SWGA introduction

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ISO/IEC JTC 1 Special Working Group on
Accessibility (SWG-A) JTC 1 SWG-A N
140 2006-03-18 Document Type SWG-A
Meeting Document Title Task Group
2/Break Out 1 Report and Recommendations at the
March 2006 JTC 1/SWG-A
Meeting Source Task Group 2 , Break Out
1 Leader Requested For use at the March 2006
SWG-A meeting.Action JTC 1 SWG on
Accessibility SecretariatITI/INCITS1250 Eye
Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC
20005jgarner_at_itic.org
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Tasks for Break-out Group 1

• Update/comment on N119
• Provide strategy for motivating SDOs
• Spectrum of requests
• How to educate SDOs to do gap analysis
• Project Plan

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Strategy for motivating SDOs

• Provide short presentation
• Experience of Canadian Standards association in
  work on Design for Aging was this presentation
  format to a wide number of groups worked well and
  stimulated thought/awareness and response
• SWG-A members can take it to groups they are
  active in
• SWG-A general missionaries can take message to
  other groups
• do not need technical knowledge of the group
  presenting to in order to give them the concept
  of the work

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Recommendations - 1

• Set up AHG Outreach to coordinate presentations
• Finalise presentation (see below)
• Produce matrix of committees SWG members are
  involved with and to whom they can take
  presentation (and when) (would hope they can be
  persuasive about value of responding
  positively.)
• Find missionary volunteers to give presentation
  to groups where no SWG-A members involved
• Collate feedback when response re inventory(if
  any) likely, whether group will do gap analysis
  themselves
• Provide link to email support required for doing
  gap analysis

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Recommendations - 2

• Timescale needs review
• what are we committed to providing by October
• SWG may want to prioritise standards on which gap
  analysis performed after Oct 06
• AHG Outreach may want to prioritise the talking
  to SDOs to match these priorities ie present
  first to SDOs in priority domains

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Recommendations -3

• Set up Gap Analysis AHG
• to educate contributors on methodology
• to refine methodology after SDO feedback
• to collate data provided
• to review inputs to date, groups may consider
  already provided input
• to undertake the analysis or allocate task to
  SWG-A member with relevant expertise
• May want to have access to the text of the
  standard
• (to check consistency of analysis done by other
  groups, may need to provide more guidance, better
  definitions to get common understanding)
• Need access to text of identified clauses

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Issues identified

• IT or ICT, we think it is ICT we cover
• May want to have access to the text of the
  clauses highlighted in the gap analysis rather
  than the whole document (as a minimum)
• New version of 119 under development and group
  felt that preparing presentation more valuable
• Will need a Gap Analysis AHG (?role)
• Need to discuss SWG-A internal communications

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JTC-1 SWG-A

• Special Working Group on Accessibility
• Wide membership open to all Standards Development
  Organisations, consortia, consumer organisations
  and user representatives

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Introduction to the SWG-A

• Formed to track all global, regional and national
  standards related to ICT accessibility by
• gathering user requirements
• publishing an inventory of all known
  accessibility standards efforts
• identifying areas/technologies where
  accessibility issues are not being addressed
• providing wide dissemination of SWG materials to
  all interested parties

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Benefits of being involved

• Ensuring your standards reflect user needs
• Assisting in the development of public policy
• Ensuring your work is disseminated through the
  SWG to all the other groups involved
• Helping to avoid duplicate work and to identify
  collaborative opportunities
• Helping prioritise work to meet emerging needs

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What is your reward for working with us

• More outreach for your activities
• contact with wide variety of bodies (SWG
  membership)
• Better, wider understanding of the accessibility
  features in your standards
• Inclusion in the inventory of standards
• Participation in gap analysis
• Chance to use methodology (and refine it)

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Time schedule

• Gathering data for the inventory of accessibility
  standards efforts for Oct 06
• Preliminary GapAnalysis completed Oct 06 (to
  report to JTC1 plenary)
• Significant time to complete GA for all sectors
  (realistic time)
• Priorities SWG-A has identified are
• xxx

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Input to inventory

• One form per standard, can complete
  electronically, SWG-A will collate the data
• Information required
• judgement on areas of applicability
• applicable domains
• geographical applicability
• url for the standard
• links to/relationship with other standards
• status of the standard

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How to complete the Gap Analysis

• Ideally do it within your organisation, you are
  the experts
• Sample Gap Analysis provided to help (and email
  support available)
• Prioritise the assessment of the standards you
  have identified
• Complete the analysis for each, (although even
  partial analysis is helpful)
• Identifying commonality of approach across your
  standards would be helpful

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How to help with the Gap Analysis

• Send the standards/specifications to an SWG-A TG
  to do the gap analysis
• Indicate any priority if appropriate
• (eg the standard nearly finished or legislation
  about to be enacted)
• Check the SWG-As analysis, and comment as
  necessary
• Identifying commonality of approach across your
  standards would be helpful

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What sort of standards are the SWG-A interested
in?

• Anything in the IT sector
• Computer hardware, software, peripherals, point
  of sale terminals, ticket machines, banking
  machines, telephone keypads, access control,
  security devices,
• A general standard with a specific section on IT
  equipment is still relevant
• eg design for aging (Canada)

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Where to find other resources

• SWG-A web site
• http//www.jtc1access.org
• Web sites regional
• Web sites re terminology
• Task Group contacts

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Documents

• Highlight key documents and links to them

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General wrap up slide