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	

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.

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
(Initials)	Project Duration
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. 

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).

Coordinator:
Name of Institution/Organisation	City
+ Postal Code	Region1  	Country 2	
INRIA as
World Wide Web
Consortium
 (W3C)	78153
 Le Chesnay Cedex	Ile de France
FR1	FR	

Contact person from the Coordinating Contractor: 
Title, First Name, Name	 Dr Daniel Dardailler     	Address:	INRIA/W3C
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 Code3 	Name of Institution/Organisation	City
+ Postal Code	Region1	Country 2	
C 2	ICS/
FORTH
	Heraklion
GR 71110	Kriti	GR	

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)

Participants Code (9) 	Person-month (15) 	1.
Personnel	2. 
Equipment	3. 
Third Party Assistance
(subcontractors)	4. 
Travel and  Subsistence	5.
Consumable and Computing	6. 
Other significant Specific Project Cost	7. 
Overheads	8.
Funding model
(S/A)
(16)	
Total 	% of EU Contri
bution
(17)	
EU Contribution	

C 1	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	
C 2	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 / Total cost excluding 100 % additional cost) 	100%	
EU Contribution (ECU) 	672000	

Estimated contribution from Sponsoring Participants (ECU)	0	

A.3 - Participants List

Project Number	Acronym - Title	
DE4105 WAI	WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative	

Participants Code (9)	Participant's Institution/Organisation	Participant's -
Short Name	Country (8)
+ Postal Code. 	
C 1	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	
C 2	Foundation for Research and  Technology - Hellas,                                        Institute of Computer Science	FORTH/ICS	GR 71110	
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	

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).

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).

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.

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 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.

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)

B1 - Work package Description

Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

WP01
 ID	Work Package TITLE: Project Management 
											
WP
LEAD	W3C	START	t0	END	t0+18	DUR	18	
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)

Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

WP02
 ID	Work Package TITLE: Education/Awareness Campaign
											
WP
LEAD	W3C	START	T0+3	END	t0+15	DUR	12	
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). 

Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

WP03
 ID	Work Package TITLE: Rating/Certification System
											
WP
LEAD	W3C	START	t0	END	t0+18	DUR	18	
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.

Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

WP04
 ID	Work Package TITLE: Standardization
											
WP
LEAD	ICS/FORTH	START	t0	END	t0+18	DUR	18	
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)

Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

WP05
 ID	Work Package TITLE: User Forum
											
WP
LEAD	W3C	START	t0+6	END	t0+18	DUR	12	
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.

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 

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 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

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 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/

Part C - Project Resources & Deliverables
C.1 Work-Package List

Project N°	Acronym	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	........of..........	

Work-Package
ID
(1)	Title	Lead 
Contractor
ID
(2)	pms

(3)	Start
Month

(4)	End
Month

(5)	Phase

(6)	Deliv-erable
IDs
(7)	
WP01	Project Management	W3C	9	01	18		WP01.1-5	
WP02	Education/Awareness	W3C	16.5	04	15		WP02.1-3	
WP03	Rating/Certification	W3C	13	01	18		WP03.1-4	
WP04	Standardization	ICS	16.5	01	18		WP04.1-3	
WP05	Users Forum	W3C	5.5	06	18		WP05.1-3	
	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>

Project N°	Acronym	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	........of..........	

Work-Package ID	Title	Starting Event	
WP01	Project Management	Deliverable 1	

Participants
Code	Labour category	Rate Code 	Yr 1
pms
	Yr 2
pms	Yr 3
pms	Yr 4
pms	Yr 5
pms	Total
pms	
W3C	Researcher	1	6	3				9	
	TOTAL		6	3				9	
	TOTAL to A2, S1		6	3				9	
	TOTAL to S9								

Work-Package ID	Title	Starting Event	
WP02	Education/Awareness Campaign	Deliverable 1	

Participants
Code	Labour category	Rate Code 	Yr 1
pms
	Yr 2
pms	Yr 3
pms	Yr 4
pms	Yr 5
pms	Total
pms	
W3C	Researcher	1	12					12	
INS-BN	Researcher	1	2					2	
RNIB	Researcher	1	1.5					1.5	
EBU	Researcher	1	1					1	
	TOTAL		16.5					16.5	
	TOTAL to A2, S1		16.5					16.5	
	TOTAL to S9								

