Description
This WG will work on the issues surrounding the particular needs of populations who face challenges to:
- participate in the policy development work of ICANN, and
- gain access to the Internet and participate in the Internet community.
These populations include:
- people with disability
- indigenous, aboriginal or 'first nation' populations, and
- other vulnerable populations (a diverse category, including groups such as refugees, trafficked and exploited people, crime victims, etc., etc.)
Accessibility Tools
LOS ANGELES 2014 WORK
SINGAPORE 2015 WORK
BUENOS AIRES 2015 WORK
Contact
Staff Support Lead: Ariel Liang
Mail list: accessibility-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org
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Members
The members of At-Large Ad-Hoc ICANN Accessibility WG, organized by regional affiliation, are:
Region | Member | Office |
| AFRALO | Hawa Diakite | |
| APRALO | Peter Lovelock | |
| APRALO | Yudho Giri Sucahyo | |
APRALO - Disabled People’s Association of Singapore | Marissa Medjeral | |
APRALO - DPA Singapore | Alvan Yap | |
| APRALO | Shakeel Ahmed | |
| APRALO | Gunela Astbrink | |
| APRALO | Cheryl Langdon-Orr | Chair |
| APRALO | Rafid A. Fatani | |
| APRALO | Siranush Vardanyan | |
| EURALO | Yuliya Morenets | |
| EURALO | Jordi Iparraguirre | |
| LACRALO | León Felipe Sánchez Ambía | |
| LACRALO | Sylvia Herlein Leite | |
| NARALO | Garth Bruen | |
| NARALO | Joly MacFie | |
| NARALO | Judith Hellerstein | |
SSAC | Robert Guerra | |
| GAC, Hungary - Global/Invited Expert | Peter Major | Advisor |
| GAC, Portugal | Ana Neves | |
| GAC, Republic of Paraguay | Nicolas Caballero | |
| GNSO - IPC | Heather Forrest | |
| GNSO - NomCom appointee | Thomas Rickert | |
| ICANN - Development and Public Responsibility Programs | Christina Guirguis |
Meetings and Events
Next Meeting: 25 February 2016 at 21:00 UTC
The Last call was on: 20 October 2015 at 09:45 IST - Dublin (listed as ICANN Cross-Community Committee on Accessibility)
Previous Calls:
20 October 2015 at 09:45 IST - Dublin (listed as ICANN Cross-Community Committee on Accessibility)
16 September 2015 at 18:00 UTC
Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 17:30 ART - Buenos Air
Wednesday 8 April 2015 at 1800 UTC
10 February 2015 - F2F Meeting in Singapore, specifically focusing on matters affecting the implementation of Rec 11
26 January 2015 - captioning focused meeting.
Tuesday 14 October 2014 - At-Large Accessibility Working Group - Los Angeles LOS ANGELES 2014 WORK
8th September 2014 (joint meeting with the At-Large Technology Taskforce: AC Caption testing)
20 August 2014 - WG
Reports
Documents
Resources
ICANN's RFP for web accessibility assessment of ICANN websites - See RFP
Internet Accessibility - ISOC 2012 paper
Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability- Reports
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/accessibility/dcad/Pages/default.aspx
Digital Access at Vision Australia newsletter -January 2014 issue.
Why web accessibility makes business sense - Domain Pulse
Video
Here is a ACHECKER assessment of the www.icann.org website . Notice the errors for compliance
6 Comments
Gunela Astbrink
We should consider changing the description to "people with disability" rather than "people with physical disabilities". Otherwise some might think that we haven't included people with vision or hearing impairment if we say physical disability even though I do understand why that term was used.
Cheryl Langdon-Orr
Yes I did wonder about that... As you suggest we should indeed change...
Glenn McKnight
I'm glad we are having a pre-Singapore call this week so we can discuss our agenda in advance and manage expectations.
My one observation is how the working group has broaden it's mandate beyond the disabled community to broach the broader issue of accessibility to other marginalized groups.
Glenn
Gunela Astbrink
Yes, I think that the broadness of working group will need to be an item on the agenda. Questions for discussion may be:
How do we handle this?
Do we have sub-teams?
What are the points in common?
Are they sufficient for the one group?
Gunela Astbrink
I've added an article in Domain Pulse about web accessibility. This was written by AusRegistry in Australia and I was asked to provide ten top web accessibility tips. It's always difficult to prioritise but I tried to cover tips to meet the needs of people with vision or hearing impairment, reading difficulties and physical disability.
Silvia Vivanco
Comment posted on behalf of Joe Catapano
Nice to have a fresh look at these matrices after a few weeks time. I think we did some very good brainstorming here. At second glance, I thought worthwhile to add the following comments:
• I think the “Survey, Feedback, Discussion” portion of under “Tangible/Tactics” in the SMART table is key. Having a good set of data points from the DNS industry as to what solutions they might be looking for in this area can really help inform and guide the discussions of the group and maximize outputs.
• On the SWOT analysis, I think the “(Policy Development) in ICANN” can be a Strength as well as an Opportunity. The bringing together of multiple views is baked into the ICANN processes and having this diversity of ideas in on the ground floor can be a major positive.
• “Stock take Domain Name Industry” seems more like an Opportunity than a Weakness in retrospect.
I couldn’t seem to put direct comments into the table or wiki, hence my taking it to the mailing list here.