Cooperativa David Chiossone
web and urban accessibility projects
We have a dream: World and internet without barriers!
For e-inclusion of all people in the information society.
For an accessible world.
About us
"The Social Co-operative “David Chiossone” supports and promotes social, educational, sport and working integration of disabled people (most of them blind and partially sighted people). We give advise for the prevention of blindness and sight loss." [ from the Charter of the Cooperative ].
All our efforts, according to the principles of the charter, are focused on the topic of virtual and physical accessibility of technologies, places, events, meetings, etc.
The idea to create a Co-operative that works in this huge confused field comes from these cues: Who, better than those who lives the troubles of handicap day-by-day, can contribute to evaluate accessibility of sites that should be conceived also for them? Who can suggest solutions, give advices, follow the work of programmers at best in order to make everything more accessible?
The members of David Chiossone co-operative are young visually impaired people co-ordinated by a team of experts and operators. Our strength comes also from the fact that the group can profit of the long established experience of “Istituto David Chiossone” (institute for blind in Genova-Italy, www.chiossone.it) and of the multi-centered experience of Agora consortium (www.consorzioagora.it).
In the spirit of the Co-operative we help disabled people to be self-confident and we help to transform their lives through work and support. We work to get a greater social and working integration of disabled people.
The cooperative can offer different solutions based on the technologies and the web, with strong social impact and with a direct participation of the disabled people.
We work for Web and Urban Accessibility
A professional team for web and urban projects:
- Websites and software accessibility.
- Urban accessibility.
- Documents accessibility.
- Training and consulting for professionals, administrators, public or private institutes.
- Keywords of our mission: e-inclusion, disabled people, accessibility, design for all.
- VAMOS! the products for urban accessibility (file
.doc or text only).
The team
We are a team of experts in psychology, ergonomics, assistive technologies, accessibility, among whose members figure people with special needs, physical and sensory disabled; we are available to test or to participate in the software designing and developing. We have expertise in different fields related to accessibility, technologies and disability.