Workbook final

002 - IT4Blind, Austrian Computer Society, Austria

ONTACT

Austrian Computer Society/OCG

Mr. Klaus Hoeckner

Austria

+43 664 224 1433

VERALL GOAL

MISSION

The projects developed a scheme for the education of persons, working in the field of IT-Education with blind and

visually impaired persons (VIP), regardless in school or in adult education.

These persons should be certified and be forced to recertify within a certain period with the aim to establish a standard

for the IT-related education for this specific group of learners. For a broader future, the certification scheme could be

rolled out for other types of disabilities, like hard of hearing/deaf persons.

HE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED

to help teachers and persons, that are educating persons with VI and to give them a certificate, that they are well

educated and know the backgrounds and facts about VI as well as Low Vision, Assistive Technologies and institutional

framework in Austria. Stakeholder organisation like the Hilfsgemeinschaft and the Blindenverband as well as blind and

visually impaired persons have been working together in the working group of the OCG to elaborate and plan the

Syllabus, the QTB (Questions and Test Database) and the test situation itself as well as the sample tests.

OUNTRIES IN WHICH IT WAS DEVELOPED

Austria

OUNTRY

COUNTRIES IN WHICH IT IS OPERATING

Austria

ACTS ABOUT SIZE AND SCOPE

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First 8 certificates will be made in October 2015

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see

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At the moment only in Austria

UTLOOK

First certifications in 2012