[ALAC] Fwd: ALAC and accessibility for people with disability

[Carlton Samuels]

The simple response is to ask staff to verify if the W3C web accessibility
guidelines were adopted for the website.  And if not, why not?

Failing, I would ask if any assistive technologies were contemplated at
all? And if not, what are the plans for remediation.

- Carlton

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>wrote:

>
> For your information, please be so kind to find an email sent by one of
> our members in Australia regarding accessibility, including
> accessibility of the new myICANN.org Web site.
> I believe there is a deeper implication to make ICANN as well as its
> bottom-up policy processes and its communication strategy more
> accessible to everyone. Comments welcome!
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        ALAC and accessibility for people with disability
> Date:   Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:12:59 +1100
> From:   Gunela Astbrink <g.astbrink@*.au>
> To:     ocl at gih.com
> CC:     Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr@*.com>, Save Vocea <save.vocea@
> *.org>
>
>
>
> Dear Olivier,
>
> Unfortunately, I won't be at the Toronto ICANN meeting.
>
> I remember we have had discussions about accessibility for people with
> disability in the past.
>
> The new myICANN website has prompted me to contact you.
>
> The ICANN websites have accessibility errors including the brand new
> myICANN. That looks like a great site and is intended for the general
> public. Thus, people with disability who comprise one billion people in
> the world should have adequate access.
>
> I was invited to participate in the consultation for a new At-Large
> website and hope that it will incorporate accessibility based on the Web
> Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) right from the
> start. http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php
>
> I am very concerned that accessibility should be considered in new
> policy or process.
>
> ISOC are about to launch a policy paper on Internet accessibility for
> people with disability (drafted by me).
>
> I'd like to see ICANN also taking this issue on in a systematic way. For
> example, mechanisms could be considered on how to encourage new gTLDs to
> consider accessibility.
>
> Happy to discuss further.
>
> Regards,
> Gunela
>
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>
>
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