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Making ICT Accessibility a
Reality: Policies and Standards
on the Public Procurement of
Accessible ICTs
Session 181
Monday, 11:00 – 13:00
Popov Room 2, ITU Tower
Moderator: Dónal RICE, Senior Design Advisor, ICT.
Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, National
Disability Authority, Ireland
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Welcome!
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Speakers
 Session Introduction: Kemal Huseinovic, Chief Infrastructure,
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Enabling Environment and E-Application Department (IEE), ITU
Bureau of Telecommunication Development (BDT)
Alejandro MOLEDO, New technologies & innovation officer,
European Disability Forum
Shadi ABOU-ZAHRA, Activity Lead, WAI International Program
Office W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
David CAPOZZI, U.S. Access Board, United States of America
Inmaculada Placencia Porrero, Deputy Head of Unit, Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, DG JUST, European Commission
Masahito KAWAMORI, Rapporteur of ITU-T Q.26/16 ‘Accessibility
to multimedia systems and services’
Gregg VANDERHEIDEN Ph.D., Director Trace R&D Center,
University of Wisconsin /University of Maryland (remote
participant)
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Kemal Huseinovic,
Chief Infrastructure, Enabling
Environment and E-Application
Department (IEE), ITU Bureau
of Telecommunication
Development (BDT)
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“Disability need not be an
obstacle to success.”
 Disability does not necessarily need to
be an obstacle to success.
 Arguably the world’s most famous
scientist, Professor Stephen W
Hawking, has credited much of his
success to accessible ICTs.
 Children, teenagers, adults and older
persons with disabilities world wide
are benefitting from being able to use
accessible ICTs for education, leisure
and recreation, and employment.
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Examples of accessibility
features on mainstream ICTs
Provide Alternative Text for images
The image on the left shows an image that has no Alternative Text
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Importance of public
procurement
 WTO
10-15% of GDP globally
 EU
16-17% of GDP within the EU
 "Socially responsible public
procurement (SRPP)”
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Importance of public
procurement
“Public procurement is one of the most flexible and
far-reaching legislative instruments available to the Governemnt”
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Accessible ICT PP can:
 Improve inclusion of persons with
disability in education, employment,
economic and social life
 Deliver better value for money for
governments and public authorities
 Incentivise manufacturers and suppliers
to innovate and produce better, more
accessible technology
 Improve over-all quality of ICTs by
making them more user-friendly
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Model ICT Accessibility Policy
Report
 Provides policy guidelines and legal and
regulatory framework
 Designed to help countries develop their own
accessibility policies and regulations
 Modular design includes stand-alone
sections on:
 Model ICT legal, policy and regulatory framework
 Model ICT accessibility framework on public access
 Model mobile communications accessibility policy
framework
 Model television/video programming accessibility
framework
 Model web accessibility policy framework
 Model accessible ICT public procurement policy
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framework
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Digital-Inclusion/Pages/Reports.aspx
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Key resource 2
 Online Training: Public
Procurement of accessible
ICT products and services
 More info at
https://academy.itu.int
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Alejandro MOLEDO,
New technologies & innovation
officer, European Disability
Forum
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Shadi ABOU-ZAHRA,
Activity Lead, WAI International
Program Office W3C Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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International Standards for
Web Accessibility
Shadi Abou-Zahra
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
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World Wide Web
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Accessibility Support
Copyright © 2016 W3C (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang)
Web Accessibility
Internationally recognized accessibility standards:
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Also available as ISO/IEC 40500
• Referenced in Section 508 (US)
• Included in EN 301 549 (Europe)
• Adopted as JIS X 8341-3 (Japan)
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• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG)
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)
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Thank You
Shadi Abou-Zahra
Activity Lead, WAI International Program Office
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://w3.org/WAI/
shadi@w3.org
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David CAPOZZI,
U.S. Access Board, United
States of America
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World Summit on the Information
Society Forum 2016
Making ICT Accessibility a Reality:
Policies and Standards on the Public
Procurement of Accessible ICTs
David Capozzi, U.S. Access Board
May 2, 2016
Access Board Programs
• Guidelines and standards development
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Architectural Barriers Act (1968)
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Communications Act (1996)
Rehabilitation Act Amendments (1998)
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)
• Technical Assistance and Training
• Research
• Enforcement of the Architectural Barriers Act
Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act Amendments
• Requires the Access Board to develop
standards and keep them up to date
• Incorporates the standards in the Federal
Acquisition Regulations
• Technical assistance
• Biannual report from DOJ
• Enforcement
Harmonization
• In 2004 standards cooperation between the U.S.
