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Harmonising the Accessibility Expertise in Europe

Harmonising the Accessibility Expertise in Europe. Roberto Castaldo E&O Manager IWA/HWG Italy rcastaldo@webaccessibile.org. First European e-Accessibility Forum Accessible on-line services, a benefit for all Paris, Jan 29 2007. Agenda. Today’s Web Who’s a Web Professional?

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Harmonising the Accessibility Expertise in Europe

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  1. Harmonising the Accessibility Expertise in Europe Roberto Castaldo E&O Manager IWA/HWG Italy rcastaldo@webaccessibile.org First European e-Accessibility Forum Accessible on-line services, a benefit for all Paris, Jan 29 2007

  2. Agenda • Today’s Web • Who’s a Web Professional? • IWA/HWG challange

  3. Today’s Web • Web quality • Web Standards • Accessibility • Usability • Many developers are not aware of them

  4. Today’s Web How many “web professionals” use visual-onlytools?

  5. Today’s Web How many “web professionals” know what accessibility is?

  6. Gaps… • Web Developers • Deal with pages, db, code… • Web Managers • Decide what and how • Teachers • Transmit technical knowledge and ethical values

  7. Developers’ gaps • Creating usable and accessible Web sites: • Requires “some” technical skills • Will never be automated • Is not so difficult • Bad habits are hard to defeat

  8. Managers’ gaps • Managers ignore that: • Web is not TV • Accessibility is NOT an optional • Accessible Web sites are not necessarily ugly

  9. Teachers’ gaps • Teachers • Are developers themselves • Risk to transfer and pass on their gaps and lacks

  10. Education • Technical knowledge • Web standards, languages, best practices and tools • Ethical codes and moral values • Users needs, universal access, pwd rights

  11. The webmaster The Webmaster’s Fairytale Once upon a time…there was a Webmaster I can build any Web site I can do all about theWeb

  12. The webmaster The Webmaster’s Fairytale • Today • Technologies and tools have changed • Webmaster is an unspecific and out-of-date word • “I-can-do-all” easily means “I-can-do-nothing-well”

  13. The webmaster The Webmaster’s Fairytale • Today • A single Webmaster cannot develop by himself a complex Web application • Working groups are better • Many professions (and professionals) working together

  14. The webmaster The Webmaster’s Fairytale • So, Web professionals should be able to: • Specialize in one specific area • Learn to work in team • Share their experiences and skills

  15. The webmaster The Webmaster’s Fairytale The Webmasters fairytale is over, and there’s no happy ending.

  16. Web professions • The Web broke many old rules in all human activities New marketsNew professions • Old professions transformed

  17. New Web professions • Which are the new Web professions? • Which are the skills each of them requires?

  18. Web professions’ pitfall • Face this new market off the cuff • Think up professions in peculiar and odd ways • Reach completely uncertain and not comparable skills

  19. Web professions’ challenge • Encourage a systematic approach • Guarantee the diffusion of a basic, minimum, homogeneous and comparable set of skills

  20. Web professions’ challenge • New rules and professions require new and common educational paths • So Web professionals will get that common knowledge that new Web professions require

  21. IWA/HWG • Non-profit professional association • 106 countries • 130 local offices • >160.000 associated http://www.iwa.eu

  22. IWA/HWG mission • Provide and foster to its members: • Motivations to work correctly to enhance their effectiveness, image, and professionalism • Professional advancement opportunities

  23. IWA/HWG Is involved with: • W3C • ISO • EAC (EuroAccessibility Consortium) • Italian Government • “Stanca Act”, the Italian law about Web accessibility

  24. IWA/HWG Gabriele Bartolini - Evaluation & Repair Tools WG Marco Bertoni - WCAG WG Alessio Cartocci - Multimedia Semantics Incubator WG Roberto Castaldo - E&O, WGAC WGs Roberto Ellero - Multimedia Semantics Incubator and WCAG WG Fabrizio Gramuglio - Multimodal Interaction, Voice Browser WG Gez Lemon – WCAG WG Ben Logan - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) WG Luca Mascaro - Device Independence, HTML, Web APIs, Web Application Formats, WCAG WGs Giorgio Natili - Mobile Web Best Practice, Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites WGs Sebastiano Nutarelli – WCAG WG Pasquale Popolizio – E&O, Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO), Multimedia Semantics Incubator WGs, Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) Interest Group Roberto Scano - Advisory Committee, ATAG, Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO), WCAG WGs Robert Sobkoviak - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) WG Is involved with: • W3C • ISO • EAC (EuroAccessibility Consortium) • Italian Government • “Stanca Act”, the Italian law about Web accessibility

  25. IWA/HWG actions • Education of professionals/teachers • Technical seminaries and structured courses • Education guidelines • CWP WAS(Certified Web Professional - Web Accessibility Specialist) • IEAS(IWA European Accessibility Syllabus)

  26. CWP WAS skill profiles • WAS Web Operator • Basic common skills • WAS Web Designer • WAS Content Manager • WAS Application Developer • WAS Certified Trainer

  27. IEASIWA European Accessibility Syllabus 5 days, 5 modules • Users & Web, markup languages, XHTML • CSS, Cascade Style Sheets • Accessibile Multimedia • Evaluation • Web accessibility laws

  28. CEN and IWA/HWG • CEN European ICT Skills Meta-Frameworkftp://ftp.cenorm.be/PUBLIC/CWAs/e-Europe/ICT-Skill/CWA15515-00-2006-Feb.pdf • Includes IWA/HWG to provide educational certifications about Web professions

  29. IWA Web Skills Working Group Dec 2006 – March 2007 • Mission: • Outline Web professions and relative skills • Professionals from: • Public and private companies • Italian government agancies

  30. IWA Web Skills Working Group Skill profile 1 Skill profile 2 Web profession 2 Skill profile 3 Web profession Skills Experience

  31. IWA Web Skills Working Group Our challenge • Face many different scenarios • Work for the market • Not copy the market http://www.skillprofiles.eu

  32. Web professions outlook • Future Web will count on: • Global educational system • Common technical knowledge • Shared moral codes

  33. Web outlook • Future Web professional will have more technical and cultural weapons to make a more accessible Web, a better Web.

  34. Links and references Present • IWAhttp://www.iwa.eu, http://www.iwa-italy.org • CWP WAS skill profileshttp://www.iwanet.org/argomento.asp?cat=38 • IEASclasshttp://www.iwanet.org/argomento.asp?cat=53 • CEN European ICT Skills Meta-Frameworkftp://ftp.cenorm.be/PUBLIC/CWAs/e-Europe/ICT-Skill/CWA15515-00-2006-Feb.pdf • IWA Skill Profiles Working Group Web sitehttp://www.skillprofiles.eu Near future

  35. Thanks Thank you foryour attention Grazie

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