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WEB-Accessibility

Chisinau, Moldova, 14 th September 2011 Sean O Siochru. WEB-Accessibility. Goal of Web-Accessibility.

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WEB-Accessibility

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  1. Chisinau, Moldova, 14th September 2011 Sean O Siochru WEB-Accessibility

  2. Goal of Web-Accessibility • ... is to ensure that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate and interact with the Web – including contributing to the Web - to achieve their goals as effectively as can able-bodied people.

  3. Web Accessibility for People with Disability

  4. All the technology is there. • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have developed excellent technologies, toolkits, evaluation methodologies – everything you need is there. • The problem is the gap between what is technically possible, and what happens on the ground!

  5. Principles of Web Accessibility • Perceivable: users must be able to perceive the information presented • Operable: The user interface navigation must be capable of operation by users • Understandable: Information must be understandable • Robust: Content must be robust enough to be accessible by many users and assistive technologies

  6. Why Promote eAccessibility (apart from being a good thing!)? • Web accessibility need not cost more • Web accessibility can benefit everyone • Temporary disability and aging • Redundant content suits learning styles • Low bandwidth users can access more • Caption good for indexing • Facilitates migration to new media • People with disabilities a new market! • Enhanced public service deliver

  7. Some Web Assistive Tools • Alternative to keyboards or switches • Braille and refreshable Braille • Scanning software • Screen magnifiers • Screen readers • Speech recognition • Speech synthesis • Tabbing through structured elements • Text browsers • Visual notification • Voice browsers

  8. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

  9. ICT Tools for Special Needs • United Nations Global Alliance for ICT & Development (GAID): Flagship Project • G3ICT: Public-private partnership for the Digital Accessibility Agenda and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Raise awareness of effective public policy • Web platform to enable sharing of solutions • Harmonisation and standardisation • Produce Toolkits and Benchmarking

  10. Toolkit and Case Studies

  11. AbleData: Assistive Technology • National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research • 40,000 searchable listings • Large Library of research and resources • Database of international organisations and groups

  12. Conclusion • eAccessibility makes economic sense • The technology is all there • The toolkits and support network are ready to help • As we shall see, the UN and EU political context is strongly supportive • The main thing missing is the will to commit to this.

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