Towards a Barrier Free Information Society
This paper aims to identify some of the current barriers in the field of information technology across Europe that are faced by pupils with special educational needs and consider some of the steps that are being and still can be taken to work towards the aim of an information society for all that includes them.
The basis for the paper is information from two European Agency initiated projects; the information and communication technology (ICT) in special needs education (SNE) project that provides present state of the art information on ICT in SNE in different 17 European countries and also the SEN-IST-NET project, which is presented here as an example of a practical strategy being taken to try and address some of the issues evident within this area.
