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APPENDIX B
ANNEX I - PROJECT PROGRAMME
WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
DE4105 WAI - TIDE
THE TERMS “ASSOCIATED CONTRACTOR(S)” SHOULD BE TAKEN AS MEANING
“SUBCONTRACTOR(S)” ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 5 OF THE SIGNED CONTRACT.
Commencement date: January 98
Page Numbered 001 through 059
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Content list
Part A - Project Summary
1. Project Summary (including a Project Synopsis of one paragraph) - Form A.1 (for publication)
2. Budget Information - Form A.2
3. Participants List - Form A.3
Part B - Project & Contractor Description
1. Rationale
2. Overall Description
3. Detailed Description
a. List of Work packages (free text)
b. Timing of Work packages
c. Work package Description
4. Project Management
5. Partnership (Key people)
Part C - Project Resources & Deliverables
1. Work package list - Form C.1
2. Work package resources - Form C.2
3 Deliverables list - Form C.3
4. Equipment list - Form C.4
5. Other significant specific project cost - Form C.5
Supporting Information -
Form S1 to S9.
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TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS Programme
Form A: OVERVIEW OF WAI PROJECT
A.1 - Summary Information on the Project
Project Number Acronym - Title
DE4105 WAI WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
Lead sector Other sectors Project Duration
(Initials) in Months
TIDE 18
Project Objectives, Summary description and anticipated results (up to 20 lines):
This concise description should allow a decision maker to see immediately the interest of the project
The World Wide Web is fast becoming the de facto repository of preference for on-line
information, yet the technology of the Web has inadvertently created barriers for people with
disabilities. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) coordinates the evolution of the Web core
protocol (HTTP, HTML, CSS, PICS, etc) and has a mission to "realize the full potential of the
Web". W3C intends to take a leadership role in removing these accessibility barriers and to that
effect, proposes a series of European support action targeting several Web-related activities:
Educational outreach. For technology, tools, and guidelines to be effective, their users (the
application developers, content creators, and hardware designers) must choose to employ them
regularly and correctly.
Accessibility labelling system and database (with active participation by the online disabled
community) and certification tools: to asset the level of accessibility of web pages.
User forum coordination
Publication at various standard level of User interface style-guide for Web browsing tools.
W3C proposes to combine its own membership funds with those of the European Commission to
ensure that W3C staff members who coordinate the evolution of the Web protocols will work
with this European action to ensure that the evolution removes, rather than reinforces,
accessibility barriers.
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Other Characteristics of the Project:
Users involved
Through the creation and coordination of a User forum and labelling system we expect to be able to
not only gather input for the evolution of the Web protocols and languages being developed at W3C
but also to make the people with disabilities judge of the level of accessibility of Web content.
Technologies and/or approach used
The technologies used throughout the action are the core Web technologies such as HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language), CSS (Style Sheet), PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) and the tools
surrounding them.
Expected benefits for the citizens
Once the Web is made accessible through its formats, protocols, tools, and content, a disability,
whether it is permanent (like a visually or hearing impaired person) or temporary (like a person
driving a car or without the proper audio equipment on a computer) should never be a barrier to
accessing the information.
Expected benefits for the users of the application
In the information age, the users of the application, in our case a Web browsing tool, are the same as
the citizens, since everybody will have access to the Web. The benefits are therefore the same as in
above point.
Expected benefits for the European Industries
The growth of the Web and its development as a real economic tool will undoubtedly benefit the
European Industries. The bigger the user base, the better the market.
Contribution to EU-policies
It is a policy of the EU that People with disabilities have equal access to the online information (aka
the Web and the Internet).
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Coordinator:
Name of Institution/Organisation City Region1 Country 2
+ Postal Code
INRIA as 78153 Ile de FR
World Wide Web Le Chesnay France
Consortium Cedex FR1
(W3C)
Contact person from the Coordinating Contractor:
Title, First Name, Dr Daniel Dardailler Address: INRIA/W3C
Name
2004 Route des Lucioles
06902 Sophia-Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel: +33 4 93 65 79 83 Fax: +33 4 93 65 78 22
E-mail 1: danield@w3.org E-mail 2:
Other Contractors:
Participants Name of Institution/Organisation City Region1 Country 2
Code3 + Postal Code
C2 ICS/ Heraklion Kriti GR
FORTH GR 71110
1 See annexed list of regions
2 Please use ISO country codes as described in annexed notes
3 Codes for the participant roles are as follows:
C1 = Coordinator; C = Contractor; A = Associate contractor
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A.2 - Budget Summary Information
Project Number Acronym - Title
DE4105 WAI WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
Human Resources Summary (Person-month)
Total Resources of funded Contractors (13) 488000
Total Resources of funded Associated Contractors 184000
Total Resources of funded Subcontractors
Subtotal Resources of funded Participants 672000
Total Resources of non-funded Contractors (14)
Total Resources of non-funded Associated Contractors
Total Resources of non-funded Subcontractors
Total Resources of Sponsoring Participants
Cost Summary in KECU (all personel costs include overhead)
Person 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. % of EU
Personnel Equipment Third Party Travel and Consumable Other Overheads Funding Contri EU
Participants -month Assistance Subsistence and significant model Total bution Contribution
Code (9) (15) (subcontractors) Computing Specific (S/A) (17)
Project Cost (16)
C1 30 264 22 65 20 17 FC 388 100 388
A 1.1. 7 63 7 FC 70 100 70
A 1.2. 3.5 28 4 FC 32 100 32
A 1.3. 3.5 28 4 FC 32 100 32
Subtotal 1 44 385 22 65 35 17 522 100 522
C2 12 82 15.5 2.5 FC 100 100 100
A 2.1. 4.5 45 5 FC 50 100 50
Subtotal 2 16.5 127 20.5 2.5 150 100 150
Total 60.5 512 22 65 55.5 2.5 17 672 100 672
Total estimated allowable costs (ECU) 672000
EU contribution in % (EU Contribution excluding 100% additional cost * 100 / 100%
Total cost excluding 100 % additional cost)
EU Contribution (ECU) 672000
Estimated contribution from Sponsoring Participants (ECU) 0
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A.3 - Participants List
Project Number Acronym - Title
DE4105 WAI WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
Participants Participant's Institution/Organisation Participant's Country (8)
Code (9) - + Postal Code.
Short Name
C1 World Wide Web Consortium W3C FR 06902
A 1.1. INSERM/BrailleNet INS-BN FR 75252
A 1.2. European Blind Union EBU FR 75007
A 1.3. Royal National Institute for the Blinds RNIB GB PE26XU
C2 Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, FORTH/ICS GR 71110
Institute of Computer Science
A 2.1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR IT 00185
Number of Participants
Number of Contractors (including Co-ordinator) 2
Number of Associated Contractors 4
Number of Subcontractors 0
Number of Sponsoring Participants 0
Total Number of Participants 6
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PART B - Project & Contractor Description
1. RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT (up to 2 pages)
The emergence of the World Wide Web has made it possible for individuals with appropriate
computer and telecommunications equipment to interact as never before. The Web is the stepping
stone, the infrastructure, which will pave the way for next generation interfaces. Part of the W3C's
commitment to realize the full potential of the Web is to promote a high degree of usability for
people with disabilities.
The current situation in that area is not very good and is getting worse everyday as more and more
people rush into the Web business without any awareness of the new limitations and frontiers they
may create. No single disability population is unaffected.
For example:
People who are deaf cannot hear multimedia or audio events that do not contain captioning or
audio descriptions.
People who are blind struggle with the Web's inherent graphical interface, it's graphic-based
content, and any Web protocol or application that cannot easily be rendered or accessed using
audio, braille, large text or synthetic voice.
People who are physically challenged have difficulty using certain hardware devices or web
controls, including Web kiosks and WebTV.
People who are cognitive and visually impaired have difficulties interpreting most web pages
because they have not been designed with this population in mind.
Worldwide, there are more than 750 million people with disabilities. A significant percentage of
that population is affected by the emergence of the Web, directly or indirectly. For those without
disabilities, the Web is a new technology that can help unify geographically dispersed groups. But
these barriers put the Web in danger of disenfranchising people with disabilities in this emerging
infrastructure.