and the European Union began to promote and
harmonize requirements for accessible ICT
• The EN 301 549 (2014) standard is largely
based on the Access Board’s 2011 ANPRM
• Next step – finalize our rule and continue
harmonization efforts
Implementation Challenges
• Department of Justice report on federal government Section 508
compliance activities found:
• compliance rates for federal web sites varied from 61 to 95
percent
• about half of contract offices used requirements from the Section
508 standards in procurement requests
• Strategic Plan for Improving Management of Section 508:
• report to OMB using a standard government-wide template in
reporting baseline compliance of key measures
• include an accessibility statement on all inter- and intranet
websites
Section 508 Limitations
• Only applies to federal agencies
• Complaints are filed with the agency that
is alleged to be in non-compliance
• No central authority to ensure oversight
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Inmaculada Placencia
Porrero,
Deputy Head of Unit, Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, DG
JUST, European Commission
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European Accessibility Policies
Inmaculada Placencia Porrero
European Commission
Inmaculada.placencia-porrero@ec.europa.eu
Why an European Accessibility Act?
Legal obligations and economic reasons
• The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(UNCRPD) entered into force for the EU in 2011
• Its obligations increase the risk of divergent accessibility
legislations in MS
• The EAA helps to implement the obligations of article 9 on
Accessibility
• Free circulation of accessible products & services  more
accessible and cheaper products/services for 80M of EU citizens
• Divergence of national legislations  fragmentation of the EU
Market  counterproductive for enterprises
• Opening markets for being ready for global competitiveness
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Concepts
• Rights - >Non-discrimination ->
equal access!!!!
• Accessibility
• (following design for all)
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• reasonable accommodation
• (assistive technologies
• assistance)
European legislation on accessibility
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Draft Antidiscrimination legislation ????
Public Procurement Directives
Structural Funds regulations
Trans European Networks
Sector-specific legislation (Low platform buses; Lifts; TSI-
PRM, etc.)
• Common Implementing Regulation External Action and
contract procedures
• Web Accessibility – proposed Directive
• European Accessibility Act:proposed Directive
• Policy, Research, incentives, awareness raising
Accessibility related standardization work
at EU level
• Mandate 376: Accessibility requirements for public procurement
of products and services in the ICT domain
• Mandate 420: Accessibility requirements for public procurement
in the Built Environment (including transport infrastructures)
• Mandate 473 to:
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include Accessibility following Design For All in relevant standardization
activities
Develop standards addressing accessibility following Design for all in the
manufacturing and service delivery processes.
• Others…..
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Masahito KAWAMORI,
Rapporteur of ITU-T Q.26/16
‘Accessibility to multimedia
systems and services’
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Gregg VANDERHEIDEN Ph.D.,
Director Trace R&D Center,
University of Wisconsin
/University of Maryland (remote
participant)
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Model ICT Accessibility Policy
Report
 Provides policy guidelines and legal and
regulatory framework
 Designed to help countries develop their own
accessibility policies and regulations
 Modular design includes stand-alone
sections on:
 Model ICT legal, policy and regulatory framework
 Model ICT accessibility framework on public access
 Model mobile communications accessibility policy
framework
 Model television/video programming accessibility
framework
 Model web accessibility policy framework
 Model accessible ICT public procurement policy
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framework
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Digital-Inclusion/Pages/Reports.aspx
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Key resource 2
 Online Training: Public
Procurement of accessible
ICT products and services
 More info at
https://academy.itu.int
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Session jointly organized by
 ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
 ITU Telecommunication Development
Sector (ITU-D) within the framework
of the EUR Regional initiative on ICT
accessibility
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