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E-Accessibility Workshop 10/11 May 2012

E-Accessibility Workshop 10/11 May 2012. Micah Rachuonyo – KEBS rachuonyom@kebs.org. STANDARDS AND DISABILITY MAINSTREAMING. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 01. of. Standardization. Levels. International level. Regional. National. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 02.

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E-Accessibility Workshop 10/11 May 2012

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  1. E-AccessibilityWorkshop10/11 May 2012 Micah Rachuonyo – KEBS rachuonyom@kebs.org

  2. STANDARDS AND DISABILITY MAINSTREAMING

  3. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 01 of Standardization Levels International level Regional National

  4. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 02 The need for (International) Standards • Economic: • Dissemination of technology • Interoperability • Assessment of performance • Trade and business relations • b. Environmental dimension • Production and processing activities • Social dimension • Health & safety and Ergonomics & Accessibility design • Security matters • Ethical Behaviour

  5. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 03 The need for (International) Standards • Economic: • Dissemination of technology • Interoperability • Assessment of performance • Trade and business relations • b. Environmental dimension • Production and processing activities • Social dimension • Health & safety and Ergonomics & Accessibility design • Security matters • Ethical Behaviour

  6. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 04 Standards and Trade

  7. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 05 The need for (International) Standards • Economic: • Dissemination of technology • Interoperability • Assessment of performance • Trade and business relations • b. Environmental dimension • Production and processing activities • Social dimension • Health & safety and Ergonomics & Accessibility design • Security matters • Ethical Behaviour

  8. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 06 • Social dimension of standardization • Health & Safety and Ergonomics (Accessibility Design) • 2. Security matters • Ethical Behaviour

  9. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 07 A principle of International Standardization “do it once, do it right, do it internationally”

  10. STANDARDS AND MAINSTREAMING - 08 ERGONOMICS & ACCESSIBILITY Ergonomics An applied science concerned with designing and arranging objects & environments people use in a safer and more efficient manner Accessibility (ISO/TR 22411) extent to which products, systems, services, environments or facilities can be used by people from a population with the widest range of capabilities to achieve a specified goal in a specified context of use

  11. STANDARDS - 02 • Standardization process involves experts from various institutions and organizations. The experts form Technical Committees (TC) composed of interested parties/ stakeholders • Standardization process has rules and regulations • Standardization process has guidelines

  12. KEBS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE KEBS TC 132 – Assistive products for persons with Disabilities Mirrored to: ISO TC 173 - Assistive products for persons with disability

  13. ASSISTIVE PRODUCTS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITY Some of the products developed by KEBS TC 132 include: KS 1320 – Wheelchairs KS 1319 – Wooden crutches KS 2349 – Orthosis (for various support needs) KS 2232 – Metal axillary crutches KS 2233 – Metal elbow crutches

  14. ERGONOMICS COMMITTEE • ISO TC 159 - Ergonomics • KEBS TC 143 SC 01 - Ergonomics

  15. ISO TC 159 - ERGONOMICS SC1 – General ergonomic principles CAG SC3 – Anthropometry and biomechanics AGAD SC4 – Ergonomics of human-system interaction WG2 – Ergonomics for people with special requirements SC5 – Ergonomics of the physical environment

  16. STANDARDS – Rules, Guides • ISO/IEC Directives • Core procedures for standards development work within ISO and IEC. • Formal explanation of rules guiding the progression of any standardization project. • ISO/IEC Guides • Provide a resource of helpful advice to standards writers . • Help deal with specialist issues, such as consumer needs, when writing standards. • Also useful for people not involved in standards work as the advice they contain can be generally applied to their subject areas.

