If you are:

Ministry of Health

• Hold public consultations with persons with disabilities and disabled persons organizations on developing accessibility policies and regulations

• Encourage/promote (industry, private sector etc) to develop/produce assistive technologies and related ICT equipment for persons with disabilities

In coordination with other sectors of government:

• Accessible e-government websites as per W3C-WAI standards and promotion of accessible private websites

• Accessible electronic documents across all areas of government

• Fund the customization of basic assistive technologies tools in local language including text to speech, voice recognition and screen readers (in coordination with Ministry of Education)

• Require any public procurement of ICTs to purchase accessible ICT

• Accessible electronic documents across all areas of government

• Provisions for reasonable accommodation for the work place

• Benchmarking, measuring and reporting progress on actions taken is an essential tool for policy makers to assess the effectiveness of country policies and programs

• Fostering R&D programs in cooperation with rehabilitation centers and investing for assistive technologies

• Seek international cooperation in promoting the usage of assistive technologies

• Policy and programs to help disabled persons acquire and use assistive technologies