While consensus does not automatically imply correctness, it’s a fair bet that gathering a group of twenty accessibility experts in the same room and asking them what they want to see funded by the EU in the coming years, may very well produce an important research agenda for the future. This was the plan of the EU funded coordinated-action CARDIAC Project, and so at the end of June, approximately 20 project members and invited experts gathered in San Sebastian to decide what was important for the future.

“I took the time to ‘bang-on’ about the convergence of devices and people such that assistive technology would be - in the end - just another user device; pushing the aspects of extreme customisation, adaptation, and personalisation - all of which I think future accessibility issues are really all about.” I was recently in Brussels for a meeting at the EU commission as an invited expert on the eAccessibility2020 project. Now this project has some similarities with work in progress at the W3C WAI RDWG in looking at future accessibility and surrounding issues: