Inmaculada Placencia is Deputy Head of Unit, for Integration of people with disabilities within the Directorate General for Employment social affairs and equal opportunities. The unit is in charge of the coordination of the European policies for people with disabilities and responsible for the European Disability Action Plan and the implementation of the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities at Comunity level. She is graduated in Physics and Computer Science. Since 1991 she joined the European Commission and worked in several research programmes addressing accessibility and applications for older people and people with disabilities. The focus of her recent work in the "e-Inclusion" unit of the Directorate General Information Society and Media European Commission addressed policy related activities in the area of eAccessibility and eInclusion in particular work related to Design for All and Assistive technologies and other European and international activities related to accessibility.