Furthermore, even those without disabilities would benefit from many changes motivated by the
needs of people with disabilities. When driving a car, for example, the driver may wish to browse
the Web for information (movie schedules, etc.) using a voice-based interface similar to that used
by the blind.
This proposal, called "Web Accessibility Initiative" (WAI), is a support action whose goal is to
make the Internet, aka the Web, more accessible to all users with disabilities.
It is lead by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international vendor-neutral
organization which fosters the evolution of the major Web protocol and format specifications, and
whose goal is to realise the full potential of the Web (a long description is provided later on in the
proposal).
W3C is currently starting a new major activity in this area, funded on its own, that includes a
strong technological group working on the accessibility of the core Web formats such as HTML,
HTTP, and CSS and also incorporates work on a set of guidelines accompanying the technologies
and the tools that are using them (Web browsing tools, HTML authoring tools, etc).
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This TIDE proposal would complement this technical work by addressing the content providers,
the people that create and distribute the information, and in order to do that, we need to raise the
awareness, and educate them in as many ways as we can (including rating campaign).
This European TIDE proposal, if funded, will focus on the European Web content providers and
market. As global as the Internet and the Web are, there is still a clear need for "local" actions when
content providers are the target. A similar fund raising activity for education and dissemination is
being persued by W3C for the Americas and the Pacific rim. We think all these actions are required
for the Web as a whole to become more accessible.
2. OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT (up to 8 pages)
2.1 Objectives of the Project
Working on evolving the Web technologies in the most interoperable and accessible way has
always been and still is W3C's mission. Solving the technical issues is necessary but is not
sufficient if we want to really succeed in making the Web and the Internet accessible universally.
We have to address the content providers, the people that create and distribute the information,
and in order to do that, we need to raise the awareness, and educate them in as many ways as we
can (including rating campaign).
The Web is rapidly becoming the interface of choice to get access to information worldwide. There
are millions of pages of data available today on the Internet and Electronic commerce widespread
adoption is
the next step.
One important thing to mention is that the Internet and the Web are becoming more and more
critical as a social resource: job posting or university course descriptions are good examples of
things that some organizations are starting to only distribute via the Web.
Over the next few years, accessing the web to do shopping or get the weather forecast is going to
be as natural as doing shopping in the supermarket or watching/hearing TV/radio.
The impact of this project on the users with disabilities is to give them the same access to
information as users without a disability.
In addition, if we succeed making web accessibility the norm rather than the exception, this will
benefit not only the disability community but the entire population. For instance, people wanting
to browse the web through a telephone or in a car, with no screen feedback, are in a sense
temporary blind and the development of voice-based interface will benefit them as well. Another
example is web users using very slow link to the Internet (an economic problem likely), and for
which heavy graphical images are a too expensive: widespread adoption of descriptive text added
to images would allow them to get access to the same pages with no or little loss of information.
2.2 Knowledge and Technology to be Used
In terms of data formats the state of the art is HTML4 (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS2
(Cascading Style Sheet), which are both controlled by W3C and which are evolving in parallel to
this project and in close contact with the developers (in fact the technical manager for the
evolution of these formats regarding accessibility at W3C is going to be active as well in this TIDE
proposal).
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The clear message that we want to convey is the following: content on the web must be separated
in the structure and the text on one side (what is a TITLE, a bullet LIST) and the presentation made
out of it (rendered on a graphical screen, a dumb terminal, using a voice synthesizer, or a Braille
device).
Not only this is good for accessibility, but this is good for the management of information itself: by
virtue of this separation content/style, one can evolve the two sides separately: change the text
without touching the style (the color used, the fonts, etc) and more importantly change the style
without changing the content and
sharing one style for multiple different content.
There are very good economic reasons for separating the style out of the web content and HTML,
as an SGML application, is perfectly suited to achieve this goal.
On other words, we really want to convince information providers that if they just do their job
well, then in addition it will be accessible to all.
Of course, information on the Web is not just text and HTML: there are images, video, audio clip,
or programs (like Java applet being downloaded by users).
The strategy here is called Alternative description: for instance for image, there is HTML attribute
that allows content providers to describe the image in words, that can in turn be spoken or
rendered on a one line telephone screen.
One goal of the W3C is to make sure all formats used on the Web, and that include multi-media
formats such as video and audio, allow room for accessibility hooks and alternative delivery. For
instance, the OBJECT tag being added to HTML should allow for descriptive text to be used as a
replacement of any given data format being presented to the user.
This, and much more, will have to be taught to the people creating content.
In terms of browsing and authoring tools, there are products available from several software
companies available on the market and one of the first action this project will conduct is a study of
the existing base. The goal here is to educate tool providers regarding the style-guide that the users
are expecting.
In terms of certification and rating, it's a very novel area where a couple of HTML validator exists
but where most of the work (especially regarding rating system and labelling) is going to be
innovative.
2.3 Methodology of the Project
One important aspect of this project is that of education and awareness.
We do not seek to only enhance the format used on the Web (HTML, CSS, etc) but to go after the
content providers, either directly or indirectly (through the tool and service providers they use) so
that design of accessible web pages become the default case and the format extensions are put at
use.
Therefore, we can say that the intended size of the application population and area if that of the
Web.
In addition to the education and dissemination actions targeted at the largest content providers in
Europe, we will also develop specific application domain site to illustrate good design.
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Our market is the online market, aka the Internet or the Web, and it is still in rapid expansion. We
think that with a very focused action over 18 months, we can succeed in making the Information
Society accessible for the years to come.
2.5 Dependencies
Web related projects are common nowadays in Europe and worldwide, and we expect that the
result of our action will impact them in a way to make their sites more accessible.
One of the thing we will promote and suggest as an awareness action during the project that a
certain level of accessibility be made a requirement for EC projects generating web content. This
will act as a good incentive for widespread adoption of accessibility design on the web.
2.7 European Added Value
2.8 Economic and Social Impact
The Web is global by nature and the players in the field of accessibility comes not only from all
across Europe but worldwide. Through W3C, we expect to leverage that worldwide expertise and
cooperate closely with non-European players. From W3C point of view, this proposal comes as
complement of a wider scale initiative gathering experts worldwide in the field of Web
Accessibility.
But of course, there are individual persons and organizations behind any web pages, whether
authored by hand or automatically generated, and these human beings live in a given nation, not
in a virtual world. With this TIDE proposal, we want to give our focus on the Europe's
Information society.
In terms of economic impact, it's clear that giving access to the web to an entire section of the
population (people with disability) will help the development of the information society just by
bringing in more users.
In terms of social policies, this is basic non-discrimination, that some countries have already made
into legislation, which is providing additional motivation to build accessibility into the Web's
infrastructure. These legal standards and requirements (current and proposed) already exist in the
US and other national laws. There is work in Europe to extend the national laws into a pan-
European framework that would, presumably, also be considered for adoption worldwide.
Part of our education/awareness effort will aim at raising the visibility of these European
legislation to the disabled users of the technologies (by hosting a web site with reference
information).
There are several projects, European and worldwide, that already have expertise in the field of
Web access to people with disabilities (TEDIS, ACTS Avanti, University Leuven, Industrial - COST
219, Trace, CAST, DOIT, ICADD, etc).
The partners in this proposal have very good links to these past or current efforts and one of our
first activity will be to gather as much input as possible for the education aspect and to create a
technical forum where existing team can participate in the elaboration of the specific awareness
planning and materials.
As mentioned in the introduction, W3C is starting a separate major new technical activity in this
area and this is obviously a project with which coordination is going to be critical. Thru the W3C
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own forum, we expect to gather input from its European and worldwide industrial membership,
as well as from the US organizations that are active in this area.
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3. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
3.1 List of Work-Packages
This TIDE proposal complements this technical work and includes three workpackages and a
cross-workpackage activity (in addition to the Project Management WP01).
WP02: an education/dissemination/awareness workpackage whose goal is to promote the
realization of accessible content.
WP03: a certification/rating workpackage that will use the PICS technology to create a
classification system assessing the level of accessibility of Web pages.
WP04: a standardization workpackage to ensure that the Web related access technologies move
forward in the official standard bodies such as ISO or EEC.
