2. What is a Standard?
• De-facto standards:
– Width of a road
• Decreed standards:
– Imperial measure: inch, foot, yard
• Standards from a standards process:
– Metric measure: meter, liter, gram
3. What is a Standards Body?
• Entity whose primary activities are
developing, coordinating, promulgating,
revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting,
or otherwise maintaining one or more
standards
4. Role of Standards in ICT Generally
• For software interoperability
– Networking standards allow different
computers, platforms, to communicate
• For sharing of information
– Document standards allow different
applications to read & write the same files
• For anything heterogeneous
5. Role of Standards in ICT Accessibility
(Role of Accessibility in ICT Standards)
• For accessibility interoperability:
– How does AT work with ICT (and vice-versa)?
– How do apps follow platform themes?
• For needed accessibility information
– How to encode text for images in documents?
– How to encode tables for AT use?
6. Importance of Open Standards
• Open standards can be read, implemented
by anyone, at any time, on any platform
• Open standards bodies provide ways for
experts to join, contribute
– Enables ongoing improvement to standards
– Therefore enables accessibility improvements
7. Developing ICT Accessibility Standards
• Ingredients for success
– Deep understanding of accessibility needs
– Plethora of real-world experience
– Active implementation(s) proving proposals
• Applies to all accessibility standards
– Dedicated accessibility standards
– Standards supporting accessibility
9. Accessibility Standards & ÆGIS
• “Definition of Accessibility” commonly
done as a standard
• ÆGIS will do some combination of:
– Define accessibility standards
– Implement accessibility standards
– Identify gaps in accessibility standards
• Contribute improvements addressing those gaps
10. Successful Accessibility Standards
• Don't exist in a vacuum
– Tools to help create, validate implementations
• Multiple (and interoperable)
implementations
– May have a “reference implementation”
– May have open source implementation(s)
• Not necessarily best, but often “definitive”
11. Valorisation of Accessibility
• What is “valorisation”?
– Realization of value
• In the context of ÆGIS and this session
– Realizing the value of accessibility standards
– Accessibility solutions realized from research
12. Remainder of this Parallel Session
• Accessibility standards work
– Dr. Galinski: accessibility standards in content
– Dr. Martinez: assessing accessibility
conformance to the ISO 9241-171 standard
– Mr. Strobbe: Accessibility standards research
– Dr. Bund: pluggable accessible user
interfaces
13. Remainder of this Parallel Session, cont.
• Accessibility valorisation
– Dr. Usero: open source & cloud accessibility
– Mr. Lundälv: language support for authors
– Mr. Kalogirou: mobile device accessibility
