European Parliament
(B7-0030/2012)
Ádám Kósa  (PPE ).
(HU)
Mr President, society tends to believe that accessibility is about lifts, ramps and handrails. This is not so. A large portion of people with disabilities – including the deaf, the hard of hearing and, the focus of this debate, the visually impaired and the blind – are denied access to information. Mr President, please record in the minutes that my sign language interpreter did not translate for me just now on my own request, with which I intended to demonstrate what it means to not have access to information. Only 5% of the visually impaired are able to read books. Active political cooperation is necessary.