WP05: the creation of online User forum to be used across workpackages where the disabilities
community will be involved in the elaboration of the materials issued in the above
workpackages.
3.4 Description of Work-Packages (maximum 1 page per Work-Package)
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B1 - Work package Description
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
WP01 Work Package TITLE: Project Management
ID
WP W3C STAR t0 END t0+18 DUR 18
LEAD T
TOTAL Person/Month 9 TOTAL KECU 105.8
Objectives:
The objective of the management workpackage is to ensure that the workplan, targets, milestones
and deliverables are met within the agreed time and cost schedules.
Work Description (Methodology / Technical Approach):
The co-ordinating partner who will provide the project management will also provide the
technical management of the project. No distinction is made in this package. Consequently, in
addition to overall management tools, two other issues are addressed : the definition of common
methodologies across the project, and quality control & assurance. Most of the management will
be done using day-to-day electronic means between the partners, using a mailing list set up by the
co-ordinating contractor.In addition, conference calls and face-to-face meeting will be scheduled
on a regular basis to ensure the proper advance of the work.
A Project Steering Committee will be set-up that consists of the two main contractor managers,
together with one representative of each associated contractor and a Quality Panel representative.
It is responsible for the overall strategy. It also has specific responsibility for ensuring that
recommendations of the Quality Panel are adhered to by the Workpackage managers doing the
technical and awareness developments and dissemination.
Meetings will review progress, accept and sign off deliverables, reports and demonstrators, and
identify and carry out any replanning of the project. These meetings will normally be a minimum
of one-day duration. At technical meetings, each package that is ongoing will present its findings
to date together with plans for future work. The aim of these technical meetings will be to bring
the project together at regular intervals to allow partners to benefit from the progress being made
in different areas of the project.
Deliverables:
D1: Project Reference Guide (Month 3)
D2, D3, D4: Interim Reports, Meetings (Month 6, 12, 15)
D5: Final Report (Month 18)
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Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
WP02 Work Package TITLE: Education/Awareness Campaign
ID
WP W3C STAR T0+3 END t0+15 DUR 12
LEAD T
TOTAL Person/Month 16.5 TOTAL KECU 217.5
Objectives:
The goal of this work-package is to promote the realization of accessible content throughout the
Web.
Work Description (Methodology / Technical Approach):
This need to be done using education means (teach the content providers how to create accessible
content), dissemination of information (guidelines helping the authoring phases) and awareness
(constantly remind new players of the issues involved). In order to reach our goal, we need to
target different audiences.
The content providers are of course our first target, and "in fine" our only target, since they will
eventually decide what to put on the pages.
But for doing so, they use, listen, and are influenced by, several other actors: authoring tool
vendors, web site designers, web-design educators, the press and the users base.
In order to reach all these communities, we have to target our effort along a series of events:
presentations/talks in major Web related conferences, organizations of free seminars at these
conferences or isolated, direct contact and awareness action with major European web site
providers, addition of accessibility "modules" in the curriculum of the major authoring tools
educational process, direct contact and lobby with the major authoring tool providers, submission
of papers in specialized and regular press.
Deliverables:
D1: Report on presentation/talks/seminar made.
D2: Accessibility modules for authoring tools.
D3: Education guideline materials (Markup, Browser).
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Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
WP03 Work Package TITLE: Rating/Certification System
ID
WP W3C STAR t0 END t0+18 DUR 18
LEAD T
TOTAL Person/Month 13 TOTAL KECU 146
Objectives:
This work package deals with a novel idea which will use the result of the latest development in
the area of Web information access: the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS).
Work Description (Methodology / Technical Approach):
It's about creating a new descriptive rating vocabulary to assess the level of accessibility of Web
pages and putting it at work with users in a small pilot phase involving a community of people
with disabilities.
PICS is an infrastructure for associating labels (meta-data) with Internet content. It was originally
designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also
facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing, privacy, or intellectual property rights
management. We want to create another use for PICS: Level of Accessibility of Web Content.
As the PICS syntax and architecture evolves under the auspice of W3C, the system developed by
this work package will be adapted to meet the new requirements.
Deliverables:
D1: PICS compliant Rating System to assess Accessibility level of Web pages (month 6)
D2: Integration in PC platforms. (month 12)
D3: Pilot Label database on the Internet (month 12)
D4: Operational Label Bureau (month 18)
For the last three deliverables, an online demonstration will be available to test the system.
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Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
WP04 Work Package TITLE: Standardization
ID
WP ICS/FORTH STAR t0 END t0+18 DUR 18
LEAD T
TOTAL Person/Month 16.5 TOTAL KECU 149.9
Objectives:
To identify and assess the international state of the art with regards to current (on-going) and
future standardisation, identify requirements for accessibility and develop recommendations,
disseminate the results to the relevant national, European and International standardisation
bodies.
Work Description (Methodology / Technical Approach):
In order to determine precisely what could be the scope of any future standardisation activities
regarding accessibility of Web-based interactive applications and services, a thorough
investigation will be undertaken covering the broad international state of the art.
This task will also be concerned with the identification of unified interaction requirements in Web-
based applications and services. Based on such requirements, we will then derive
recommendations and guidelines towards unified interaction in the Web; facilitation of accessible
and high quality interfaces for user with different requirements, abilities and preferences,
including disabled and elderly (i.e. following the concept of design for all).
Deliverables:
D.1 : Report on data collection methods and data analysis (Month 12)
D.2 : Draft report on standardisation guidelines for the accessibility of Web-based applications and
services by people with disabilities. (Month 15)
D.3 : Report on standardisation guidelines for the accessibility of Web-based applications and
services by people with disabilities. (Month 18)
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Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
WP05 Work Package TITLE: User Forum
ID
WP W3C STAR t0+6 END t0+18 DUR 12
LEAD T
TOTAL Person/Month 5.5 TOTAL KECU 52.8
Objectives:
This activity will focus on the creation and the maintenance of an online user forum to be used by
the project workpackages to gather user needs and requirements.
Work Description (Methodology / Technical Approach):
Both BrailleNet/INSERM, RNIB and EBU will participate in the elaboration of this forum, which
will take place using a regular electronic mailing list and a set of web pages.
The responsibilities of the user organizations in this activity is to make sure the end-users are
represented and actively participate in all the phase of the projects.
W3C will also participate in managing this forum and keeping consistent and synchronize it with
its existing set of forum.
Additional users organizations (gathering disabillities other than visually impaired) will be asked
to join this forum as the project moved forward.
Deliverables:
D1, D2, D3: Report on User forum setup and activity (Month 6, 12, 18). Access will be given to the archives
and the forum itself to the commission reviewers.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT (up to 4 pages)
Project Internal Management
A Project Steering Committee will be set-up that consists of the two main contractor managers,
together with one representative of each associated contractor and a Quality Panel representative.
It is responsible for the overall strategy. It also has specific responsibility for ensuring that
recommendations of the Quality Panel are adhered to by the Workpackage managers doing the
technical and awareness developments and dissemination.
Meetings will review progress, accept and sign off deliverables, reports and demonstrators, and
identify and carry out any replanning of the project. These meetings will normally be a minimum
of one-day duration.
At technical meetings, each package that is ongoing will present its findings to date together with
plans for future work. The aim of these technical meetings will be to bring the project together at
regular intervals to allow partners to benefit from the progress being made in different areas of the
project.
Electronic Mailing lists and a Web site, hosted at W3C, will be used as the day-to-day
management vehicle.
W3C will act as the overall project management contact and will be responsible to communicating
the report s and deliverables to the Commission.
Reports and deliverables will preferably be made available to the Commision using Electronic
Mail and Web downloading site.
There is no Intellectual Property Right associated with this project. All the deliverables are for
general Public access.
5 THE PARTNERSHIP (CONSORTIUM) (up to 1 page per participant)
This proposal is made in partnership by six non-for-profit organizations.
The roles and responsibilities of the participants are as follow:
W3C (hosted in France, but really a European and Worldwide consortium), as coordinator,
mostly responsible for the education/awareness the certification work, and overall
management.
ICS/FORTH (Greece) and CNR (Italy), to work on technology usage guidelines and their
evolution in the standard bodies
BrailleNet/INSERM (France), EBU (Europe) and RNIB (GB) as an associate contractors with
W3C representing the user community and participating in the elaboration of the online user
forum, the education materials, and
as input on the technology requirements.
