[technology taskforce] Web Accessibility Victory

Mon Oct 14 13:00:34 UTC 2019

FYI – Howard

From: TSB JCA-AHF Secretariat, ITU <tsbjcaahf at itu.int> 
Sent: 14 October 2019 08:45
To: jca-ahf at lists.itu.int
Cc: Euchner, Martin <martin.euchner at itu.int>
Subject: [JCA-AHF] Announcement of webinar on e-accessibility for e-business, 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:30 hours CEST

Dear accessibility experts, 

Please be invited to the webinar on e-accessibility for e-business below. The participation in the webinar is open to all and free of charge. 

Contact: Martin.Euchner at itu.int  or kaoru.mizuno at itu.int .

The  <https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ebusiness> Memorandum of Understanding on electronic business (MoU) between IEC, ISO, ITU, and UN/ECE, and its Management Group (MG), is a coordination mechanism under a unique cooperative model to collaborate on mutually supportive standards required in business transactions (data interchange and interoperability) as well as products design and manufacturing to meet the urgent needs of both the industry and the end-users.

The MoU/MG is pleased to announce a

Webinar on e-accessibility for e-business <https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ebusiness/Pages/mou/webinar-on-e-accessibility-for-e-business.aspx?PagePreview=true> 

Date: 21 October 2019

Time: 13:00-14:30 hours (Geneva local time, CEST) (event time announcer <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Webinar+on+e-accessibility+for+e-business&iso=20191021T13&p1=87&ah=1&am=30> ) 

Remote participation platform: https://connect.itu.int/itu-t-conf1/ 

Separate Real-Time Captioning window: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MOUMG 

Program and presentations: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ebusiness/Pages/mou/webinar-on-e-accessibility-for-e-business.aspx

e-Accessibility (i.e. accessibility in the context of ICTs, web and Internet) aims to enable access to electronic products and services for all people, including specifically persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs. Providing accessibility by design will allow inclusion with consequent impact on better equality and income distribution, as well as economic opportunities in the digital space to companies globally.

With the uptake of global, regional and national legislative regulations on accessibility, enterprises offering ICT products and services are facing the need to properly address e-accessibility in their offerings and to suitably address customers with disabilities and persons with specific needs.

Several International standards exist already which address e-accessibility by providing technical solutions.

This webinar is offered to provide a better understanding of the requirements including key regulations on e-accessibility. The webinar will investigate the activities, results and plans of international standards setting organizations and shed insights into their e-accessibility standards as relevant in the context of e-business.

In particular, the webinar will address and focus specifically on the following topics/themes from a standardization perspective:

*	legal framework (e.g., EU) on e-accessibility,
*	e-procurement and public e-procurement;
*	accessible user interfaces and accessible content,
*	e-accessibility in the context of broadcasting,
*	certification for e-accessibility and systems,
*	aspects of users on usability for e-accessibility.

The target audience of the webinar should be standard managers, technical project managers (TPMs), and interested experts among the membership of the involved organizations.

From: ttf [mailto:ttf-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Jahangir Hossain
Sent: 09 October 2019 05:36
To: Glenn McKnight; Technology Taskforce WG; Judith Hellerstein
Subject: Re: [technology taskforce] Web Accessibility Victory

Dear All,

Thanks for sharing this information .

Regards, Jahangir

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 9:44 PM Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:

Here is the  Ebook version of the Egovernment  survey

http://online.fliphtml5.com/gnel/lmvk/

Glenn McKnight

NARALO Secretariat until Nov 2, 2019

ICANN NOMCOM 2019-2021
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On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 1:12 AM Raymond Mamattah <mamattah.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:

That’s a good Judith,

I have been a volunteer for the UN e-governance survey and accessibility of websites by the disabled was one of the things looked out for.  Past results of the survey can be found in this url:

https://publicadministration.un.org/egovkb/en-us/Reports/UN-E-Government-Survey-2018

From this I’m sure disabled accessibility is a requirement, hence this is a good ruling.

Regards

Raymond Mamattah 

Accra-Ghana

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 1:51 AM, Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Just saw this on Facebook. The US Supreme Court refused to opine on a ruling 
letting the past ruling by the lower courts stand. That ruling found against 
Dominoes because its website was not accessible. This law now allows blind 
people to sue retailers if their websites are not accessible, 
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled

  The law says that the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access not just 
to restaurants and stores but also to the websites and apps of those businesses. 
This is a big win for accessibility.

Judith

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