[Irl-dean] Accessibility in the future

[Dónal Rice]

Interesting discussion, folks.

By way of a endnote to this conversation on globalisation of accessibility,
here  is a link to the of proceedings of the UN G3ICT conference "Joint
ITU-T & G3ict Forum 2008 "The Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for ICT Standards" <
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/accessibility/200804/programme.html>
The conference proceedings included the announcement of a toolikt for policy
makers on "e-Accessibility and service needs for people with disabilities".
The aim of this toolkit is to "support policy makers evolve and mainstream
policies and strategies addressing ICT accessibility and service needs of
persons with disabilities. The toolkit, which complies to the dispositions
of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, will support
global standards and serve as a global electronic repository of policies and
strategies and as a platform for sharing experiences on best practices."

I have most of the presentations if anyone would like to contact me off-line
for a zipped set of copies (in PDF versions of the original powerpoint
presentation, unfortunately - albeit mostly text based slides).

Interestingly the proceedings were simultaneously transcribed using a Real
time Captioning service, with stenographers based in the US using a live
audio feed to pipe back simultaneous transcriptions of what was being said
at the conference. The quality of the stenography seems to be very high as
you can see for yourself from the transcript which was later posted to the
conference website: <http://www.itu.int/oth/T0612006001/en>

By the way, Kevin Carey also spoke at this event so you can check out what
he said on this occasion by reading the transcript.
Regards,
Dónal.


2008/5/27 Mark Magennis <Mark.magennis at ncbi.ie>:

> Like Barry, the claims about the costs of accessibility don't sit well
> with me.
>
> On the one hand, the author says:
>
> > the greater the quantity of information, the lower its cost of
> > production; and ... the greater is the additional percentage cost of
> > making it accessible.
>
> then later he says:
>
> > the smaller the player, the higher the relative percentage cost of
> > accessibility services will become.
>
> so he appears to be saying that big operators will face higher
> relative costs because they produce a lot of information and smaller
> operators will face higher relative costs because they are small and
> don't do much. This seems to be contradictory unless I've
> misunderstood something.
>
> Also, I'm not sure that it will remain more difficult for smaller
> players to achieve accessibility. Take the situation with websites.
> The vast majority of websites are commissioned by SMEs and built by
> small operators using standard tools and techniques. If these standard
> tools and techniques can be accessified then everything that results
> from them will be accessible. That's a big if, but the promotion of
> Universal Design awareness and skills as well as the adherence of
> authoring tools to accessibility guidelines would go a long way in
> this respect.
>
> Mark
>
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Dónal Rice
Senior ICT Advisor
Centre for Excellence in Universal Design
National Disability Authority
email: drice at nda.ie, drice.nda at gmail.com
Tel: + 353 (0)1 608 0430
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