Making ITU an accessible organization for persons with disabilities

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Following the adoption of the Accessibility Policy in 2013, ITU has produced an Accessibility Plan, a consolidated plan of activities that will gradually remove existing accessibility barriers in ITU.

The main actions included in the plan include:

• provide basic training in disability awareness for all staff;
• incorporate a reference to reasonable accommodation in registration forms and invitation letters to ITU events and conferences;
• assess the opportunity for improving the efficiency of ITU internal processes regarding the provision of captioning services;
• improving the accessibility of Word documents used in ITU meetings and conferences;
• defining an action plan for the provision of reasonable accommodation during PP14;
• organizing a side-event during PP14 to inform ITU Membership on the implementation of the ITU Accessibility Policy
• organizing a showcase-demos on specific areas related to accessibility;
• setting a process to systematically collect information on needs and preferences of meeting and conference participants concerning accessibility;
• inviting ITU Member States to allocate a budget line for the implementation of the Accessibility Policy in the Union's budget
• conducting an assessment of the level of accessibility of ITU recruitment process;
• adjusting ITU procurement processes to incorporate the accessibility requirements (focus on IT equipment);
• mainstreaming accessibility in ITU programmatic activities.