  17. ISO/IEC GUIDE 71 - 01 Title: Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disability

  18. ISO/IEC GUIDE 71 - 02 • The Guide 71 aims to: • Inform, increase understanding and raise awareness • Outline relationship btw requirements in standards and the accessibility and usability of products and services • Raise awareness of benefits of adopting accessible design principles in terms of wider market The Guide 71 applies to: Products, services and environments The Guide 71: Offers description of body functions or human abilities and the practical implication of impairment

  19. Technical Committees

  20. ISO/TR 22411 Title: Ergonomics data and guidelines for the application of ISO/IEC Guide 71 to products and services to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities

  21. THE RELATIONSHIP - 01

  22. THE RELATIONSHIP - 02

  23. ISO/TR 22411 • This is a generic standard • The standard is the as guide in addressing accessibility issues in all other standards for products, services and environment

  24. ISO/TR 22411 • The standard addresses key issues which include • Human abilities and the usability of products, services and environments • Relationships between the requirements in standards and the accessibility and usability of products and services • Benefits of adopting international accessible design principles in terms of a wider market

  25. ISO/TR 22411 • The Standard outlines: • The process by which needs of older persons and persons with disabilities may be considered in development of standards • The descriptions of body functions or human abilities and profound implications of impairments

  26. ISO/TR 22411 • The three human abilities that must be addressed when designing accessible products, services and environments are: • Sensory abilities • Physical abilities • Cognitive abilities

  27. SENSORY ABILITIES • Disabilities associated with sensory abilities include • Loss of visual acuity (image appears indistinct) • Loss of distance vision • Perception of colour • Sensitivity to light and speed of adaptation to changing light levels • Design remedy may require tactile and acoustic input

  28. PHYSICAL ABILITIES – 01 • Dexterity:this relates to activities of the hand and arm use, particularly coordinated actions of handling objects, picking objects, manipulation and releasing them using hands, fingers and especially the thumb • Manipulation:Relates to activities of carrying, moving and manipulating objects. Actions involve arms, legs, feet, arms and hands. Actions involve reaching out, lifting, putting down, pulling, pushing etc.

  29. PHYSICAL ABILITIES – 02 • Movement: This involves the activities of maintaining and changing the body positions and transferring oneself from one area to another using legs, feet, arms and hands • Strength and Endurance: Strength is the force generated by contractions of muscle or muscle group. Related weaknesses include grip strength.

  30. PHYSICAL ABILITIES – 03 • Voice: This relates to sound produced by vocal organs, usually speech. Principal consequence is barrier to communication. Alternative forms of communication like sign language, speech amplification, speech synthesis or use of facsimile of keyboard maybe useful

  31. COGNITIVE ABILITIES – 01 • Cognitive abilities relate to central information processing like memory recall, directing attention, thinking, decision making, problem solving, language, perception through sensory information. • Key areas include: intellect, memory and language/literacy

  32. COGNITIVE ABILITIES – 02 • Intellect: Capacity to know, understand and reason. To address disabilities related to this, task complexities may be considered • Memory: Disabilities may relate to specific mental functions of registering and storing information and retrieving it as needed. Possible accessible design criteria involve systems that are “fail-safe” • Language/Literacy: This refers to functions of recognizing and using signs, symbols and other components of language

  33. ISO/TR 22411 –A GLANCE AT CLAUSE 8.12 • 8.12 Ease of handling • 8.12.1 Size, shape and mass • 8.12.2Instruction manuals and locations of marking • 8.12.3 Controls • 8.12.4 Containers and packaging • 8.12.5 Duration of actions • 8.12.6 Time responses • 8.12.7 Elements in a building

  34. THE TC PROCESS - 01 • Traditional key features for product standards • Performance; • Methods of measuring energy & water consumption, noise emission, heat generation etc. • Emerging issues: energy efficiency, accessibility and usability, interoperability • Product safety • Safety requirements • Emerging issues:Vulnerable people

  35. THE TC PROCESS - 02 • Starting point • The will/need to take into account needs of persons with disability. Are you aware of SO/IEC Guide 71? • Do you have ergonomic knowledge and data on human abilities? KS ISO/TR 22411

  36. THE TC PROCESS - 03 Step 1.Take into account the needs of older Persons and persons with disability Step 2. Apply the bridge document. Knowledge and data on human abilities Step 3. “Draft standard” having accessibility features mainstreamed

  37. THE TC PROCESS - 04 • Relevant criteria • User characteristics e.g. visual impairment • Task evaluation e.g. pressing a key • Measurement and measurement instruments • Test procedures

