Mikael Snaprud Brussels 2006-12-18

EIAO project is co-founded by the European Commission under the IST contract 2003-004526-STREP

European Internet Accessibility Observatory

EIAO Deployment & collecting public Web Site URLs

www.eiao.net

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EIAO partners

Type Name CountryUNIV Agder University College (Co-ordinating partner) NorwayUNIV Aalborg University DenmarkUNIV Technical University of Warsaw PolandUNIV University of Tromso, (until December 2005) NorwayUNIV Manchester Metropolitan University UKSME Intermedium AS (until December 2006) NorwaySME FBL ItalySME Vista Utredning AS NorwaySME FTB of Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein GermanySME Nettkroken AS NorwayREF Gnome foundation USAREF Directorate for health and social affairs NorwayREF European Disability Forum EuropeREF Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority NorwayREF Norge.no NorwayCLU Cluster with projects BenToWeb and Support EAM Europe

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Outline

● Introduction and Current status

● Current User Interface

● Main challenges including URL collection

● Exploitation

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Access with

Similar needs

Foto: Sosial og Helsedirektoratet/ Einar Aslaksen

Required to participatein Information society

WCAG Guidelines from W3C internationally agreed

Accessibility Benchmarking a toolto create awareness and take action

First barrier – bus departure

Acccess to online content

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Observatory main components

InternetRobot

Data- varehus

RapporterStatus

Endring

InternetCrawler

Web Accessibility

Metrics

Data Warehouse

List of public

Web sites

Reports onStatus &Changes

● First public release of 10.000 sites planned for April 2007 ● Based on Open Source and Open Standards, WCAG/W3C

Software forbenchmarking

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EIAO status● Speed improved (factor 200 since May) :

estimated capacity for 10.000 sites in 11 days➔ 22 tests from UWEM0.5 + Imergo Web servce interface

● January 2007 beta release and user tests➔ 32 UWEM 1.0 tests, covering 19 WCAG 1.0 checkpoints➔ BenToWeb to provide three tests ➔ GUI for beta test➔ Some meta data such as pdf (mime type), language etc.

● April 2007 public release:➔ 10.000 sites➔ GUI and UWEM 1.0 tests quality assured

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Outline

● Introduction and Current status

● Current User Interface

● Main challenges including URL collection

● Exploitation

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Outline

● Introduction and Current status

● Current User Interface

● Main challenges including URL collection

● Exploitation

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Main challenges ahead● Verification of all implemented tests

● Verification of sampling and aggregation

● Finalize EIAO User interface http://eiao2.eiao.net:8080/eiaogui2-alpha

● Continuous collection and maintenance of URLs with automatic categorisation

● Create sustainable organisation for Observatory

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Collection of URLs● Several strategies are pursued

➔ DMOZ.org➔ National directories➔ Other existing directories➔ Lists used in other surveys➔ Crawl online directories➔ Combine existing lists

● So far best result for EIAO purpose from national directories in some countries

● DMOZ.org promising for wider community effort➔ NUTS and NACE categorisation remains

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URL collection statusCountry Contact person URL

Austria BMF 52Belgium 144Cyprus 32Czech Republic 111Denmark Karen Monies 101 340 national, 300 localEstonia 73

Finland 85 280 nationalFrance Braille Net Dominique Burger Not available 69Germany Germany Federal level 114Greece 92Hungary 58Iceland 49Ireland 125Italy 72Latvia 50

15Lithuania 45Luxembourg 16Malta 45Norway 89 4096 national and localPoland Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration 81Portugal 19Slovakia 45Slovenia 26Spain 28

Sweden 129 1053 national and localSwitzerland 65The Netherlands 119UK Cabinet Office 1569Sum 3518 6069

OrganisationNo of URLs DMOZ.org

No of URLS national source

Josef Malkolm bmf.gv.atDirectory.fgov.be/home/top/category_id/f92efe474f56fdaf92f79327fd7970ee

Best på nettet itst.dk

Finland.fiPirkko Romakkaniemi Suomi.fi

Bund.de

http://eng.samgonguraduneyti.is/

Italia.gov.it ...

Liechtenstin

Norge.no Knut Moen Norge.noAnna Bramska mswia.gov.pl

Sweden.se Clas Thoren Sverige.se

Eric Velleman www.overheid.nl/Direct.gov.uk

Sufficient amount to illustrate spectrum and outline solutions

Further collection inkluded in GUI survey (Jan 07)

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Outline

● Introduction and Current status

● Current User Interface

● Main challenges including URL collection

● Exploitation

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EIAO exploitation

● T4P 2007, Technology for Participation conference➔ 25. June 2007, Kristiansand, Norway➔ Workshop to eGovernment accessibility interest group

● Follow-up projects:➔ T4P – eLearning Master specialisation : partly funded➔ eGIR – eGovernment Indicator Research : pilot funded➔ OPLEARN – Open Platform for Creating and Sharing

Learning Materials : pilot funded

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EIAO continuation

● Update frequency● Service coverage ● Redundant fields● Language versions● etc

●Survey and test with policy makers

●T4P woroshop