EFE – EXPERTISE FROM EXPERIENCE

Background

Persons with disabilities have fewer opportunities on the employment market. Difficulties to find a suitable job are even higher in remote locations such as the archipelago that have a smaller employment market and challenges related to transportation. At the same time, public authorities in both Åland and the Stockholm region are struggling to fulfil their legal obligations to ensure that their websites and apps are accessible to everyone including persons with disabilities. The project tackles both of these challenges by developing and implementing a novel training program that will provide persons with disabilities key skills needed to support public authorities in their work with web accessibility in both of the regions involved in the project. The key concept of the training program is that the persons with disabilities will build on their own personal experience of inaccessibility to develop expertise in web accessibility that is highly sought-after by public authorities. The cross-border cooperation between the two project partners stem from the necessity to develop a harmonised approach to the training so that it leads to common qualifications across the two regions of Stockholm region and Åland, enabling the persons with disabilities trained in the project to use their newly gained skills on the employment market in both countries. Since the web accessibility legislation is the same in the whole of the EU, there is also great potential to transfer the model of the training, the knowledge and the outputs produced to other parts of the EU.

Activities

  • Development of curriculum for the training course
  • Development of training material
  • Conducting the training course
  • Conducting workplace training
  • Dissemination and communication activities

The main focus of the project was to deliver a comprehensive training programme in web accessibility for individuals with disabilities. Supporting activities were carried out to ensure the effectiveness and reach of the training.

The training curriculum and material are available as resources under “News and Materials”

Information event about the results of the project

On March 21, 2025, a webinar was held in English to present the project results.

If you missed the webinar, you access the recording from the website of Funka Foundation: Expertise based on experience results webinar