Work-Package ID	Title	Starting Event	
WP03	Rating/Certification	Deliverable 1	

Participants
Code	Labour category	Rate Code 	Yr 1
pms
	Yr 2
pms	Yr 3
pms	Yr 4
pms	Yr 5
pms	Total
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	
	TOTAL		8	5				13	
	TOTAL to A2, S1		8	5				13	
	TOTAL to S9								

Work-Package ID	Title	Starting Event	
WP04	Standardization	Deliverable 1	

Participants
Code	Labour category	Rate Code 	Yr 1
pms
	Yr 2
pms	Yr 3
pms	Yr 4
pms	Yr 5
pms	Total
pms	
ICS	Researcher	1	9	3				12	
CNR	Researcher	1	3	1.5				4.5	
	TOTAL		12	4.5				16.5	
	TOTAL to A2, S1		12	4.5				16.5	
	TOTAL to S9								

Work-Package ID	Title	Starting Event	
WP05	Users Forum	Deliverable 1	

Participants
Code	Labour category	Rate Code 	Yr 1
pms
	Yr 2
pms	Yr 3
pms	Yr 4
pms	Yr 5
pms	Total
pms	
INS-BN	Researcher	1	2	1				3	
RNIB	Researcher	1	0.5	0.5				1	
EBU	Researcher	1	1	0.5				1.5	
	TOTAL		3.5	2				5.5	
	TOTAL to A2, S1		3.5	2				5.5	
	TOTAL to S9								

C.3 Deliverables List

Project N°	Acronym	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	........of..........	

Deliverable
ID
(1)	Title	Delivery 
date
(2)	Nature

(3)	Dis-semination
Level
(4)	Type
PD or X
(5)	
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/SP	PU	PD	
D3.1	PICS compliant Rating System	6	RE/SP	PU	PD	
D3.2	Integration in PC platforms	12	RE/PR	PU	PD	
D3.3	Pilot Label database	12	RE/PR	PU	PD	
D3.4	Operational Label Bureau	18	RE/PR	PU	PD	
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	
D5.1	User Forum Set-up	6	RE	PU	PD	
D5.2	User Forum Activity	12	RE/PR	PU	PD	
D5.3	User Forum Activity	18	RE/PR	PU	PD	

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

C.4 Equipment List

Project N°	Acronym	Sheet	
		........of..........	

Description
	Month
 of
purchase
(1)	Cost
ECU	Depre-ciation period
(2)	% alloc.
 to project
(2)	Resp. contractor
ID
(3)	Amount to be allowed
ECU
(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

C.5 Other Significant Specific Project Costs

Project N°	Acronym	Sheet	
		........of..........	

Description
	Resp. contractor
ID
(1)	Amount to be allowed
ECU
(2)	

			

			

			

			
			
TOTAL:			

Notes
(1) 		Responsible contractor for purchasing the specific items
(2) 	For allowable costs  see Article 19.6 of Annex II

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

Form S.1 Cost Summary per year in ECU
Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

Year	1	

Participants Code (9) 	Person-month (15) 	1.
Personnel	2. 
Equipment	3. 
Third Party Assistance
(subcontractors)	4. 
Travel and  Subsistence	5.
Consumable and Computing	6. 
Other significant Specific Project Cost	7. 
Overheads	8.
Funding model
(S/A)
(16)	
Total 	% of EU Contri
bution
(17)	
EU Contribution	

C 1	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	
C 2	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	

Participants Code (9) 	Person-month (15) 	1.
Personnel	2. 
Equipment	3. 
Third Party Assistance
(subcontractors)	4. 
Travel and  Subsistence	5.
Consumable and Computing	6. 
Other significant Specific Project Cost	7. 
Overheads	8.
Funding model
(S/A)
(16)	
Total 	% of EU Contri
bution
(17)	
EU Contribution	

C 1	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	
C 2	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	

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	

Year	

Name or Category	

Rate 
Code	
Hourly 
Rate 
(Nat. 
Curr.)	
Hourly 
Overhead Rate (Nat. Curr.)	

Person 
Hours 	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (Nat. Curr.)	
Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. Curr.)	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (ECU)	
Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
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: 
Number of Person Months	12	Person Months:
Number of Person Days	21.67	Person Day:
Number of Hours	7.8	

Year	Person-month
(all categories)	Yearly Cost excluding Overheads (Nat. curr)	Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. curr)	Yearly costs excluding Overheads (ECU)	Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
Yearly cost (ECU)	
1	24	871200	871200	132000	132000	264000	
2	6	217800	217800	  33000	33000	 66000	
Total	30	1089000	1089000	165000	165000	330000	

Contractor Code:	A	
Organisation Name:BrailleNet/INSERM	

National Currency:	FRF	Conversion Rate:	6.6	

Year	

Name or Category	

Rate 
Code	
Hourly 
Rate 
(Nat. 
Curr.)	
Hourly 
Overhead Rate (Nat. Curr.)	

