VI Jornadas del Sidar Accesibilidad y Experiencia del Usuario Politicas en el Mundo

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VI Jornadas del Sidar Accesibilidad y
Experiencia del Usuario Politicas en el Mundo

• 23 de octubre de 2002
• Mike Burks
• ATT/ICDRI
• mburks952_at_att.net

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Technology changes civil rights do not!-
Cynthia Waddell Executive Director the
International Center for Disability Resources on
the Internet
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Speaker Introduction

• Michael R. Burks
• Accessibility Expert ATT WorldNet Service
• Webmaster ICDRI

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Organization Introduction

• ICDRI http//www.icdri.org
• Internationally recognized as a public policy
  center organized by and for people with
  disabilities
• Collects a global knowledge base of quality
  disability resources and best practices
• Provides education, outreach and training based
  on these core resources
• ICDRI seeks to increase opportunities for people
  with disabilities by identifying barriers to
  participation and promoting best practices and
  universal design of technology for the global
  community.

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Law and Policy InitiativesCurrent Standards

• W3C WAI WCAG 1.0
• U. S. Section 508

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Law and Policy Initiatives

• UN Efforts
• EU Initiatives
• Efforts by EU Members
• U. S. Law and Policy Efforts
• Initiatives in Other Areas

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UN Efforts

• Rule 5 of the Standard Rules on the Equalization
  of Opportunities for People with Disabilities
  deals with access to communications
• Rule is found at http//www.un.org/esa/socdev/ena
  ble/dissre04.htm

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EU Initiatives

• eEurope 2002 Action Plan
• Priorities in the field of e-accessibility
• Policies to avoid info-exclusion
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines for
  public websites
• Publication of Design for all standards
• Review relevant legislation and standards
• Establishment of national centres of excellence
  in Design for all.
• - Unpublished work of Rianne ten Veen

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EU Initiatives

• Activities Since eEurope 2002 adoption
• Sep 01 Commission Communication eEurope 2002
  Accessibility of Public Web Sites and their
  content
• Oct 01 Council Resolution on e-inclusion
• March 02 Council Recommendation on Web
  Accessibility Initiative guidelines
• April 02 European network of Centres of
  Excellence/ National Contact Centres
• June 02 eEurope 2005
• - Unpublished work of Rianne ten Veen

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EU Initiatives

• Future Activities
• 2002 Adoption of Council Recommendation on
  e-accessibility
• 2003 European Year of People with Disabilities
• June 2003 implementation Telecoms package
• By end 2004 basic public services in Member
  States should be accessible for all (key target
  eEurope 2005)
• - Unpublished work of Rianne ten Veen

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Efforts by European Nations

• Belgium
• Web Accessibility is included in the e-government
  idea but as yet detailed specifications have not
  yet been developed.

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Efforts by European Nations

• Denmark
• W3C WCAG, Priority Level One standards are part
  of the national guidelines for accessible web
  design standards for accessible public
  publications and advisory activity between
  public web masters.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Finland
• W3C WCAG, Priority Level One standards have been
  adopted as part of the Public Administration
  Recommendations in the JHS 129 Guidelines
  concerning development of e-Services, Ministry of
  the Interior, December 2000. See
  http//www.intermin.fi/juhta/suositukset/jhs129.ht
  m.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• France
• In application of the 12th October 1999
  administrative guidelines (circulaire), the
  "Mission pour les Technologies de l'Information
  et de la Communication" (MTIC) of the Prime
  Minister has published standards for
  accessibility of public web sites. This action
  aims to promote the following documentation and
  tools among public sector Webmasters, which are
  already available on MTIC's web site at
  http//www.atica.pm.gouv.fr/interop/accessibilite/
  index.shtml
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Germany
• The federal government and the governments of the
  Länder are working on taking up the W3C WCAG,
  Priority Level One standards.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Greece
• Official adoption of the Guidelines and the
  practical implementation plan for existing and
  future public web sites are currently the subject
  of deliberations under the auspices of the
  Secretary for Information Society of the Hellenic
  Ministry of National Economy.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Ireland
• Recommended Government Guidelines on Web
  Publication for Public Sector Organisations have
  been published, which include guidelines in
  relation to accessibility. A target has been set
  for all government Department web sites to
  achieve level A compliance by the end of April
  2001, with achievement of level AA compliance as
  a target for the end of 2001.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Italy
• On March 13th, 2001, the Ministry of Public
  Function signed a Cabinet Resolution with the
  title "Linee Guida per l'organizzazione,
  l'usabilità e l'accessibilità dei siti Web delle
  Pubbliche Amministrazioni". See the following web
  sites
• http//www.funzionepubblica.it/download/pdf/access
  ibilita.pdf
• http//www.governo.it/sez_dossier/linee_web/dirett
  iva.html
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Luxemborg
• In February 2001, the government adopted a
  national action plan e-Luxembourg. The
  Guidelines will be included in the e-government
  concept (one of the six main targets of the
  e-Luxembourg programme).
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Netherlands
• The Guidelines have been recommended by the
  Minister of Public Health, Welfare, and Sport in
  February 2001. There is ongoing development of
  adoption plans.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• Sweden
• Accessibility to information is included in the
  government bill "From patient to citizen a
  national action plan for disability policy".
• A government ordinance concerning state
  government authorities and their responsibility
  for implementing the disability policy has
  recently been issued.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Efforts by European Nations

