ISO/IEC JTC 1 Special Working Group on Accessibility (SWG-A)

JTC 1 SWG-A N 010

2005-05-16

JTC 1 SWG on Accessibility Secretariat
ITI/INCITS
1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005
jgarner@itic.org

Richard Hodgkinson and I met recently to review the Terms of Reference and to consider ways to start moving forward; this document contains the ToR with our initial thoughts – most of them are questions.

Role

To implement the gathering and publication of an inventory of all known accessibility standards efforts and to identify areas/technologies where standards are not being addressed.

Terms of Reference

• The task group will seek input directly from user organizations as well as end users, government agencies, standards development organizations, industry, academic institutions, consortia/fora, and others to develop the inventory of accessibility standards efforts.
• “User organisations”
• Who are they? (is there a list?)
• “End users”
• … of the product or of the standards? It would be extremely difficult to reach the users of the products and they probably wouldn't have a view on standards, this is the role of their user organisations, so this must refer to the users of the standards.
• Who are the users of the standards? Manufacturers (includes manufacturers of hardware, Assistive technology, software, web authors), legislators, NGOs.
• Manufacturers: presumably we can reach them via trade associations – which ones?
• Legislators: who? how?
• NGOs: presumably via the “user organisations”, as above
• “government agencies”
• Who? US Access board, UK DRC, UK CO, European Commission, many others (need to build list)
• How?
• “standards development organizations”
• Who? ETSI, CEN, CENELEC, CEN/ISSS, ITU-T, ISO, IEC, ANSI, JIS, many others (need to build list)
• How?
• “industry”
• How? via trade associations and SWGA members
• “academic institutions”
• presumably this is for the gap analysis
• which institutions are active in accessibility – need a list (academics in SWGA will know)
• “consortia/fora”
• W3C, who else?
• The task group will develop a detailed inventory and gap analysis of accessibility standards efforts taking into consideration the following: management of the inventory and gap analysis, measurable outcome (including metrics as to when the Accessibility Standards Inventory is mature enough to be used in the gap analysis) how the information gathered will be structured and coded and where the inventory and gap analysis will be stored, mapping of the domain, plan for resources to support the ongoing activity, synchronize timeline of activity with the Task Group on User Requirements
• Inventory management
• placed on JTC1 website as a “work in progress” by the editor (access needed)
• the TG will approve monthly updates during the development of the inventory, the editor will publish these to the website
• when the initial work of the TG is complete there will be a need for on-going maintenance. It is proposed that a maintenance committee is formed to provide quarterly updates to the inventory.
• Gap analysis
• placed on JTC1 website as a “work in progress” by the editor (access needed)
• the TG will approve monthly updates during the development of the analysis, the editor will publish these to the website
• when the initial work of the TG is complete there will be a need for on-going maintenance. It is proposed that a maintenance committee is formed to provide quarterly updates to the analysis.
• Measurable outcome (including metrics as to when the Accessibility Standards Inventory is mature enough to be used in the gap analysis)
• suggestions needed
• Inventory structure - an alphanumeric listing in an accessible format, containing:
• number
• owning agency and working group
• Title
• Status
• Type (standard, guideline)
• Key dates
• Scope distillation
• Coded content
• we need to develop a coding scheme to be able to compare standards and look for gaps and overlaps, does anything exist? – ideas needed!
• any coding scheme will need to be tested before use to avoid wasted effort but will necessarily be iterative
• Mapping of the domain
• Global,
• ICT sector (hardware, software, services),
• national, regional and international standards
• Technical reports and guidelines
• NGO schemes
• Resources
• JTC1 Website space
• editorial access to website
• funding for editorship
• JTC1 secretariat support for document control, archiving and numbering
• email reflector for TG members
• establishment of a newsgroup would be useful for discussion
• commitment to ongoing maintenance

Initial input

• Document JTC 1 N 7736 ((Starting point for an) Inventory of International, National, and Regional Standards and Known Works in Progress related ICT and People with Disabilities - Version 2.4)
• JTC 1 N 7702 - Liaison Statement from ITU-T SG 16
• JTC 1 N 7730 - US Submission: Standards Inventory
• JTC 1 N 7741 - Contribution from ETSI on ETSI SR 001 996 V2.1.1 (2003-10), Human Factors (H-F): An Annotated Bibliography of Documents Dealing with Human Factors and Disability
• JTC 1 N 7743 - Contribution from W3C on W3C/WAI Web Accessibility Guidelines
• JTC 1 N 7751 - Contribution from JTC 1/SC 7/WG 2 on Current IT Accessibility Standards Activities
• JTC 1 N 7758 - SC 35 Contribution on SC 35 Activities
• JTC 1 N 7760 - JTC 1/ SC 37 Contribution
• JTC 1 N 7761 - EUAIN Contribution
• JTC 1 N 7762 - Canadian Position Statement
• JTC 1 N 7763 - Accessibility in ISO/TC 159 - Survey over the actual projects in ISO/TC 159
• JTC 1 N 7769 - Japanese Contribution
• SWG-A N 001 - JTC 1/SC 36 Contribution
• SWG-A N 002 - CEN/TC 224/WG 6 Contribution
• JTC 1 N 7731 - US Submission: Gap Identification
• JTC 1 N 7737 - US Contribution: Gap Analytic Model for Global Accessibility

People

Convenor: Mr. Dave Sawdon: dave_sawdon@uk.ibm.com

Inventory editor: Mr. Richard Hodgkinson (richard_hodgkinson@btinternet.com)

Gap analysis editor: Ms. Josée Auber (josee.auber@hp.com)

The following National Bodies and organizations expressed their intent to participate on this task group: Australia, France, Japan, US, UK, ITI, JTC 1/SC 35, JTC 1/SC 37, and W3C/WAI. A call for participation will be issued following the Sheffield meeting.

Schedule

The first task group meeting will be held the week of 18 July 2005 and will be contiguous with the meeting of the Task Group on User Requirements.