Accessibility standards: a look in the kitchen HIDDE DE VRIES - UCC CAFE, ONLINE - MARCH 2025
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“The power of the web i T –
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Accessibility: ensure that services work for people with disabilities
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Accessibility: ensure that services work for people with disabilities – auditory – physical – visual – cognitive – speech
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15-20% of your users (80 million in the EU) Source: eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/accessibility-of-products-and-services.html
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Disability is a spectrum
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UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2007 signed on behalf of the European Community 2011 entered into force in the European Union eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2010/48(1)
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UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2007 signed on behalf of the European Community 2011 entered into force in the European Union eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2010/48(1)
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“discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a v i – UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , Annex I, h.
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UNCRPD Web Accessibility Directive European Accessibility Act Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services
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UNCRPD Web Accessibility Directive European Accessibility Act Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services
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How to measure if a service is actually accessible?
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i Access
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C) Robust Operable Understandable Perceivable
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C) weekly telecon (<= 2hrs) async discussions on GitHub, mailing lists F2F meetings
100 active contributors
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EN 301 549 (E T
“Harmonised standard” Originally for procurement, now more widely used
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EN 301 549 (E T
requested by European Union voluntary, but useful, because “presumption of conformance”
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Consensus “To promote consensus, … Cha i – W3C process
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Different levels of review at each step (W3C) Work Cand Recommendat “standard” i i i (simplified)
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Work Re group, public, Cand Recommendat i i i (simplified) w W Different levels of review at each step (W3C)
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Horizontal review (W3C) Accessibility Architecture Internationalization Privacy Security
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Standards can take a wh Consensus based process Very extensive review i Dependencies
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How we use standards
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a government website’s WCAG report
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Accessibility standards provide fair measurement that regulation needs Standards take time due to consensus decision making and extensive review i T In conclus
