April 2019 | Report
Thanks to the MWF’s long-term commitment and continuous advancements in these areas, the association has positioned itself as a proactive and reliable partner in promoting mobile accessibility, raising awareness about the issue and dangers of counterfeit devices and helping to address questions about the health and safety of wireless devices.
In 2018, the MWF was active in 56 countries around the world, engaged with regional organizations on six continents and worked in collaboration with a wide network of associations, standardization bodies, research institutions and regulatory bodies.
Read our Annual Report to find out more about the MWF's activities.
March 2019 | Report
GARI’s mission – as relevant today as it was 10 years ago: GARI’s mission is to inform consumers about existing accessibility solutions in the market today and help them identify devices with features that best help their individual needs. This includes mobile phones with built-in screen readers, ‘simple access’ for persons who find today’s user interfaces overwhelming, Wearables with haptic feedback, Smart TVs that allow voice recognition for accessing features, or mobile apps that have been developed specifically to help overcome a barrier in daily life like finding accessible locations.
Throughout 2018 and across many meetings and events related to accessibility across the globe, the need for better information on available solutions as well as education of users and digital capacity building among persons with disabilities and older users, was a recurring theme and reconfirmed that having one central source of information on accessible devices is very much needed.
The report outlines the progress made with the GARI project and the MWF's initiatives on mobile accessibility throughout the year 2018.
August 2018 | Report
The GARI Annual Report 2017 provides a summary of the MWF’s activities around the GARI project, explains how different accessibility stakeholders are using the database, and gives an overview of the progress made in 2017 as well as use and device statistics. An audio version of the report is accessible via the “play” icon in the lower right corner of each page in the report or directly via the links listed in the blog post about the report: http://blog.gari.info/2018/07/regional-changes-impact-top-10-of.html
May 2017 | Report
Background information and progress report on the Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI). What are consumers looking for in mobile accessibility, how many devices offer accessibility features and some interesting statistics.
March 2017 | Report
Background information and progress report on the Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI). What are consumers looking for in mobile accessibility, how many devices offer accessibility features and some interesting statistics.
December 2015 | Report
Since the Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI) was established in 2008 by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF), it has become widely used by consumers and stakeholders around the world. This short report provides an update on the status of the GARI (www.gari.info) as of November 2015.
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