During the past decade, the need to study cognitive
disabilities and their possible impact on and benefits
from ICT has been identified (e.g. during the
development of the WCAG 2.0 Recommendations in
W3C and the European accessibility guidelines suitable
for public ICT procurement [1] developed by CEN,
CENELEC and ETSI) and acted upon. The area has been
under consideration in European and other research
activities (see clause 5 for details), some of which have
finished or are about to finish. Therefore, it is the right time to initiate applicable standardization activities, to
best exploit the synergies, in the interest of all.