Person 
Hours 	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (Nat. Curr.)	
Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. Curr.)	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (ECU)	
Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
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: 
Number of Person Months	12	Person Months:
Number of Person Days	21.67	Person Day:
Number of Hours	7.8	

Year	Person-month
(all categories)	Yearly Cost excluding Overheads (Nat. curr)	Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. curr)	Yearly costs excluding Overheads (ECU)	Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
Yearly cost (ECU)	
1	5	148500	148500	22500	22500	45000	
2	2	59400	59400	9000	9000	18000	
Total	7	207900	207900	31500	31500	63000	

Contractor Code:	A	
Organisation Name:European Blind Union	

National Currency:	FRF	Conversion Rate:	6.6	

Year	

Name or Category	

Rate 
Code	
Hourly 
Rate 
(Nat. 
Curr.)	
Hourly 
Overhead Rate (Nat. Curr.)	

Person 
Hours 	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (Nat. Curr.)	
Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. Curr.)	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (ECU)	
Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
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: 
Number of Person Months	12	Person Months:
Number of Person Days	21.67	Person Day:
Number of Hours	7.8	

Year	Person-month
(all categories)	Yearly Cost excluding Overheads (Nat. curr)	Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. curr)	Yearly costs excluding Overheads (ECU)	Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
Yearly cost (ECU)	
1	2.5	66000	66000	10000
	10000	20000	
2	1	26400	26400	4000	4000	8000	
Total	3.5	92400	92400	14000	14000	28000	

Contractor Code:	A	
Organisation Name: Royal National Institute for the Blind	

National Currency:	 GBP	Conversion Rate:	0.7	

Year	

Name or Category	

Rate 
Code	
Hourly 
Rate 
(Nat. 
Curr.)	
Hourly 
Overhead Rate (Nat. Curr.)	

Person 
Hours 	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (Nat. Curr.)	
Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. Curr.)	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (ECU)	
Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
1	Project Leader 1
MMarkMar		17.5	17.5	200	7000	7000	10000	10000	
2	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: 
Number of Person Months	12	Person Months:
Number of Person Days	17.5	Person Day:
Number of Hours	7.2	

Year	Person-month
(all categories)	Yearly Cost excluding Overheads (Nat. curr)	Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. curr)	Yearly costs excluding Overheads (ECU)	Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
Yearly cost (ECU)	
1	2.5	7000	7000	10000
	10000	20000	
2	1	2800	2800	4000	4000	8000	
Total	3.5	9800	9800	14000	14000	28000	

Contractor Code:	C	
Organisation Name:  Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas	

National Currency:	GRD	Conversion Rate:	310	

Year	

Name or Category	

Rate 
Code	
Hourly 
Rate 
(Nat. 
Curr.)	
Hourly 
Overhead Rate (Nat. Curr.)	

Person 
Hours 	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (Nat. Curr.)	
Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. Curr.)	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (ECU)	
Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
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: 
Number of Person Months	
12	Person Months:
Number of Person Days	
18,75	Person Day:
Number of Hours	
7,5	

Year	Person-month
(all categories)	Yearly Cost excluding Overheads (Nat. curr)	Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. curr)	Yearly costs excluding Overheads (ECU)	Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
Yearly cost (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

Contractor Code:	A	
Organisation Name: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche	

National Currency:	ITL	Conversion Rate:	1900	

Year	

Name or Category	

Rate 
Code	
Hourly 
Rate 
(Nat. 
Curr.)	
Hourly 
Overhead Rate (Nat. Curr.)	

