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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8654

27 February 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/information society
European conference on access to Information Society for deaf and hard of hearing people

Brussels, 26/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Around 82 million adults in Europe will have hearing loss by 2005 and by 2015, the figure will rise to almost 91 million in 2015. With the Internet becoming more popular and more and more services being made available by public authorities on line, there is a risk that people with impaired hearing or sight are excluded from the possibilities that the information society can offer. This is the reason why accessibility of the disabled to the Internet is...

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