China Web Accessibility Standard
Wu Yinghua
wuyinghua@catr.cn
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Information Accessibility Standard
√ standard background
· development procedure
· Standard content
· Standard application
· Finality
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Standard development background
The second china national sampling survey statistical data
Common Persons
Disabled people 82，960，000
Total Population 6.34%
Disabled Persons
Visual Impaired
visual impaired 12，330，000 14.86%
audition impaired 20，040，000 24.16%
speech impaired 2，700，000 1.53%
Other
Audition Impaired
Speech Impaired
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Standard development background
• Chinese disabled people
long for browsing internet.
• Internet could give blind
children more opportunity
to enjoy good education.
• Internet could give blind
adults more opportunity to
get a job.
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Standard development background
• An accessible Web can provide equal access and
equal opportunity to people with disabilities.
• An accessible Web can also help people with disabilities
more actively participate in society.
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Information Accessibility Standard
· Standard background
√ Development procedure
· Standard content
· Standard application
· Finality
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Standard development procedure
Cooperate with social welfare organizations, investigate the
problems which the special persons have to face when they
browse internet.
– China Disabled Persons’ Federation(CDPF)
– China National Committee On Aging (CNCA)
– Internet Society of China (ISC)
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Standard development background
• Blind persons use screen reader software which could
not get all web content if the web pages is not well
designed according to accessible rules.
• Audition impaired persons have difficulty in browsing
video content.
• Older persons are troubled by crowded small characters
in the web page.
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Standard development procedure
Cooperate with accessible product developer to search
solutions and develop standard.
– China Braille Publishing House (CBPH)
– Haerbin E-times Digital Technology
– International Business Machines
– Hitachi , etc.
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In 2008, the First Chinese web
accessibility standard was issued
In Mar.13,2008, the First China web
accessibility standard was issued by
MIIT, which is named:
Information Accessibility – for
People with Physical Disabilities –
Technical Requirements for Web
Accessibility (YD 1761-2008)
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Information Accessibility Standard
· Standard background
· Development procedure
√ Standard content
· Standard application
· Finality
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Chinese web accessibility standard content
• The content of Chinese web accessibility standard includes
four parts about how to make the web page perceivable,
operable, understandable and compatible.
• In each part of the standard, detailed rules are given and each
rule are composed of three levels of requirements, lower level
requirements are easier to be satisfied than higher level ones.
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Chinese web accessibility standard content
The first part gives suggestions about how to make the web page
perceivable to all people:
– Provide text alternatives for all non-text content
– Provide synchronized alternatives for multimedia
– Ensure that information and structure can be separated from
presentation
– Make it easy to distinguish foreground information from its
background
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Chinese web accessibility standard content
The second part gives suggestions about how to make the web
page operable for all people:
– Make all functionality operable via a keyboard interface
– Allow users to control time limits on their reading or
interaction
– Allow users to avoid content that could cause seizures
– Provide mechanisms to help users find content, orient
themselves within it, and navigate through it
– Help users avoid mistakes and make it easy to correct
mistakes that do occur
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Chinese web accessibility standard content
The third part gives suggestions about how to make the web
page understandable to all people:
– Make text content readable and understandable.
– Make the placement and functionality of content
predictable.
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Chinese web accessibility standard content
The forth part gives some rules about web page compatibility:
– Support compatibility with current and future user agents
(including assistive technologies)
– Ensure that content is accessible or provide an accessible
alternative
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Information Accessibility Standard
· Standard background
· Development procedure
· Standard content
√ Standard application
· Finality
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Chinese Web Accessibility Standard Application
• In 2008, Olympic Games and Paralympics Games were held
in Beijing, these games drew attention of the world and lots
of news would be issued in web sites.
• In order to help people with disabilities browse internet,
CDPF,ISC and CCSA initiated a web accessibility action,
and use YD1761-2008 standard as a guideline standard.
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Standard Application in Beijing
• Several main government web sites and portal web site join this action,
built an accessible Olympic and Paralympics subject channel for people
with disabilities according to standard YD 1761-2008 ,
• The web sites include Beijing Olympic Official Web site, China Portal Web
site, CCTV, Xinhua, China Youth , sina, baidu, 21CN web site etc.
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Standard Application in Shanghai
In 2010，four government web sites initiated their web site
accessible transformation project according to our standard:
• the official website for the Shanghai Municipal People's
Government
• the official website for the Shanghai civil affairs bureau
• The official website for ShangHai Municipal Human
Resources and Social Security Bureau
• The official website for Shanghai Municipal Justice
Administration
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Information Accessibility Standard
· Standard background
· Development procedure
· Standard content
· Standard application
√ Finality
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Finality:
CATR have developed these information accessibility standards：
• Information Accessibility - for People with physical disabilities –
Technical Requirements for Web Accessibility （issued in Mar.
2008 by MIIT）
• Information Accessibility - for People with Physical Disabilities Testing Specification for Web Content Accessibility Evaluation
（issued in Jul. 2008 by MIIT）
• Information Accessibility Design Guidelines to Information
Terminal Equipment for Persons with Physical Disabilities（issued
in Dec. 2009 by MIIT）
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Finality:
CATR have developed these information accessibility：
• The Requirements of Hearing Aids Compatibility and Test Methods for
Telephone Handset （issued in Jun. 2009 by MIIT）
• Requirements and Test Methods for Compatibility between Wireless
Communication Devices and Hearing Aids（issued in Jul. 2007 by MIIT）
• Technological Requirement of Voice-Enabled Web Service（will be issued）
• Information Accessibility Technological Requirement for Call Center（will
be issued）
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Finality:
CATR has developed these information accessibility standard:
• Information Accessibility Technical Requirements for Deaf Assistant
System in Public Place（will be issued）
• Application profile – Sign language and lip-reading real-time
conversation using low bit-rate video communication（will be issued）
• Definitions, Symbols and Commands for Information Accessibility
（will be issued）
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Finality:
Research direction：
– developing standards for people with Physical
hypofunction
– developing standard for indigent people
– developing standards for all people.
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Thank you
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