Presentation given by Jonathan Hassell (Acting Chair of IST/45 - drafting committee for BS8878) at European Accessibility Forum in Frankfurt 2009.
Covers: why we needed a British accessibility Standard (rather than a European one); aims of PAS-78; the reason for updating it into BS8878; the big issues BS8878 will cover
Strategy and research
researching users needs from technology
and how evolving technology directions will present challenges and opportunities to supporting those needs
standards
setting the right international standards
BS8878 => ISO...
embedding
training
consultancy
support tools
innovation
innovation through inclusion
inclusion solutions
finding the hard/costly barriers for inclusion
finding ways to create solutions for them
licensing those solutions at low cost to the widest number of websites