World Wide Web Consortium [W3C] Backgrounder
W3C's mission: Realizing the Full Potential of the Web
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The W3C was founded to develop common protocols to enhance the interoperability and lead the
evolution of the World Wide Web.
Uniquely Positioned to Lead the Evolution of the World Wide Web
Leading the World Wide Web's evolution means staying ahead of a significant wave of
applications, services, and social changes. For W3C to effectively lead such dramatic growth -- at a
time when a "Web Year" has shortened to a mere three months -- it must demonstrate exceptional
agility, focus and diplomacy. To this end, the Consortium fulfills a unique combination of roles
traditionally ascribed to quite different organizations.
Like its partner standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force [IETF], W3C is committed to
developing open, technically sound specifications backed by running sample code. Like other
information technology consortia, W3C represents the power and authority of hundreds of
developers, researchers, and users. Hosted by research organizations, the Consortium is able to
leverage the most recent advances in information technology.
Host Institutions
The W3C was formally launched in October 1994 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT LCS]. Moving beyond the Americas, the Consortium
established a European presence in partnership with France's National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control [INRIA] in April 1995. As the Web's influence continued to
broaden internationally, the resulting growth in W3C Membership created the need for an Asian
host. In Sept 1996, Keio University in Japan became the Consortium's third host institution.
Members
The Consortium's real strength lies in the broad technical expertise of its Membership. W3C
currently has now close to 200 commercial and academic Members worldwide, including
hardware and software vendors, telecommunications companies, content providers, corporate
users, and government and academic entities.
W3C provides a vendor-neutral forum for its Members to address Web-related issues. Working
together with its staff and the global Web community, the Consortium aims to produce free,
interoperable specifications and sample code. Funding from Membership dues, public research
funds, and external contracts underwrite these efforts.
The Consortium's Advisory Committee [AC] is comprised of one official representative from each
Member organization who serves as the primary liaison between the organization and W3C. The
Advisory Committee's role is to offer advice on the overall progress and direction of the
Consortium.
Staff
W3C is led by Director Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web; and Chairman Jean-
François Abramatic. With more than 30 years' combined expertise in a wide array of computer-
related fields, including real-time communications, graphics, and text and image processing.
Berners-Lee and Abramatic are well prepared to lead the Consortium's efforts in spearheading the
global evolution of the Web.
The Consortium's technical staff includes full- and part-time employees, visiting engineers from
Member organizations, consultants, and students from more than 13 countries worldwide. W3C
ANNEX 1 Part B - Project & Participant Description 21
staff works with the Advisory Committee, the press, and the broader Web community to promote
W3C's agenda.
Recommendation Process
Specifications developed within the Consortium must be formally approved by the Membership.
Consensus is reached after a specification has proceeded through the review stages of Working
Draft, Proposed Recommendation, and Recommendation. As new issues arise from Members,
resources are reallocated to new areas to ensure that W3C remains focused on topics most critical
to the Web's interoperability and growth.
Domains
Leading the evolution of technology as dramatically in flux as the World Wide Web is a
challenging task indeed. W3C is a unique organization, well adapted to today's fast-paced
environment. Its mission is to realize the full potential of the Web: as an elegant machine-to-
machine system, as a compelling human-to-human interface, and as an efficient human-human
communications medium. In order to achieve these goals, W3C's Team of experts works with its
Members to advance the state of the art in each of the three Domains: User Interface, Technology
& Society, and Architecture. Each Domain is responsible for investigating and leading
development in several Activity Areas which are critical to the Web's global evolution and
interoperability.
W3C web site is http://www.w3.org
European Blind Union [EBU] Backgrounder
EBU is a non-governmental and non-profit making European organisation, founded in 1984. It is
the principal organisation representing the interests of blind and partially sighted people in
Europe with membership made up or organisations of and for visually impaired (VI) people in 43
European countries. EBU has formal consultative status as the co-ordinating NGO for the visual
impairment sector on the European Disability Forum in Brussels.
Royal National Institute for the Blind [RNIB] Backgrounder
RNIB is the largest organisation in the UK looking after the needs of visually impaired people,
with over 60 services. Current reappraisal of its work has led to services being increasingly
considered in terms of supplying the needs of visually-impaired people at every stage of their
lives and in various aspects. The organisation employs around 2500 people based throughout the
UK, of whom 7% are visually-impaired. RNIB has already been involved as a partner in the CAPS
(136/218) and Harmony (1226) projects.
This work will be greatly enhanced by the recent approval of the TIDE ARTNet (3006) project
which will build an international digital network for assistive and rehabilitation technology.
Apart from CAPS, Harmony and ARTNet, RNIB has also been involved with a number of other
TIDE and Telematics projects: ASHORED (101), AUDETEL (169/212), GUIB (103/215),
CORE(126/213), ACCESS(1001), SATURN(1040), MOBIC(1148) and OPEN(1182). These have
shown the technical knowledge which can be accessed by the organisation and have developed an
understanding of how to assess user needs and wants."
RNIB web site is http://www.rnib.org.uk
BrailleNet/INSERM Backgrounder
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INSERM/Braillenet is a french consortium whose mission is to to promote the Internet for social,
professional, and school integration of visually impaired people.
Objectives:
Improve Internet access for visually impaired people
Development of pilot web site, containing specific services
Explore tele-working and education thru Internet
Disseminate result of work to end-users.
Partners
The BrailleNet/INSERM consortium regroups:
INSERM (French National Institure on Medical Research)
EUROBRAILLE (first maker of Braille terminals)
AFEI (specialized in the formation of visually impaired people)
CNEFEI (specialized in the formation of teachers)
ANPEA (National Association of Parents of Visually Impaired Children)
FAF (Federation of Blind and Visually Impaires in France)
BrailleNet/INSERM web site is http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/BrailleNet/consbrn.html
National Research Council (CNR) Backgrounder
The National Research Council (CNR, Italy) is a government research organisation (staff of about
7000), which is involved in activities addressing most disciplinary sectors (physics, chemistry,
medicine, agriculture, etc), in cooperation with universities and industry (one of its tasks being the
transfer of innovations to production and services).
CNR will participate in this project proposal with two Institutes: IROE (Firenze) and CNUCE
(Pisa). IROE, with a staff of about 100 (half of whom are researchers) has a broad range of
activities in pure physics (solid state, cosmology, optics) and applied physics (electromagnetic
wave propagation, communications, integrated optics, optical fibre, remote sensing, etc). The
Department on Information Theory and Processing is involved in research on the theory and
applications of signal and image processing and information technology. It has a extensive
experience in accessibility and usability. CNUCE, with a staff of 107, conducts research on
Methods and Models for the Design and Analysis of Systems, Multimedia Technology,
Geographical Information Systems, Mechanics of Materials, and Flight Dynamics of Spacecrafts. In
relation to the project proposal, CNUCE is conducting research in 3D virtual environments and
modelling, knowledge integration, agent architectures and user modelling.
CNR Web site is at http://www.cnr.it/
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Backgrounder
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH, Greece), is a centre for research and
development monitored by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Technology (General Secretariat
of Research and Technology) of the Greek Government. The Institute of Computer Science, one of
the seven institutes of FORTH, conducts applied research, develops applications and products,
and provides services. Current R&D activities focus on information systems, software engineering,
parallel architectures and distributed systems, computer vision and robotics, digital
communications, network management, machine learning, decision support systems, formal
ANNEX 1 Part B - Project & Participant Description 23
methods in concurrent systems, computer architectures and VLSI design, computer aided design,
medical information systems, human-computer interaction, and rehabilitation tele-informatics.
ICS-FORTH has a long research and development tradition in the design and development of user
interfaces that are accessible and usable by a wide range of people, including disabled and elderly
people. It has recently proposed the concept, and provided the technical framework for the
development of unified user interfaces, that are adaptable to the abilities, requirements and
preferences of the end user groups.
ICS/FORTH web site is at http://www.ics.forth.gr/
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Part C - Project Resources & Deliverables
C.1 Work-Package List
Project N° Acronym Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI ........of..........
