Appendix II

Glossary of acronyms used in book

3G	3rd Generation network
AAMI	Age-Associated Memory Impairment
ACCS	Aural Cascading Style Sheet
ACD	Automatic Call Distribution
ACIF	Australian Communications Industry Forum
ADA	Americans with Disabilities Act
AGPS	Assisted Global Positioning System
AmI	Ambient Intelligence
ANEC	European Association for the coordination of Consumer Requirements in Standardisation
ASCII	American Standard for Coding Information Interchange
ASL	American Sign Language
ATAG	Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
ATM	Automatic Teller Machine
AUI	Aural User Interface
BAOC	Barring of All Outgoing Calls
CCTV	Closed Circuit Television
CD-ROM	Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CEN	European Committee of Standardisation
CENELEC	European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
CIF	Common Intermediate Format
CLI	Command Line Interface
CLI	Calling-Line Identification
COCOM	Communications Committee
COST	European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
COST 219	Future telecommunications and teleinformatics facilities for disabled people and elderly
COST 219bis	Telecommunications: Access for Disabled and Elderly People
CSS	Cascading Style Sheet
DAISY	Digital Accessible Information System
DDA	Disability Discrimination Act
D-ME	Digital Me
DTMF	Dual Tone Multiple Frequencies
EDeAN	European Design for All eAccessibility Network
EDT	European Deaf Telephone
EMC	Electromagnetic Compatibility
EIB	European Installation Bus
ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU	European Union
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GPRS	General Packet Radio Service
GPS	Global Positioning System
GSM	Global System for Mobile Communications (originally: Groupe Spécial Mobile)
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HAVi	Home Audio Video Interoperability
HCO	Hear Carry Over
HF	Human Factors
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
ICF	International Classification of Disability, Functioning and Health
ICT	Information and Communications Technologies
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
IM	Interactive Management
INCOM	Inclusive Communications Committee
IM	Instant Messaging services
IR	Infrared
IP	Internet Protocol
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM	Interpretive Modelling Structure
ISO	International Standards Organisation
IST	Information Society Technologies
ISTAG	IST Advisory Group
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
JIS	Japan Industrial Standard
LON	Local Operating Network
MCI	Mild Cognitive Impairment
MIDP	Mobile Information Device Profile
NFTH	Nordic Forum for Telecommunications and Disability
NGT	Nominal Group Technique NRA:National Regulatory Authority
NTP	Network Terminal Point
OBO	Operator determined of Barring of Outgoing calls
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
PATS	Publicly Available Telephone Services
P-Com	Personal Communicator
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PDF	Page Description File
PPCPE	Pocket PC Phone Edition
PSTN	Public Switched Telephone Network
RF	Radio Frequency
RFID	Radio Frequency Identification
RTTE	Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment
SD	Secure Digital
SIBS	Interbank Services Company
SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
SMP	Significant Market Power
SMS	Short Message Service
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
STF	Special Task Force
STS	Standard Telephone Service
SWAMI	Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence
SWOT	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
TCAM	Telecommunications Conformity Assessment and Market surveillance committee
TCHF	Technical Committee Human Factors (ETSI)
UAN	Underground Network Area
UMTS	Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UPnP	Universal Plug and Play
VoIP	Voice over Internet Protocol
VCO	Voice Carry Over
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAI	Web Accessibility Initiative
WAN	Wide Area Network
WCAG	Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines
WER	Word Error Rate
WHO	World Health Organisation
WiFi	Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11b/g)
WLAN	Wireless Local Area Network
WPAN	Wireless Personal Area Network
WSIS	World Summit on Information Society
XML	Extensible Markup Language

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