  38. THE TC PROCESS - 05 • Relevant criteria • Recommendations verses requirements • Comparisons verses evaluation

  39. ISO TC 59 SC16 • ISO TC59 – Buildings and Civil engineering works • ISO TC59 SC16 – accessibility and usability of the built environment ISO 21542, Building construction — Accessibility and usability of the built environment

  40. ISO TC159 ISO TC 159 - Ergonomics ISO /TC159 SC4, Ergonomics of human-system interaction ISO 9241 series of standards

  41. ISO 9241 SERIES OF STANDARDS • ISO 9241-20, Part 20- Accessibility guidelines for ICT equipment and services • ISO 9241-129, Part 129 – Guidance on individualization • ISO 9241-151, Part 151 – Guidance on World Wide Web user interfaces • ISO 9241-171, Part 171, Guidance on software accessibility

  42. ISO 9241 SERIES OF STANDARDS Ergonomic requirements for office work with VDTs Parts: 1 – 17 Ergonomics of human-system interaction Parts: 20, 129, 151, 171, 400, 410, 920

  43. ISO 9241-20 Title: Ergonomics of the human-system interaction Part 20 - Accessibility guidelines for information/communication technology (ICT) equipment and services Those responsible for: planning, designing, developing, acquiring and evaluating ICT equipment and services Application Applicable to all ICT equipment and services

  44. ISO 9241-20 Scope It provides guidelines for improving the accessibility of ICT equipment and services such that they will have wider accessibility for use at work, in the home, and in mobile and public environments. It covers issues associated with the design of equipment and services for people with a wide range of sensory, physical and cognitive abilities, including those who are temporarily disabled, and the elderly. It also provides general guidelines for acquiring and evaluating ICT equipment and services, including both hardware and software aspects of information processing equipment, electronic communication facilities, office machines, and other similar technologies and services, used at work, in the home, and in mobile and public environments. Application Applicable to all ICT equipment and services

  45. ISO 9241-20 Intended users Those responsible for: planning, designing, developing, acquiring and evaluating ICT equipment and services Application Applicable to all ICT equipment and services

  46. ISO 9241-20, Structure 4 Application 4.1 Principles 4.2 Application framework 4.3 Implementing the recommendations 4.4 Conformance 5 Accessibility 5.1 General 5.2 Context(s) of use and accessibility 5.3 Process 6 Recommendations related to managing development 6.1 Information accessibility policy 6.2 Development accountability

  47. ISO 9241-20, structure 7 Recommendations related to user characteristics 7.1 General 7.2 Vision 7.3 Hearing 7.4 Speech 7.5 Physical capabilities 7.6 Cognitive capabilities 8 Recommendations related to task characteristics. 8.1 Performing tasks based on context of use 8.2 Providing alternative ways of performing tasks 8.3 Performing maintenance and other non-task related operations

  48. ISO 9241-20, structure 9 Recommendations related to equipment and service characteristics 9.1 General 9.2 Other standards for ICT equipment and services 9.3 Assistive technologies 9.4 Selection and operation of ICT equipment and services 9.5 Preparation and completion of operation 10 Recommendations related to environmental characteristics 10.1 Operating in a range of environments 10.2 Designing environments 10.3 Impacting the environment

  49. ISO 9241-129 Title: Ergonomics of the human-system interaction part 129 – Guidance on individualization Scope Provides ergonomics guidance about individualization within interactive systems, including recommendations on: • where individualization might be appropriate or might be inappropriate • how to apply individualization focused on individualization of the software user interface to support the needs of users as individuals or as members of a defined group. Some of the guidance also can be applied to hardware user interfaces and user interfaces that combine software and hardware.

  50. ISO 9241-151 Title Ergonomics of the human-system interaction Part 151 – guidance on the World Wide Web user interfaces Scope: Provides guidance on the human-centred design of software Web user interfaces with the aim of increasing usability. Web user interfaces address either all Internet users or closed user groups such as the members of an organization, customers and/or suppliers of a company or other specific communities of users.

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