Work- Title Lead pms Start End Phas Deliv-
Package Contractor Month Month e erable
ID ID IDs
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (7)
(6)
WP01.
WP01 Project Management W3C 9 01 18 1-5
WP02.
WP02 Education/Awareness W3C 16.5 04 15 1-3
WP03.
WP03 Rating/Certification W3C 13 01 18 1-4
WP04.
WP04 Standardization ICS 16.5 01 18 1-3
WP05.
WP05 Users Forum W3C 5.5 06 18 1-3
TOTAL
Notes
(1) ID of the form: 'WPn' where n = 01- ~10
(2) Responsible contractor for the work (see form A.2)
(3) pms = Total direct labour in person months (for AC partners both additional labour and self financed full time staff)
(4) Of the form: 'n' where n = 01 - ~ 36 i.e. project month not calendar months
(5) Ref. Work Programme Project Life-Cycle: 1 = 'Identify User needs' : 2 = 'Functional Specification' : 3 = 'Demonstrator build' : 4a
= 'Validation - verification' : 4b = 'Validation - demonstration' : 5 = Exploitation Plan
(6) ID of the form 'Dn.m' where n = n in 'WPn' : m = deliverable number for that work package i.e. m = 1 - <total number of
deliverables in WPn>
ANNEX 1 Part B - Project & Participant Description 25
Project N° Acronym Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI ........of..........
Work-Package ID1 Title Starting Event2
WP01 Project Management Deliverable 1
Participants Labour category3 Rate Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Total
Code Code pms4 pms pms pms pms pms
W3C Researcher 1 6 3 9
TOTAL5 6 3 9
TOTAL to A2, S16 6 3 9
TOTAL to S97
Work-Package ID8 Title Starting Event9
WP02 Education/Awareness Deliverable 1
Campaign
Participants Labour category10 Rate Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Total
Code Code pms11 pms pms pms pms pms
W3C Researcher 1 12 12
1 ID of the form: 'WPn' where n = 01- ~10
2 Either a project date, e.g. Commencement Date + 3 months - or Deliverable 01.1
3 As in form reference S 2
4 pms = direct labour in person months (for contrcators using Additiona Cost Model, both additional and self financed
labour).
5 Total direct labour both self-financed and additional for contrcators using the additional cost model
6 Total of direct labour for contrcators using the full cost model and the additional direct labour for contrcators
using the additional cost model. Total to be transferred to forms A2 and S1s.
7 The efforts put into the work package by permanent staff for contrcators using the additional cost model and
for sponsoring partners
8 ID of the form: 'WPn' where n = 01- ~10
9 Either a project date, e.g. Commencement Date + 3 months - or Deliverable 01.1
10 As in form reference S 2
11 pms = direct labour in person months (for contrcators using Additiona Cost Model, both additional and self financed
labour).
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INS-BN Researcher 1 2 2
RNIB Researcher 1 1.5 1.5
EBU Researcher 1 1 1
TOTAL1 16.5 16.5
TOTAL to A2, S12 16.5 16.5
TOTAL to S93
Work-Package ID4 Title Starting Event5
WP03 Rating/Certification Deliverable 1
Participants Labour category6 Rate Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Total
Code Code pms7 pms pms pms pms pms
W3C Researcher 1 6 3 9
INS-BN Researcher 1 1 1 2
RNIB Researcher 1 0.5 0.5 1
EBU Researcher 1 0.5 0.5 1
TOTAL8 8 5 13
TOTAL to A2, S19 8 5 13
1 Total direct labour both self-financed and additional for contrcators using the additional cost model
2 Total of direct labour for contrcators using the full cost model and the additional direct labour for contrcators
using the additional cost model. Total to be transferred to forms A2 and S1s.
3 The efforts put into the work package by permanent staff for contrcators using the additional cost model and
for sponsoring partners
4 ID of the form: 'WPn' where n = 01- ~10
5 Either a project date, e.g. Commencement Date + 3 months - or Deliverable 01.1
6 As in form reference S 2
7 pms = direct labour in person months (for contrcators using Additiona Cost Model, both additional and self financed
labour).
8 Total direct labour both self-financed and additional for contrcators using the additional cost model
9 Total of direct labour for contrcators using the full cost model and the additional direct labour for contrcators
using the additional cost model. Total to be transferred to forms A2 and S1s.
ANNEX 1 Part B - Project & Participant Description 27
TOTAL to S91
Work-Package ID2 Title Starting Event3
WP04 Standardization Deliverable 1
Participants Labour category4 Rate Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Total
Code Code pms5 pms pms pms pms pms
ICS Researcher 1 9 3 12
CNR Researcher 1 3 1.5 4.5
TOTAL6 12 4.5 16.5
TOTAL to A2, S17 12 4.5 16.5
TOTAL to S98
Work-Package ID9 Title Starting Event10
WP05 Users Forum Deliverable 1
Participants Labour category11 Rate Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Total
Code Code pms1 pms pms pms pms pms
1 The efforts put into the work package by permanent staff for contrcators using the additional cost model and
for sponsoring partners
2 ID of the form: 'WPn' where n = 01- ~10
3 Either a project date, e.g. Commencement Date + 3 months - or Deliverable 01.1
4 As in form reference S 2
5 pms = direct labour in person months (for contrcators using Additiona Cost Model, both additional and self financed
labour).
6 Total direct labour both self-financed and additional for contrcators using the additional cost model
7 Total of direct labour for contrcators using the full cost model and the additional direct labour for contrcators
using the additional cost model. Total to be transferred to forms A2 and S1s.
8 The efforts put into the work package by permanent staff for contrcators using the additional cost model and
for sponsoring partners
9 ID of the form: 'WPn' where n = 01- ~10
10 Either a project date, e.g. Commencement Date + 3 months - or Deliverable 01.1
11 As in form reference S 2
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INS-BN Researcher 1 2 1 3
RNIB Researcher 1 0.5 0.5 1
EBU Researcher 1 1 0.5 1.5
TOTAL2 3.5 2 5.5
TOTAL to A2, S13 3.5 2 5.5
TOTAL to S94
1 pms = direct labour in person months (for contrcators using Additiona Cost Model, both additional and self financed
labour).
2 Total direct labour both self-financed and additional for contrcators using the additional cost model
3 Total of direct labour for contrcators using the full cost model and the additional direct labour for contrcators
using the additional cost model. Total to be transferred to forms A2 and S1s.
4 The efforts put into the work package by permanent staff for contrcators using the additional cost model and
for sponsoring partners
ANNEX 1 Part B - Project & Participant Description 29
C.3 Deliverables List
Project N° Acronym Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI ........of..........
Deliverable Title Delivery Nature Dis- Type
ID date semination PD or X
(1) (2) (3) Level (5)
(4)
D1.1 Project Reference Guide 3 RE PU PD
D1.2 Interim Report 6 RE PU PD
D1.3 Interim Report 12 RE PU PD
D1.4 Interim Report 15 RE PU PD
D1.5 Final Report 18 RE PU PD
D2.1 Presentation/Talk/Seminar made 15 RE PU PD
D2.2 Accessibility modules 15 RE PU PD
D2.3 Education guideline materials 15 RE/ PU PD
SP
D3.1 PICS compliant Rating System 6 RE/ PU PD
SP
D3.2 Integration in PC platforms 12 RE/ PU PD
PR
D3.3 Pilot Label database 12 RE/ PU PD
PR
D3.4 Operational Label Bureau 18 RE/ PU PD
PR
D4.1 Data collection and analysis 12 RE PU PD
D4.2 Draft Standard guidelines 15 RE PU PD
D4.3 Standardization guidelines 18 RE PU PD
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D5.1 User Forum Set-up 6 RE PU PD
D5.2 User Forum Activity 12 RE/ PU PD
PR
D5.3 User Forum Activity 18 RE/ PU PD
PR
Notes
(1) ID of the form 'Dn.m' where n = n in 'WPn' : n = number of the work package and m = deliverable number for that work package
i.e. m = 1 - <total number of deliverables in WPn> - in chronological order down the page
(2) of the form: 'n' where n = 01 - ~ 36 i.e. project not calendar months
(3) PR = Prototype (Demonstrator) : RE = Report : SP = Specification : TO = Tool : OT = Other.
