Part V. Building the foundations for comfortable living environments

Section 2. Measures for secured livelihood for persons with disabilities

• To promote accessible information in order to enable persons with disabilities to enjoy adequately benefits of utilizing information technology through research and development on equipment and system taken into account availability of persons with disabilities and accessible web sites.
  
  
• To promote enhancement of providing information through establishing information network, creating video programme with closed-caption and expanding television programme with closed-caption.
  
  

[ Principal measures implemented ]

1. "IT Support Center for Persons with Disabilities" has been in operation as a comprehensive service center for supporting volunteers who advise persons with disabilities how to use personal computers, advising specialized users of personal computers and providing relevant information.
   
   
2. Japan Industrial Standards (JIS) in respect of "common guidelines (in the field of information and telecommunications)", "information processing units" and "web sites" was established by systemizing in accordance with such standards as "Accessibility Guidelines for Information Processing Units for Persons with Disabilities and Elderly People".
   
   
3. CD-ROM containing system of checking and revising web sites developed for accessible web sites to anyone including persons with disabilities and elderly people has been distributed to the local governments.
   
   
4. System has been developed to subtitle automatically almost all the canned programmes in a short time, even when a text-format manuscript is not available.
   
   

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