• United Kingdom
• The current guidelines for UK government web
  sites were published in late 1999.
• These guidelines are currently being investigated
  by the Office of the e-Envoy, and a draft is
  available at http//www.open.gov.uk/dev/neil/.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts Federal

• Federal Government Web Sites controlled by
  Section 508
• Other areas come under other laws such at the
  Americans with Disabilities Act

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• California
• The Chancellors Office of California Community
  Colleges issued Distance Education Access
  Guidelines for Students with Disabilities in
  August 1999. 
• http//www.htctu.fhda.edu/dlguidelines/final dl
  guidelines.htm

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• California
• The Chancellors office has issued  Guideline for
  Producing Instructional and other Printed
  Material in Alternate Media for Persons with
  Disabilities.  
• http//www.htctu.fhda.edu/amguidelines/am33000.htm
    

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Connecticut
• The state of Connecticut is addressing web
  accessibility with the CMAC Web Site
  Accessibility Subcommittee (CMAC-AC)
• http//www.cmac.state.ct.us/access 
• kathleen.anderson_at_po.state.ct.us

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Kentucky
• An "Information Technology" bill was passed
  through an amendment to SB 315, a larger bill to
  create the Governor's Office of Technology.
• The bill with the amendment was signed by
  Kentucky's Governor, Paul Patton.

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Maine
• Accessibility in Information Technology
• Website Accessibility Policy for State
  Websiteshttp//www.state.me.us/CIO/accessibility/
  webpolicy.html
• All State websites must comply with these
  accessibility standards.

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Missouri
• The state of Missouri is taking proactive action
  to make all electronic and information technology
  accessible to people with disabilities. 
• http//www.dolir.state.mo.us/matp/matc_eainit.htm 
  

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• New York
• New York has issued a policy to make all state
  websites accessible to people with disabilities. 
  
• The have issued a formal policy to this effect
  through the Office of Technology.  These
  guidelines can be found at
• Technology Policy 99-3 http//www.oft.state.ny.us
  /policy/AccessCharter.htm  

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• North Carolina
• North Carolina has adopted a Policy that all
  electronic and Information Technology used by
  entities under the Aegis of the IRMC in the state
  of North Carolina be accessible to people with
  disabilties.  The report of the committee that
  developed these guidelines is found at
• http//irmc.state.nc.us/access/.

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• North Dakota
• On September 25, 2001, North Dakota issued its
  website accessibility policy.
• http//www.state.nd.us/itd/planning/doc/dp005-01.p
  df

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Pennsylvania
• "All Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Web sites must
  adhere to existing Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  policies and restrictions regarding Internet and
  Intranets."  Quoted from the Policy Statement,
  for additional information go to
•  http//www.oit.state.pa.us/oit/Policy/view.asp?Q
  16655  

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Texas
• The Department of Information Resources proposes
  new rule 201.12 concerning state web
  sites.http//www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/N
  ovember121999/PROPOSED/administration.html60
• Revised version can be found at
  http//www.state.tx.us/Standards/S201-12.htm

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• Utah
• The state of Utah adopted web accessibility
  guidelines on January 9, 2001.  The standards
  page is located at http//www.dced.state.ut.us/gi
  ls/standards.htm
• The Utah accessibility standards document is
  located at http//www.cio.state.ut.us/Docs/Itpsc0
  1/0101Tab13WebStd01.09.01.doc
• The User Name is user the password is the same.