PR, TO & OT will have an associated document for contractual purposes. All deliverables will be accompanied by a 'peer'
review report
(4) PU = Public Usage of the result : LI = limited to programme participants : RP = restricted to project participants (Public
documents shall be of a professional standard in a form suitable for publication)
(5) PD = A 'Project deliverable' as defined in Article 4 of the contract : X = Submitted on request deliverables where appropriate
available for review or dissemination purposes limited to participants of the TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS Programme
ANNEX 1 Part B - Project & Participant Description 31
C.4 Equipment List
Project N° Acronym Sheet
........of..........
Description Month Cost Depre- % alloc. Resp. Amount to
of ECU ciation to contractor be allowed
purchase period project ID ECU
(1) (2) (2) (3) (2)
Total
Notes
(1) of the form: 'n' where n = 01 - ~ 36 i.e. project month not calendar months
(2) For allowable costs calculation see Article 19.2 of Annex II
(3) Responsible contractor for purchasing the equipment
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C.5 Other Significant Specific Project Costs
Project N° Acronym Sheet
........of..........
Description Resp. Amount to
contractor be allowed
ID ECU
(1) (2)
TOTAL:
Notes
(1) Responsible contractor for purchasing the specific items
(2) For allowable costs see Article 19.6 of Annex II
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Supporting Information
Supporting Information - Financial justifications
1. Budget information per Year- Form S.1 ( A.2 per year)
2. Labour rates - Form S.2
3. Confidentiality and IPR handling - Form S.3
4. Participants details - Form S.4
5. Contractual and banking information - Form S.5
6. Full list of Validation Sites - Form S.6
7. Budget Information for the Demonstration Work - Form S.7
8. Effort and Cost summary of self investment for AC contrcators and Sponsoring Partners
- Form S.8
9. Source of Finance - Form S.9
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Form S.1 Cost Summary per year in ECU
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Year 1
Person 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. % of EU
Personnel Equipment Third Party Travel and Consumable Other Overheads Funding Contri EU
Participants -month Assistance Subsistence and significant model Total bution Contribution
Code (9) (15) (subcontractors) Computing Specific (S/A) (17)
Project Cost (16)
C1 24 198 16 65 10 11 FC 300 100 300
A 1.1. 5 45 3 FC 48 100 48
A 1.2. 2.5 20 2 FC 22 100 22
A 1.3. 2.5 20 2 FC 22 100 22
Subtotal 1 34 283 16 65 17 11 392 100 392
C2 9 61 8 1.5 FC 70.5 100 70.5
A 2.1. 3 30 3 FC 33 100 33
Subtotal 2 12 91 11 1.5 101.5 100 101.5
Total 46 374 16 65 28 1.5 11 495.5 100 495.5
Year 2
Person 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. % of EU
Personnel Equipment Third Party Travel and Consumable Other Overheads Funding Contri EU
Participants -month Assistance Subsistence and significant model Total bution Contribution
Code (9) (15) (subcontractors) Computing Specific (S/A) (17)
Project Cost (16)
C1 6 66 6 10 6 FC 88 100 88
A 1.1. 2 18 4 FC 22 100 22
A 1.2. 1 8 2 FC 10 100 10
A 1.3. 1 8 2 FC 10 100 10
Subtotal 1 10 100 6 18 6 130 100 130
C2 3 21 7.5 1 FC 29.5 100 29.5
A 2.1. 1.5 15 2 FC 17 100 17
Subtotal 2 4.5 36 9.5 1 46.5 100 46.5
Total 14.5 136 6 27.5 1 6 176.5 100 176.5
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 35
S 2 - Labour Rates and Overheads
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Contractor Code: C1
Organisation Name:Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
National Currency: FRF Conversion Rate: 6.6
Yearly Yearly
Hourl Hourly Direct Yearly Direct Yearly
Name or Rate y Overhea Perso Labour Overhea Labour Overhea
Yea Category Code Rate d Rate n Cost d Cost Cost d costs
r (Nat. (Nat. Hours (Nat. (Nat. (ECU) (ECU)
Curr.) Curr.) Curr.) Curr.)
1 Researcher 1 215 215 4056 871200 871200 132000 132000
2 Researcher 1 215 215 4056 217800 217800 33000 33000
Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....100........ %
Person Year: 12 Person Months: 21.67 Person Day: 7.8
Number of Person Months Number of Person Days Number of Hours
Person- Yearly Cost Yearly Yearly costs Yearly
month excluding Overhead excluding Overhead Yearly cost
Year (all Overheads Cost (Nat. Overheads costs (ECU) (ECU)
categories) (Nat. curr) curr) (ECU)
1 24 871200 871200 132000 132000 264000
2 6 217800 217800 33000 33000 66000
Total 30 1089000 1089000 165000 165000 330000
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Contractor Code: A
Organisation Name:BrailleNet/INSERM
National Currency: FRF Conversion Rate: 6.6
Yearly Yearly
Hourl Hourly Direct Yearly Direct Yearly
Name or Rate y Overhea Perso Labour Overhea Labour Overhea
Yea Category Code Rate d Rate n Cost d Cost Cost d costs
r (Nat. (Nat. Hours (Nat. (Nat. (ECU) (ECU)
Curr.) Curr.) Curr.) Curr.)
1 Researcher 1 171.6 171.6 845 148500 148500 22500 22500
2 Researcher 1 175.7 175.7 338 59400 59400 9000 9000
Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....100........ %
Person Year: 12 Person Months: 21.67 Person Day: 7.8
Number of Person Months Number of Person Days Number of Hours
Person- Yearly Cost Yearly Yearly costs Yearly
month excluding Overhead excluding Overhead Yearly cost
Year (all Overheads Cost (Nat. Overheads costs (ECU) (ECU)
categories) (Nat. curr) curr) (ECU)
1 5 148500 148500 22500 22500 45000
2 2 59400 59400 9000 9000 18000
Total 7 207900 207900 31500 31500 63000
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 37
Contractor Code: A
Organisation Name:European Blind Union
National Currency: FRF Conversion Rate: 6.6
Yearly Yearly
Hourl Hourly Direct Yearly Direct Yearly
Name or Rate y Overhea Perso Labour Overhea Labour Overhea
Yea Category Code Rate d Rate n Cost d Cost Cost d costs
r (Nat. (Nat. Hours (Nat. (Nat. (ECU) (ECU)
Curr.) Curr.) Curr.) Curr.)
1 Researcher 1 156.4 156.4 422 66000 66000 10000 10000
2 Researcher 1 156.4 156.4 169 26400 26400 4000 4000
Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....100........ %
Person Year: 12 Person Months: 21.67 Person Day: 7.8
Number of Person Months Number of Person Days Number of Hours
Person- Yearly Cost Yearly Yearly costs Yearly
month excluding Overhead excluding Overhead Yearly cost
Year (all Overheads Cost (Nat. Overheads costs (ECU) (ECU)
categories) (Nat. curr) curr) (ECU)
1 2.5 66000 66000 10000 10000 20000
2 1 26400 26400 4000 4000 8000
Total 3.5 92400 92400 14000 14000 28000
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Contractor Code: A
Organisation Name: Royal National Institute for the Blind
National Currency: GBP Conversion Rate: 0.7
Yearly Yearly
Hourl Hourly Direct Yearly Direct Yearly
Name or Rate y Overhea Perso Labour Overhea Labour Overhea
Yea Category Code Rate d Rate n Cost d Cost Cost d costs
r (Nat. (Nat. Hours (Nat. (Nat. (ECU) (ECU)
Curr.) Curr.) Curr.) Curr.)
1 Project Leader 1 17.5 17.5 200 7000 7000 10000 10000
2 MMarkMar
Project Leader 2 13.5 13.5 104 2800 2800 4000 4000
Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....100........ %
Person Year: 12 Person Months: 17.5 Person Day: 7.2
Number of Person Months Number of Person Days Number of Hours
Person- Yearly Cost Yearly Yearly costs Yearly
month excluding Overhead excluding Overhead Yearly cost
Year (all Overheads Cost (Nat. Overheads costs (ECU) (ECU)
categories) (Nat. curr) curr) (ECU)
1 2.5 7000 7000 10000 10000 20000
2 1 2800 2800 4000 4000 8000
Total 3.5 9800 9800 14000 14000 28000
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 39
Contractor Code: C
Organisation Name: Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
National Currency: GRD Conversion Rate: 310
Yearly Yearly
Hourl Hourly Direct Yearly Direct Yearly
Name or Rate y Overhea Perso Labour Overhea Labour Overhea
Yea Category Code Rate d Rate n Cost d Cost Cost d costs
r (Nat. (Nat. Hours (Nat. (Nat. (ECU) (ECU)
Curr.) Curr.) Curr.) Curr.)
