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Accessibility standards for ICT’s

E-accessibility workshop For Persons with E-accessibility workshop For Persons with

Disabilities

Haji Mohammed

Manager New Technologies

Communications Commission of Kenya

[email protected]

Laico Regency Hotel

10 – 11, May 2012

WHY ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS?

It is MANDATORY

• Articles 3 and 9 of the Convention on • Articles 3 and 9 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:– Article 3 – accessibility


–Article 9, 2(a) - To develop, promulgate and monitor the implementation of minimum standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and for the accessibility of facilities and services open or provided to the public


• Constitution of Kenya, 2010

• KICA, Cap 411A

• Other Kenyan laws

• CCK’s vision – access for all in Kenya• CCK’s vision – access for all in Kenya

• Ensure affordability, accessibility,

compatibility, portability, availability and inclusiveness

Accessibility Initiatives - ITU

•Study Group 16 - Lead study group on telecommunication/ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities

• Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility • Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors - JCA-AHF (http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/jca/ahf)

•ITU-T study groups 12 ad 13 work on accessibility


•ITU-T Study Group 2 work on human factors

Question 4/2 - Human factors related issues for improvement of the quality of life through international telecommunicationsinternational telecommunications

•ITU-D SG 1 Question 20/1 "Access to telecommunication services for people with disabilities"

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•ITU-R – wireless technologies enhance accessibility to people with disabilities and avoid their exclusion.

•ITU-R DTTB Handbook - Digital terrestrial television broadcasting in the VHF/UHF bands –cover captioning and closed captioningcover captioning and closed captioning

•Recommendation ITU-R M.1076 - Wireless communication systems for persons with impaired hearing

•Recommendation ITU-R M.1076 - Wireless communication systems for persons with impaired hearing

OTHER ACCESSIBILITY INITIATIVES

• Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD) - facilitates interaction and ensures that ICT accessibility is included in the

key debates around Internet Governance

• ISO/IEC JTC1 Special Working Group on • ISO/IEC JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility (SWG-A)

–http://www.jtc1access.org/

• G3ict - the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs

–http://www.g3ict.com/

ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS/1

ITU Standards on Accessibility

• V.18 Harmonization of text telephony

• V.151 Procedures for the end-to-end connection of analogue PSTN text telephones over an IP network utilizing text relay


• V.254 Asynchronous serial command interface for assistive and multi-functional communication devices

• T.140 the general presentation protocol • T.140 the general presentation protocol for text conversation

• T.134 text conversation in the T.120 data conferencing environment


ITU Standards on Accessibility (cont’d)

• H.323 Annex G for text conversation in H.323 packet multimedia environmentH.323 packet multimedia environment

• H.248.2 gateway procedures between Text Telephony in PSTN and real-time text in IP and other networks


• H Series Supplement 1 Requirements on video communication for sign language and lip reading

• F.790 Telecommunications accessibility guidelines for older persons and persons with disabilities


ITU Standards on Accessibility (cont’d)

• F.703 Multimedia conversational services

– A Total Conversation service is an audiovisual

conversation service providing bidirectional

symmetric real-time transfer of motion video, text

and voice between users in two or more locations.


ITU Standards that integrate accessibility:

• Sections on accessibility were included in NGN R1 Scope Y.2000SerSup1

• Definition in F.703 of Total Conversation and Text Telephony services, offering real-time Text Telephony services, offering real-time text, video and audio communication

• Definition of the real-time conversational text medium in F.700


• Inclusion in H.320 of real-time text conversation in ISDN multimedia

• Section on transport of real-time text in ISDN multimedia environments in H.224

Sections on modem negotiation for text • Sections on modem negotiation for text telephony in V.8

• Sections in V.8 bis on modem negotiation for text telephony

• Sections in V.250 on control of V.18 modems



• Inclusion in H.324 of real time text conversation in circuit switched multimedia

• Section in H.245 for handling real-time text connections in H.324 and H.323 multimedia connections in H.324 and H.323 multimedia environments

• Inclusion in T.120 of real-time text in data conferencing

• Section in T.124 for handling real-time text sessions in the T.120 environment



• Section in G.168 for testing of echo cancellation in calls with text telephonycancellation in calls with text telephony

• Section in F.724 for accessible media additions in service description and requirements for video telephony services over IP networks

ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS/10• Section in F.733 for accessible media additions in

multimedia conference services over IP

• Section in F.742 for accessible media additions in service description and requirements for distance learning services

• Section in F.741 for accessible media additions in • Section in F.741 for accessible media additions in service description and requirements for audiovisual on demand services

• Inclusion in V.152 of text telephony considerations in voice band data gateway procedures

ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS IN

EMERGINGTECHNOLOGIES

• Emerging technologies take into consideration accessibility from the beginning. They include accessibility requirements especially total conversion.

• Examples: of emerging technologies: – IPTV

– NGN

– Home Networking

USEFUL ITU TOOLKITS

• Telecommunication Accessibility Checklist

– http://www.itu.int/pub/T-TUT-FSTP-2006-TACL/en

• Telecommunication Accessibility Guidelines• Telecommunication Accessibility Guidelines

– http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com16/accessibility/guidelines.html

IMPROVING PARTICIPATION IN

STANDARD DEVELOPMENT

PROCESSES• Include PWDs in the standards

development process – ITU Accessibility work:

• Raise awareness among disability• Raise awareness among disabilityorganizations and standards bodies, about which are the relevant standards, what categories, and who are the people involved

IMPROVING PARTICIPATION IN

STANDARD DEVELOPMENT

PROCESSES• Introduce standards into the education

system, in particular train PWDs

• Funding: Raise resources, both human and financial and financial

ITU GUIDINGTEXTS ON

ACCESSIBILITY• PP -10 Resolution 175 (Plenipotentiary 2010, Guadalajara,

Mexico)WTDC -10 Resolution 58 (Access to information and communication technology for persons with disabilities, including persons with age-related disabilities)

• WTSA -10 Resolution 70 (Regional initiative for Central • WTSA -10 Resolution 70 (Regional initiative for Central and Eastern Europe on "E-accessibility (Internet and digital television) for persons with disabilities")

• WTSA -08 Resolution 70 - Telecommunication/information and communication technology accessibility for persons with disabilities”: the ITU-T milestone for Accessibility.

– See the action plan for the implementation.

• e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities

CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Accessibility standards are available, lots

of work still ongoing to improve them

• Implementation and enforcement of such

standards is weak – need to improvestandards is weak – need to improve

• PWDs have the opportunity to take part

in ICT standards development process –

consult CCK and KEBS

CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Internship programmes can enhance participation and inclusion

• Special accessibility requirements can be included in standards making process (ITU) – directly or through CCK(ITU) – directly or through CCK

• Accessibility standards ecosystem requires involvement of all stakeholders

• Standards are available online for free at ITU website: www.itu.int

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