Open Consultations on Internet and Accessibility
"Access to the Internet for
Persons with Disabilities and specific needs“
February 15th 2016
Accessibility Awareness
Andrea J saks
International Telecommunications Specialist for the Deaf
Chairman ITU JCA-AHF (Joint Coordinating Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors)
Coordinator IGF DCAD (Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability)
Technical Guidelines
• We already have:
– IUT-T Accessibility Checklist
– W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG) and other guidelines
• These guidelines provide information on
accessible designs for Web (and Internet)
Policies
• Many Governments have adopted
policies to make websites and the
internet accessible using these Guidelines.
• W3C WCAG has been adopted world
wide
Question ?
• Yet there are many website that are not
Accessible
• WHY?
Education and Awareness
• We need more awareness of Accessibility
• Awareness training on how the web is used
by persons with disabilities is imperative
• Training in schools, classes and especially for
web developers and designers.
Basic Barriers in Accessing Information
• No captioning for Videos and too few signed Videos
• Not enough use of ICONs or pictograms for persons
with illiteracy or who lack the skills of the language
• Screen readers need labels on photos not blank
squares that can’t be identified
• Layout that is beautiful but is not logical for
searching for content is hard for everyone.
• A website should not be too full or not well
structured and could need a table of contents
Persons who have difficulties Need
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More Audio description: videos need audio description
San serif Fonts and the abilities to increase font size
web pages with clear headings
All pictures and photo especially those with links need
description labels in text for screen readers
• Clear uncluttered websites that help navigation
• No moving targets to access links
• Or a link to an accessible page for the same
information .
Design Verses Accessibility
• Designers can create websites for the masses and take
accessibility into account
• They need to remember all people may not have a written
language
• Remember timing issues make it hard to select in time
• Too many hyperlinks and unidentified pictures make hard
for screen readers to help
• Videos without captioning or audio description leave many
people out the information society.
Some New Recommendations
• FSTP-ACC-RemPart - Guidelines for supporting
remote participation in meetings for all
• FSTP-AM - Guidelines for accessible meetings
• ITU-T F.791 (11/2015) Accessibility terms and
definitions
• ITU-T H.702 (11/2015) Accessibility profiles for IPTV
systems