1 Researcher - 6349 9524 980 6222020 9333520 20071 30108
2 Researcher - 6730 10095 280 1884400 2826600 6079 9118
1 STS* - 4823 7235 280 1350440 2025800 4356 6535
2 STS* - 5112 7668 140 715680 1073520 2309 3463
Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....150........ %
Person Year: Person Months: Person Day:
Number of Person Months 12 Number of Person Days 18,75 Number of Hours 7,5
Person- Yearly Cost Yearly Yearly costs Yearly
month excluding Overhead excluding Overhead Yearly cost
Year (all Overheads Cost (Nat. Overheads costs (ECU) (ECU)
categories) (Nat. curr) curr) (ECU)
1 9 7572460 11359320 24427 36643 61070
2 3 2600080 3900120 8388 12581 20969
Total 12 10172540 15259440 32815 49224 82039
* Specialised Technical Scientist
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Contractor Code: A
Organisation Name: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
National Currency: ITL Conversion Rate: 1900
Yearly Yearly
Hourl Hourly Direct Yearly Direct Yearly
Name or Rate y Overhea Pers Labour Overhea Labour Overhea
Yea Category Code Rate d Rate on Cost d Cost Cost d costs
r (Nat. (Nat. Hou (Nat. (Nat. (ECU) (ECU)
Curr.) Curr.) rs Curr.) Curr.)
1 Res. Dir. 1 12000 60000 150 18050000 9025000 9500 4750
0 19950000
1 Researcher 1 90000 45000 222 9975000 10500 5250
2 Res. Dir. 1 12000 60000 76 9120000 4560000 4800 2400
0
2 Researcher 1 90000 45000 110 9880000 4940000 5200 2600
Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....50........ %
Person Year: 12 Person Months: 17.1 Person Day: 7.2
Number of Person Months Number of Person Days Number of Hours
Person- Yearly Cost Yearly Yearly costs Yearly
month excluding Overhead excluding Overhead Yearly cost
Year (all Overheads Cost (Nat. Overheads costs (ECU) (ECU)
categories) (Nat. curr) curr) (ECU)
1 3 38000000 19000000 20000 10000 30000
2 1.5 19000000 9500000 10000 5000 15000
Total 4.5 57000000 28500000 30000 15000 45000
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 41
S.3 - Confidentiality and IPR Handling
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
No confidential data or IPR in this project.
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S 4.1- Participants details
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Participating Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status .Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
Abbreviated name INRIA/W3C
Registered Address
Street Name and No. Domaine de Voluceau BP 105
Town/City Le Chesnay
Post Code / Cedex 78153 Cedex
Region + Region Code Ile de France - FR1
Country Code FR
Number of employees ..40 (W3C only).....2500 (INRIA)............................
What is current turnover? ................................. ECU
What is highest % share of
your company held by
another legal entity? ............. %
Contractual role If not a Coordinator or Contractor, give Parent contractor Name and
Number (see code form A3):
........................................................................................................................
Funding Model (AC/FC) Additional Cost (AC):................... Full Cost (FC): YES............
Type of Organisation ..ROR...... Fill in one of the following codes:
IND Industrial or commercial enterprise
EDU University, Higher Education
ROR Research organisation
INT International organisation (publicly funded and non-profit making)
OTH Other
Keyword Codes A.1........... B.34........... B.............
Parent Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status ........................................................................................................................
of parent organisation ........................................................................................................................
Country Code ............................
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 43
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Participating Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status BrailleNet/INSERM
Abbreviated name INS-BN
Registered Address
Street Name and No. UPMC B23
9 quai St Bernard
Town/City Paris
Post Code / Cedex 75252
Region + Region Code Ile-de-France (FR1)
Country Code FR
Number of employees ..................15.................
What is current turnover? ECU
What is highest % share of
your company held by
another legal entity? ............. %
Contractual role If not a Coordinator or Contractor, give Parent contractor Name and
Number (see code form A3):
..INRIA....C1......................................................................................
Funding Model (AC/FC) Additional Cost (AC):................... Full Cost (FC): .....YES.....
Type of Organisation ...OTH......... Fill in one of the following codes:
IND Industrial or commercial enterprise
EDU University, Higher Education
ROR Research organisation
INT International organisation (publicly funded and non-profit making)
OTH Other NATIONA CONSORTIUM Non-for-profit
Keyword Codes A............ B.18........... B 32.............
Parent Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status ........................................................................................................................
of parent organisation
Country Code ............................
44
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Participating Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status European Blind Union
Abbreviated name EBU
Registered Address
Street Name and No. 58 Avenue Bosquet
Town/City Paris
Post Code / Cedex 75007
Region + Region Code Ile de France (FR1)
Country Code FR
Number of employees ....3...............................
What is current turnover? ECU
What is highest % share of
your company held by
another legal entity? ............. %
Contractual role If not a Coordinator or Contractor, give Parent contractor Name and
Number (see code form A3):
INRIA C1
Funding Model (AC/FC) Additional Cost (AC):................... Full Cost (FC): ......YES..........
Type of Organisation .INT........... Fill in one of the following codes:
IND Industrial or commercial enterprise
EDU University, Higher Education
ROR Research organisation
INT International organisation (publicly funded and non-profit making)
OTH Other
Keyword Codes A3............ B.32........... B.............
Parent Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status ........................................................................................................................
of parent organisation ........................................................................................................................
Country Code ............................
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 45
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Participating Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status Royal National Institute for the Blind
Abbreviated name RNIB
Registered Address
Street Name and No. 224 Great Portland Street
........................................................................................................................
Town/City London
Post Code / Cedex W1N 6AA
Region + Region Code UK 55
Country Code GB
Number of employees ....2500...............................
What is current turnover? ECU
What is highest % share of
your company held by
another legal entity? ............. %
Contractual role If not a Coordinator or Contractor, give Parent contractor Name and
Number (see code form A3):
.......INRIA C1............................................................................
Funding Model (AC/FC) Additional Cost (AC):................... Full Cost (FC): ......YES..........
Type of Organisation ...INT......... Fill in one of the following codes:
IND Industrial or commercial enterprise
EDU University, Higher Education
ROR Research organisation
INT International organisation (publicly funded and non-profit making)
OTH Other
Keyword Codes A.3........... B.32........... B.............
Parent Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status ........................................................................................................................
of parent organisation ........................................................................................................................
Country Code ............................
46
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Participating Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas,
Institute of Computer Science
Abbreviated name ICS/FORTH
Registered Address
Street Name and No. Science and Technology Park of Crete, Voutes
Town/City Heraklion
Post Code / Cedex GR - 71110
Region + Region Code Kriti, GR43
Country Code GR
Number of employees ....720...............................
What is current turnover? ................................. ECU
What is highest % share of
your company held by
another legal entity? ............. %
Contractual role If not a Coordinator or Contractor, give Parent contractor Name and
Number (see code form A3):
........................................................................................................................
Funding Model (AC/FC) Additional Cost (AC):................... Full Cost (FC): .....YES..........
Type of Organisation ...ROR..... Fill in one of the following codes:
IND Industrial or commercial enterprise
EDU University, Higher Education
ROR Research organisation
INT International organisation (publicly funded and non-profit making)
OTH Other
Keyword Codes A............ B34........... B.............
Parent Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status ........................................................................................................................
of parent organisation ........................................................................................................................
Country Code ............................
