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16.12.10. ITU role in promoting e-Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities. Action Line C3: Access Internet Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities Tuesday 11 May 2010 14:30-16:00 Room K. Susan Schorr, Head a.i., Special Initiatives Division ITU-D.

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  1. 16.12.10 ITU role in promoting e-Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities Action Line C3: Access Internet Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities Tuesday 11 May 2010 14:30-16:00Room K Susan Schorr, Head a.i., Special Initiatives Division ITU-D

  2. Challenges and requirements in fostering Internet accessibility • Websites • Software and applications • Keyboards and mice • Smart phones • Video content

  3. ICT Accessibility in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Article 9 of the CRPD defines ICT accessibility as an integral part of accessibility rights on par with transportation and the physical environment. Article 9 concerns all ICT products and ICT based applications and services, with a far-reaching implication for industry, governments and civil society.

  4. ITU-D Role for ICT Accessibility Promoting ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities • Develop tools to assist countries • Provide platforms to share best practice and experiences. Guidelines for policy makers & regulators Support ICT projects for PwDs Capacity building to mainstream ICT accessibility into policies & legal frameworks

  5. Selected Activities & Projects • Development of the e-Accessibility toolkit • ICT projects in Senegal, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Mali , Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania & Burkina Faso • Capacity building-workshops • ITU-D Study Group Question 20/1-Guidelines & New Study Question • Connect a School, Connect a Community toolkit

  6. ITU- G3ict e-Accessibility Toolkit • Support ITU members in understanding the requirements of the Convention. • Assist ITU members in promoting accessible ICTs and identifying and eliminating any ICT accessibility barriers. • Provide a framework for the development of policies and strategies for mainstreaming digital accessibility at national, regional and international levels. • Serve as a global electronic repository of policies, international standards, good practices and technical references on digital accessibility. • Provide specific guidance to adequately address key issues of particular relevance to developing country environments

  7. Web site: www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org

  8. Example: Persons with Disabilities and the Internet

  9. Persons with disabilities and the Internet Persons with different kinds of disabilities use a variety of different technologies and Assistive Technologies to access information on the internet. For instance, blind persons use screen readers, persons with low vision use glasses, screen magnifiers or CC TV cameras, persons with motor impairments may use speech recognition programmes, one-handed key boards etc, deaf persons use cochlear implants, persons with cognitive impairments may use software like word prediction software and persons with multiple disabilities may use a combination of all these to successfully use computers.  These persons also encounter different kinds of obstacles while trying to access the internet depending upon the nature of their disability and kind of assistive technologies which they use. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which is a wing of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has come out with a set of guidelines called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 which set out the criteria for creating web sites which will be accessible to persons having different kinds of disabilities.

  10. Example: Internet Accessibility Resources • Assistive Technologies—Screen readers for the blind—Screen magnifiers for those with low vision—Speech recognition programmes for those with motor impairments—One handed keyboards —Braille-based solutions • Business Case for web accessibility—Useful for older persons, illiterate people and others—Corporate social responsibility—Facilitate website development • Guidelines and regulations for web accessibility —Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines—Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—Accessibility regulation around the world—Sample of regulations

  11. Examples of Good Practices from Around the world • Government web sites • U.S. Government Sec 508 website: http://www.section508.gov/ • U.K. Govt public services portal (WCAG 1.0 compliant): http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm • Private sector web sites • IBM - http://www-03.ibm.com/able/access_ibm/index.html • Banking • Wells Fargo (granted Nonvisual Accessibility Certification by the National Federation of the Blind) : http://www.wellsfargo.com • e-commerce • Tesco (WCAG AA approved, all pages comply with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines): http://www.tesco.com • Transportation • Website of Transport for London( TFL) - http://www.tfl.gov.uk • Media web sites • BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk • Education web sites • Harvard (WCAG 1.0 Priority 1 compliant): http://www.harvard.edu • Social networking sites • LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com

  12. Links to helpful resources • Summary: Introduction to web accessibilityReference:http://www.w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted/Overview.htmlKeywords: Web accessibilityTarget Audience: Web developers; Accessibility policy makers; Everyone • Summary: How people with disabilities access the webReference: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-webKeywords: disability; web access; assistive technologyTarget Audience: Everyone • Standards and Guidelines • Summary: Web Content Accessibility GuidelinesReference: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.phpKeywords: W3C; WCAG; WAI; accessibility guidelinesTarget Audience: Web developers; Accessibility policy makers • Summary: W3C guidelines on developing websites for mobile users as well as people with disabilitiesReference:http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/Keywords: Mobile; accessibility; disabilityTarget Audience: Web developers

  13. Other topics • Role of public procurement • Role of technical standards • Guidelines by policy areas • Much, much more

  14. Toolkit Editorial Committee Dónal Rice NDA/CEUD, NUI-Galway (Editorial Coordinator) Asenath Mpatwa, ITU-D Ambassador Luis Gallegos, G3ict Axel Leblois, G3ict Clara Luz Alvarez Tamas Babinszki, Even Grounds Kevin Carey, RNIB/World Blind Union Anne-Rivers Forcke, IBM Corporation Rune Halvorsen, NOVA Inmaculada Placienca Porrero, European Commission Felicity Rawlins, IBM Corporation Andrea Saks, ITU Licia Sbattella, Politecnico di Milano Susan Schorr, ITU-D James Thurston, Microsoft Bob English, TecAccess

  15. Contributors J. E. Baker, L. McArthur, J. Silva, Jutta Treviranus, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto David Baylor, WBU Hardik Bhatt and Karen Tamley, City of Chicago Fernando Botelho, Literacy Bridge & Mais Diferenças Gerald Craddock, NDA/CEUD, Ireland Bob English, TecAccess Jonathan Freeman, WGBH Angela Garabagiu, Council of Europe Larry Goldberg, WGBH Bill Joley, International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) Mike Jones, Wireless RERC, Georgia Institute of Technology Hiroshi Kawamura, DAISY Consortium Ben Lippincott, Wireless RERC, Georgia Institute of Technology Mike Paciello, The Paciello Group Helen Petrie, University of York David Sloan, University of Dundee Mike Starling, WBU Karen Tamley, City of Chicago Gregg Vanderheiden, University of Winsconsin-Madison Carlos Velasco, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technologies (FIT) Cynthia Waddell, International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) Chuck Wilsker, Telework Coalition Gottfried Zimmermann, Access Technologies   

  16. Thank You! 13-15October 2009 Incheon, Republic of Korea For more information: susan.schorr@itu.int

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