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U. S. Law and Policy Efforts State by State

• West Virginia
• In 2001, West Virginia passed SB 476 in the
  legislature. It covers visually impaired
  individuals. Other advocacy groups in West
  Virginia plan to broaden the language of the IT
  Access Act to include other disabilities.

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Initiatives in Other Areas

• There is also important work going on in other
  areas.

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Australia

• Online information and services must be
  accessible to people with disabilities under the
  Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA).
• Australian Commonwealth Websites must be
  accessible as well.
• See http//www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standard
  s/accessibility.htm
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Canada

• In May 2000, the government of Canada adopted a
  policy for all federal government organizations
  that requires conformance to W3C WCAG Priority 1
  and 2 Checkpoints.
• This "Common Look and Feel for the Internet"
  policy is found at http//www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/clf-up
  e/.

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Japan

• The e-Japan Policy program for barrier-free
  access has resulted in significant policies
  impacting the accessible web. On 29 March 2001,
  the government IT Strategy Headquarters announced
  a number of policies, such as
• Web sites of ministries and agencies shall be
  accessible so that government information on the
  Web can be easily utilized by people with visual
  disabilities
• Official Gazettes distributed over the Web will
  be tailored to the needs of people with visual
  disabilities
• . -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter
  2 By Cynthia Waddell

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Japan

• So that people with visual and hearing
  disabilities can enjoy broadcast services just
  like people without disabilities, RD activities
  on production technologies for broadcast
  programming will be conducted with the costs of
  programming for closed captions, explanatory
  narration, and sign languages to be subsidized
• School environments for children who are blind or
  deaf and with other disabilities will be
  addressed so that computers can be utilized by
  the students
• RD activities will be conducted to provide
  children in hospital with the ability to study
  through the Web
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Japan

• IT equipment and systems that can be easily used
  by the elderly and people with disabilities shall
  be developed
• Technologies will be developed to enable the
  elderly and people with disabilities to use the
  Internet easily, an accessibility checking system
  of web sites will be created, and verification
  experiments will be conducted for the promotion
  of a barrier-free environment of information
  access
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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New Zealand

•  Proposed Guidelines for New Zealand government
  web sites have been developed by Government
  Information Managers' Forum (GOVIS) with the help
  of the web developers support forum.
• http//www.govt.nz/egovt/guidelines/web-guidelines
  /index.html

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Singapore

• The The National Internet Advisory Committee
• (NIAC)released their 2001 report that discusses
  disability issues including greater education and
  promotion of web accessibility requirements at
  Paragraph 4.11 of the report. The NIAC noted the
  availability of guidelines to assist web site
  designers in designing accessible web sites and
  encourages their use.
• The report is available at http//www.sba.gov.sg/
  sba/detailed.jsp?artid362typeid1cid0bSubmitB
  ytrue.
• -From Constructing Accessible Web Sites Chapter 2
  By Cynthia Waddell

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Conclusion

• Summary and Challenges Ahead
• Basic Standards are needed
• Developers of EIT and web technology will not
  have to meet several different standards.
• There must be something on which to base legal
  and policy decisions 
• As technology evolves, standards for accessiblity
  must evolve as well.
• If not technology will move on, and people with
  disabilities will be left behind.again.

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Conclusion

• Progress Made
• Legal and Policy Mandates are insuring progress
  in the accessiblity of web sites and EIT. Much
  of the progress made in techniques and software
  such as web production tools, and assessment
  tools are due at least in part to accessibility
  laws and policies being implemented on a global
  scale.

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Conclusion

• Progress to Come
• When Universal Access is truly an integral part
  of the design of all new products then we will
  have taken the road to including everyone.

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References

• Constructing Accessible Web Sites, Chapter 2, by
  Cynthia Waddell, Published by glasshaus, April
  2002
• Collected Works Of Cynthia Waddell
  http//www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/cynthia_waddell.htm
• Unpublished work of Rianne ten Veen
• RESNA Assistive Technology Act Projects'
  Activities and Initiatives http//www.resna.org/t
  aproject/policy/initiatives/508.htmlata

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Acknowledgements

• Cynthia Waddell, Executive Director ICDRI
• Rianne ten Veen, Advisory Board ICDRI
• Jose Luis Pardos, Board of Directors ICDRI

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