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20th International World Wide Web Conference:
W3C-WAI, G3ict and CIS Co-hosted Panel Session on "Web Sites Accessibility Evaluation Methodologies"
Background:
While web accessibility principles and guidelines have already become well known and been adopted by many countries, measuring the accessibility of web sites for users living with different types of disabilities remains a complex endeavor subject to a number of possible methodological challenges. Yet, with web accessibility policies and programs increasingly implemented around the world as a result of the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (98 countries representing over 75% of the world population), policy makers, organizations of persons with disabilities, web site owners and courts when legal action is taken will inevitably need to rely on well-defined evaluation methodologies and benchmarks.
The panel will take place during the first day of the W3C Track with focus on web accessibility and discuss current accessibility evaluation methodologies and their challenges, policy makers requirements, current plans of the W3C-WAI, and practical technical survey methodologies alternatives.
Panelists will include: Glenda Sims (Deque Systems), Shadi Abou Zahra (W3C-WAI), Neeta Verma (National Informatics Centre, Government of India), Nirmita Narasimhan (Center for Internet and Society), and Srinivasu Chakravarthula (Yahoo! India).
Co-organizers: W3C-WAI, G3ict, CIS
Duration: 90 minutes
Moderator: Nirmita Narasimhan, Program Manager, CIS and Editor, G3ict – ITU Policy Toolkit Handbook
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