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 47
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Participating Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Abbreviated name CNR
Registered Address
Street Name and No. Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7
Town/City Roma
Post Code / Cedex 00185
Region + Region Code Lazio
Country Code IT
Number of employees 7500
What is current turnover? ................................. ECU
What is highest % share of
your company held by
another legal entity? ............. %
Contractual role If not a Coordinator or Contractor, give Parent contractor Name and
Number (see code form A3):
FORTH C2
Funding Model (AC/FC) Additional Cost (AC):................... Full Cost (FC): YES
Type of Organisation ROR. Fill in one of the following codes:
IND Industrial or commercial enterprise
EDU University, Higher Education
ROR Research organisation
INT International organisation (publicly funded and non-profit making)
OTH Other
Keyword Codes A1............ B34............ B.............
Parent Organisation (legal entity)
Full legal name, legal status ........................................................................................................................
of parent organisation ........................................................................................................................
Country Code ............................
48
Form S.4.2. Participants details
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Department / Institute carrying out the Work
Full name .World Wide Web Consortium.....................................
...W3C.............................................................................................................
........
Sector / Activity Keywords
B34
Address
Street Name and No. 2004 Route des Lucioles
........................................................................................................................
Town/City Sophia-Antipolis
Post Code / Cedex 06902
Region PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D’AZUR (FR82)
Country Code FR
Contact Person
Title, Name, First Name Dr Dardailler Daniel
Telephone Number +33 (0)4 95 65 79 83
Fax Number +33 (0)4 95 65 78 22
E-mail danield@w3.org
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 49
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Department / Institute carrying out the Work
Full name BrailleNet/INSERM
........................................................................................................................
Sector / Activity Keywords
B18 B32
Address
Street Name and No. UPMC B23
9 quai St Bernard
........................................................................................................................
Town/City . Paris........................................................
Post Code / Cedex ..75252...................................................................
Region .. Ile-de-France (FR1).............
Country Code ...FR...............................
Contact Person
Title, Name, First Name ..Dr Dominique Burger.........................................................................
Telephone Number ...+33 1 44 27 34 35.......................................................
Fax Number ...+33 1 44 07 15 85........................................................
E-mail ....dominique.burger@snv.jussieu.fr..............................................................
50
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Department / Institute carrying out the Work
Full name .European Blind Union
...............................................................................
Sector / Activity Keywords
B.32
Address
Street Name and No. . 58 Avenue Bosquet...........................................................................
........................................................................................................................
Town/City Paris
Post Code / Cedex 75007
Region Ile de France
Country Code FR
Contact Person
Title, Name, First Name Jaap van Lelieveld
Telephone Number .+31 318 638 994....................................................
Fax Number .+31 30 293 2544......................................................................
E-mail .. Jaap.van.Lelieveld@inter.nl.net
......................................................................................................................
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 51
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Department / Institute carrying out the Work
Full name RNIB
Information Superhighways Project..........................................
Sector / Activity Keywords
B32
Address
Street Name and No. Bakewell Road...............................................................
Orton Southgate.............................................................
Town/City Peterborough......................................................................
Post Code / Cedex PE2 6XU................................................................
Region UK4................................
Country Code GB................................
Contact Person
Title, Name, First Name Mr Steve Tyler.............................................
Telephone Number +44 1733 370777................................................
Fax Number +44 1733 371555................................................
E-mail styler@rnib.org.uk..............................................
52
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Department / Institute carrying out the Work
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas,
Full name
Institute of Computer Science
Sector / Activity Keywords
B34
Address
Street Name and No. Science and Technology Park of Crete, Voutes
Town/City Heraklion
Post Code / Cedex GR - 71110
Region Kriti
Country Code GR
Contact Person
Title, Name, First Name Dr Constantine Stephanadis
Telephone Number +30 81 391 741
Fax Number .+30 81 391 740
E-mail cs@ics.forth.gr
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 53
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
Department / Institute carrying out the Work
Full name Istituto di Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche Nello Carrara
Sector / Activity Keywords
B.34........... B............
Address
Street Name and No. Via Panciatichi, 64
Town/City Firenze
Post Code / Cedex 50127
Region Toscana (IT51)
Country Code IT
Contact Person
Title, Name, First Name Dr. Emiliani Pier Luigi
Telephone Number +39-55-4235235
Fax Number +39-55-4235286
E-mail ple@iroe.fi.cnr.it
54
S 5 - Contractual and Banking Information
Project ref. Acronym Date Sheet
DE4105 WAI WAI Jul 27th 1998 ........of..........
(This information is only used for EU payment procedure)
Information on behalf of the contractors
Financial Co-ordinator’s name (=holder of the bank account)
INRIA
Address
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
Banking Information
Name of the Bank
Agence Comptable Centrale du Tresor
Address
23 bis Rue de l’Universite 75700 Paris
SWIFT CODE
BIC Code TRES-FR-PP-XXX
Account Number E4417803
Date Jul 27th 1998
Financial Co-
ordinator’s
signature
Stamp
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 55
S. 6 Validation Sites
Project No. Acronym Date Sheet
........of..........
Validation Sites for Verification
Institution Number of Users Technologies used City/Town Region 1. Country 2.
Organisation
Validation Sites for Demonstration
Institution Number of Users Technologies used City/Town Region 1. Country 2.
Organisation
Note
For distributed or virtual sites, for example teleworkers from home, or telematic kiosk services, name and place the
communication nodes and the users associated to them.
1 See annexed list of regions (NUTS level 2, only for Denmark & Ireland use level 3). Appendix G.
2 Please use ISO country codes as described in Appendix G.
56
Form S.7 Cost Summary for Demonstration Work
Project ref. Sector Date Sheet
........of..........
Person- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Total % of EU EU
Participant Personnel Equipment Third Party Travel and Consumables Other Overheads Contribution
month2 Contribution3
s Code1 Assistance
(subcontractors)
Subsistence and
Computing
Significant
Specific %
FC
AC
Project Cost
C1
A 1.1.
A 1....
Subtotal 1
C2
A 2.1.
A 2...
Subtotal 2
C n
A n.1.
A n....
Subtotal n
Total
Note
Please specify all costs occurred during the demonstration part of the Validation Phase. Note that the EU contribution
normally should not exceed 33% of the total estimated allowable costs in this phase. These costs should be included in
the A.2 and S.1 Forms.
1 Codes for the participant roles are as follows: C1 = Coordinator; C = Contractor; A = Associated contractor;
2 Including Subcontractors
3 See contract art. 3.2 (FC = full cost; AC = additional cost)
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 57
Form S.8 Efforts and Cost Summary for the self investment for
Contractors using Additional Cost model and for Sponsoring Partners1
Project ref. Sector Date Sheet
........of..........
Person- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Total
Participant
month3
Personnel Equipment Third Party Travel and Consumables Other Overheads
s Code2 Assistance
(subcontractors)
Subsistence and
Computing
Significant
Specific
Project
Cost
C1
A 1.1.
A 1....
C2
A 2.1.
A 2...
C n
A n.1.
A n....
Total
Note
These efforts and costs should NOT be included in the A.2 and S.1 Forms.
1 The self-financing and labour contribution from full time employed staff for Contractors using the
Additional Cost Model and for Sponsoring Partners. Efforts and costs not included in the
A2 and S1 forms.
2 Codes for the participant roles are as follows: C1 = Coordinator; C = Contractor; A = Associated
contractor;
3 Efforts for the full time staff (non additional staff) for AC contractors working on the project from
the C2 forms. These figures must NOT be included in A2 and S1 forms.
58
Form S.9 Source of finance1
Project ref. Sector Date Sheet
........of..........
Participants Code2 PUBLIC3 PRIVATE4
C1
A 1.1.
A 1....
C2
A 2.1.
A 2...
C n
A n.1.
A n....
X5
Third parties outside
EU/EEA6
Total
1 The source of finance for the contractors own investment in the shared cost project.
2 Codes for the participant roles are as follows: C1 = Coordinator; C = Contractor; A = Associated
contractor;
3 Public source of finance is financing which comes directly or indirectly from public sources (for
example international organisations, national, regional or local governments, government agencies
etc.).
4 Private sources of finance is financing which comes from commercial or market trading
organisations such as companies with shareholders. A company in which a government is a major
shareholder is still considered to be a private source of finance if it operates on a commercial basis
(e. g. electricity, water, gas or telephone company).
5 Sponsoring partners
6 Organisations not directly participating in the project outside EU/EE
ANNEX 1 Supporting Information 59
