ウェブアクセシビリティ・ガイドライン
Web Accessibility Guidelines: Approach, Resources, Harmonization
Judy Brewer
An International Movement Towards Information Accessibility
What Kind of Disabilities?
- Different kinds of disabilities can affect information accessibility
- visual
- auditory
- physical
- speech
- neurological
- cognitive
What Kinds of Barriers?
- Examples of barriers to information technology accessibility
- no text for images or video
- no captions for audio
- not enough color contrast
- things that blink or flash or scroll
- Web sites where the navigation is different on every page
- browsers or media players that don't work with assistive technology
- authoring tools that can only be used with a mouse
W3C and WAI
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- develops standards for the Web
- promotes evolution, interoperability, universality of the Web
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- multi-stakeholder consensus forum
- addresses cross-disability accessibility needs on the Web
- supported by industry, government, disability organizations
Guidelines and Technical Solutions
Ingredients for an Accessible Web
- Goals and timelines
- Awareness
- Policy
- Training
- Software
- Evaluation
- Consequences
Adopting Web Accessibility in Policies
Benefits of Standards Harmonization
Current Status of Standards
Harmonization
- Many countries use different guidelines
- Hard for international organizations
- Less sharing of training and evaluation resources
Thank you!
- Questions?
- Please stay in touch!
- This presentation: http://www.w3.org/2008/Talks/0425-jb-daisy/