Person 
Hours 	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (Nat. Curr.)	
Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. Curr.)	Yearly Direct Labour Cost (ECU)	
Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
1	Res. Dir.
	1	120000	60000	150	18050000	9025000	9500	4750	
1	Researcher	1	90000	45000	222	19950000	9975000	10500	5250	
2	Res. Dir.
	1	120000	60000	76	9120000	4560000	4800	2400	
2	Researcher	1	90000	45000	110	9880000	4940000	5200	2600	

Overhead recovery rate used (as a percentage of direct labour cost): .....50........ %

Person Year: 
Number of Person Months	12	Person Months:
Number of Person Days	17.1	Person Day:
Number of Hours	7.2	

Year	Person-month
(all categories)	Yearly Cost excluding Overheads (Nat. curr)	Yearly Overhead Cost (Nat. curr)	Yearly costs excluding Overheads (ECU)	Yearly Overhead costs (ECU)	
Yearly cost (ECU)	
1	3	38000000	19000000	20000	10000	30000	
2	1.5	19000000	9500000	10000	5000	15000	
Total	4.5	57000000	28500000	30000	15000	45000	

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.
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

What is current turnover?	..40 (W3C only).....2500 (INRIA)............................
 
.................................   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	............................	

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

What is current turnover?	..................15.................
 
    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	............................	

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

What is current turnover?	....3...............................
 
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	............................	

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

What is current turnover?	....2500...............................
 
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	............................	

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

What is current turnover?	....720...............................
 
.................................   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	............................	

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

What is current turnover?	7500
 
.................................   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	............................	

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

Telephone Number
	Dr Dardailler Daniel

+33 (0)4 95 65 79 83	
Fax Number

E-mail
	+33 (0)4 95 65 78 22

danield@w3.org	

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

Telephone Number
	..Dr Dominique Burger.........................................................................

...+33 1 44 27 34 35.......................................................	
Fax Number

E-mail
	...+33 1 44 07 15 85........................................................

....dominique.burger@snv.jussieu.fr..............................................................	

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

Telephone Number
	Jaap van Lelieveld

.+31 318 638 994....................................................	
Fax Number

E-mail
	.+31 30 293 2544......................................................................

.. Jaap.van.Lelieveld@inter.nl.net
......................................................................................................................	

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

Telephone Number
	Mr Steve Tyler.............................................

+44 1733 370777................................................	
Fax Number

E-mail
	+44 1733 371555................................................

styler@rnib.org.uk..............................................	

Project ref.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
DE4105 WAI	WAI	Jul 27th 1998	........of..........	

Department / Institute carrying out the Work

Full name

	Foundation for Research and  Technology - Hellas,                                                   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

Telephone Number
	Dr Constantine Stephanadis

+30 81 391 741	
Fax Number

E-mail
	.+30 81 391 740

cs@ics.forth.gr	

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

Telephone Number
	Dr. Emiliani Pier Luigi

+39-55-4235235	
Fax Number

E-mail
	+39-55-4235286

ple@iroe.fi.cnr.it	

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

	 		

S. 6 Validation Sites
Project No.	Acronym	Date	Sheet	
			........of..........	
Validation Sites for Verification
Institution
Organisation	Number of Users	Technologies used	City/Town	Region 1. 	Country 2. 	

						

						
						
Validation Sites for Demonstration
Institution
Organisation	Number of Users	Technologies used	City/Town	Region 1. 	Country 2. 	

						

						

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.

Form S.7 Cost Summary for Demonstration Work
Project ref.	Sector	Date	Sheet	
			........of..........	

Participants Code	Person-month	1.
Personnel	2. 
Equipment	3. 
Third Party Assistance
(subcontractors)	4. 
Travel and  Subsistence	5.
Consumables and Computing	6. 
Other Significant Specific Project Cost	7. 
Overheads	Total 	% of EU Contribution
                 FC
     %         AC	EU Contribution	

C 1													
A 1.1.													
A 1....													
Subtotal 1													
C 2													
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.

Form S.8 Efforts and Cost Summary for the self investment for Contractors using Additional Cost model and for Sponsoring Partners
Project ref.	Sector	Date	Sheet	
			........of..........	

Participants Code2 	Person-month3 	1.
Personnel	2. 
Equipment	3. 
Third Party Assistance
(subcontractors)	4. 
Travel and  Subsistence	5.
Consumables and Computing	6. 
Other Significant Specific Project Cost	7. 
Overheads	Total 	

C 1										
A 1.1.										
A 1....										
C 2										
A 2.1.										
A 2...										
C  n										
A n.1.										
A n....										
Total										

Form S.9 Source of finance
Project ref.	Sector	Date	Sheet	
			........of..........	

Participants Code2 	PUBLIC3 	PRIVATE4 	

C 1			
A 1.1.			
A 1....			
C 2			
A 2.1.			
A 2...			
C  n			
A n.1.			
A n....			
X5 			
Third parties outside EU/EEA6 			
Total