How anybody can and should enforce accesibility for people with disabilities.

1. Domingos de Oliveira
www.oliveira-online.net
domingos20000@googlemail.com
Grassroots Accessibility
How Anybody can improve
Accessibility for people with
disabilities – and why to do it

2. Overview
• Status Quo
• What to do
• And why
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3. Status Quo
• Accessibility mainly is enforced through
governmental rules (top-down).
• We need this rules in many areas, but they can
not fix all problems.
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4. Targets
• Accessibility bottum
up
• go to the people
• tell them about
accessibility
• and convince them
what they can do.
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5. Approaches
• Better Communication
• Crowdsourcing
• Crowdfunding
• Connecting with engaged people
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6. Better Communication
• People with disabilities share their
personal story about their difficulties.
• The reports should be personal,
multimedial and authentic, for example
they can use Storify, info graphics, Audio
or Video.
• Go into public, make live demonstrations
of assisting technology, show people, how
it works, let them try it.
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7. Crowdsourcing
• OpenStreetMap or
Wheelmap to fix
mobility problems.
• WebVisum to fix
A11Y-Problems on
Websites for the
Blinds.
• It´s an easy way to
show people how
A11Y works and what
they can do.
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8. OpenSource
• Using all day technology to help people
with disabilities: (MS Kinect, Google
Glass, Augmented Reality)
• Fixing problems in existing assiting
technlogy, fix my hearing aid.
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9. CrowdFunding
• Community financed
development of cheap
assisting technology
and software.
• In the end there are
cheaper and
customizable aids.
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10. Connecting
• Win engaged people
from other
communities for
A11Y.
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11. Summary
• Accessibility can not be achieved only by
top down rules.
• People with disabilities have to play a
bigger role in engagement for A11Y.
• We have to use modern public relations
tools to reach our goals: a more
accessible and open world for all of us.
We have to win the hearts, not only the
heads.
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12. Thank You!
Domingos de Oliveira
www.oliveira-online.net
domingos20000@googlemail.com