way, describe a blueprint of what is required and what competencies, skills and knowledge are needed to identify and address the ethical challenges that ICT professionals face in their work.
Therefore it will extend the ethics principles already described in the "Transversal Aspects of the e-Competence Framework" in such a way that concrete requirements and procedures can be defined and implemented in the respective context on the basis of the roles, methods and processes defined in the framework.
The Scope therefore is to crystalize ‘ICT Professional Ethics” into a manageable, structure “European Professional Ethics Framework for the ICT Profession” and to provide guidance on practical application provided by a methodology and application guide that will support the establishment of codes of ethics.