General

 Simple words, easy to understand by people who are deaf.
 Pages easy to navigate for blind people (ex: not too long menus, provide ways to skip over parts of text, etc.).
 A way to have bigger text on the screen (or instructions on how to make text bigger).
 Text/light edition of the site (easier to navigate for visitors with a slow connection, visitors using a braille display, visitors using a speech synthetisor, etc.)
 Small images for people who are deaf.

 EU Web Accessibility Level A

• http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/access...
• http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

Contents

 News. With the following keywords:

• Legal or political changes/debates,
• Infrastructures (transport, city services, ...)
• Online services
• Citizen initiatives (ex: Karlovo city council hired a blind person)
• Funding opportunities

 Forthcomming events

 Articles / Publications

 Tips for living with disabilities

• School / education
• Transport
• Books
• Specialised sports
• Medical information (facilities)
• Helpful tools
  • Voice synthetisers (and where to download)
  • Braille displays

 Tips for communicating/living with a person who lives with a disability

• Building standards
• Environmental criterias
• Web site criterias
• Habits of blind people or people who use wheelchairs
• Communication tips
• Small dictionnary
• Small game/quiz about people living with a disability

 Reviews (ex: restaurants, stores, etc.) - people could "vote" for or against places where they have been.

 Forums:

• Work (requests/offers)
• Services (commercial)
• Legal questions
• Transport
• Living (Home tips, ..?)
• Computers and Internet
• Sports
• Fun

 List of relevant NGOs where community can enter their coordinates. This will be implemented with petitions.

• unions of disabled people
• unions supporting disabled people
• other Bulgarian NGOs

 eCommerce

• Stores
• Using ePay (Bulgarian e-payment system)
• eGov (taxes, NOI, ...)

 Links to other portals or important sites

Front page - Home

Content shown on the front page will include a short description of the 10 most recent articles, sorted by date. Each article will include:
 a link to the full article
 a link to the section with similar texts
 the number of messages posted to the forum or petition of the article, if any.

Syndication

Other sites will be able to syndicate the titles from the front page or, if requested, the titles of the most recent articles from a specific section or theme. This will be possible for both the Bulgarian and the English edition of the site.

English edition of the site

 Portal introduction + description about the authors
 Occasionnally, news important to foreigners. For example: important modifications made to laws, government initiatives, etc.

Other

 Monthly/weekly mailing-list bulletin of new articles
 Provide form to subscribe / unsubscribe to list
 Provide form to subscribe to private area (ecrire)
 Provide form to write to portal team