Digital autonomy for the visually impaired

Despite the law passed in February 2005 to impose accessibility for all, it's still impractical for a visually impaired person to use business software or navigate certain administrative sites, essential to a citizen's life, in complete autonomy. "Equality of rights and opportunities" sounds like a chimera, the opposite of the value of inclusion.

This exclusion is all the more stigmatizing in that it considerably reduces the number of people in employment, since visual impairment is considered to be the biggest obstacle to recruitment and/or job retention.

c'cité positions itself as a player in a Collective that respects the rights of everyone, while considering and respecting their individuality. In this way, c'cité makes its expertise available to its beneficiaries by offering training workshops in digital tools designed by and for the blind and visually impaired public. In this way, the association aims to reduce the digital divide and give everyone back their freedom of action on their own, without any dependence on any third party.

Since 1909, the Fédération des Aveugles Alsace Lorraine Grand Est has been working for the rights of blind and partially-sighted people, enabling them to improve their quality of life on a daily basis. It federates more than 600 members around key values: mutual aid - sharing - equality.

It has been able to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to be a vector of adapted and personalized solutions linked to all subjects of life (daily or existence).

Last year, it initiated more than thirty group workshops to help its users develop their digital skills.