Transcript A SUCCESS STORY

The contribution of European
Standardization to e-Accessibility
Luc Van den Berghe
CEN - European Committee for Standards
Some previous developments
 Commission Mandates M/273 and M/283 (1998 and 1999)
 M/273: "Standards for disabled and elderly peoples' access to
information and communication technologies (ICT) products
and services including "Design for All".
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http://www.ictsb.org/activities_Design.htm (delivered spring 2000)
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DATSCG
 M/283: "Standards that promote barrier-free design, enabling
the use of products by disabled and elderly people by
applying the principles of design for all, adaptable design and
assistive technology"
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ISO/IEC Guide 71 (also known as CEN/CENELEC Guide 6)
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CEN/BT Resolution on the Guide’s use in standards development
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Domains addressed in the M/273 report
 Communication devices
 Digital Broadcasting
 Way finding
 Personal Information Appliances
 Personal Computers
 Public Access Terminals
 Smart Cards
 Internet and e-commerce Services
 Smart Housing
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Need for co-ordination
 DATSCG, the Design for All and Assistive Technologies
Co-ordination Group
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Sub-group of the ICT Standards Board
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Co-ordination through information exchange
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Dialogue with the Commission
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CEN, CENELEC, ETSI but also EICTA, EDF, ANEC, AAATE, etc
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International Workshop on Accessibility Requirements for Public
Procurement in the ICT Domain (Brussels, Oct 2004)
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Workshop on Demonstrating Conformance with eAccessibility
Requirements in ICT Products and Services ( 27 March 2006,
Brussels)
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CEN product range (deliverables)
 Standards
 European Standard – EN
 Pre-Standards
 Technical Specification - TS
 European Pre-Standard – ENV
 Informative
 Technical Report - TR
 CEN Guide
 Workshop Agreement
 CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA)
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Characteristics of an EN
 Stand-Still
 Withdrawal of conflicting National Standards
 Publication as a national Standard
 Designed to support legislation (New Approach – next slide)
 Developed in a TC
 National representations
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New Approach – Basic principles
 Essential requirements
 desired outcome which must be achieved
WITHOUT specifying how it should be
achieved
 Reference to standards
 Standards organizations develop or approve
harmonized standards
 EN’s set out technical specifications to meet
directives essential requirements
 Conformity assessment policy
 Standards are voluntary
 Manufacturers do not have to follow EN
 IF they follow = presumption of conformity (CE
marking)
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New Approach – in which sectors?
 European Directives under the New Approach regime
organize some of the most important industrial sectors
 Over 16% of industry production in the European Union
countries relates to the New Approach
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Machinery
Lifts
Construction products
Low voltage equipment
Pressure equipment
Packaging and packaging waste
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Drafting European Standards (ENs)
Technical
Committee
Working
Group
Technical
Committee
National
Standards
Body
TIMEFRAME: 3 YEARS
circulation for
comments
Project
Proposal
Draft
Standard
weighted vote
national
implementation
European
Standard
USER
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Characteristics of the Technical Specification
 No Requirements for
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Stand-Still
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Withdrawal of conflicting National Standards
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Publication at the national level
 Not designed for support of legislation
 Nationally available
 Developed in a TC
 National representations
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Characteristics of a CWA
 No Requirements for
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Stand-Still
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Withdrawal of conflicting National Standards
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Publication at the national level
 Not precluded from use in support of legislation
 National availability is optional
 Developed in a Workshop
 Direct representation
 Consensus of the participating parties
 Fast process
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Drafting CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs)
Business
Plan
Kick-off
Meeting
Adoption of
CWA
CWA
TIMEFRAME: 6 – 12 MONTHS
Describing
– Scope
– Objectives
– Financing
– Schedule
Confirming
– Consensus of Published by
– Business Plan
Participants
CEN National
– Rules of the
– Working
Members
Workshop
preferably via
– Chairmanship
Internet
– Secretariat
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Workshops in the eAccessibility area
 CWA14661: 2003 Guidelines to Standardisers of ICT
products and services in the CEN ICT domain
 Workshop on Document Processing for Accessibility (DPA –
cfr EUAIN)
 Workshop on Web Accessibility Certification (WAC – cfr
Support-EAM etc)
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Objective is a Web Accessibility Quality Mark
CWA will describe the requirements for the conformity
scheme and the organizational structure
Requirements document is not in Workshop’s scope
Growing consensus that it should be published as an
ESO deliverable (EN, TS, CWA?)
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Other CEN eAccessibility activities
 CEN/TC 224/WG6 Identification Card Systems - ManMachine Interface
 EN 1332
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Part 1: Design principles for the user interface (annex with icons
being added)
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Part2: Dimensions and location of a tactile identifier for ID-1 cards
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Part 3: Key pads
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Part 4: Coding of user requirements for people with special needs
(under revision)
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Part 5: Raised tactile symbols for differenciation of application on
ID-1 cards (underway)
 CEN/TS 15291:2006 Identification card system - Guidance on
design for accessible card-activated devices
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The Keymark
 The Keymark is a voluntary third-party European certification
mark, demonstrating to the consumer or user of a product
that it is in conformity with the relevant EN(s).
 The Keymark can only be granted by certification bodies that
have been 'empowered' by the CEN Certification Board.
 See requirements by WS/WAC
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EC also supports ETSI/TC HF projects
 Currently operational are:
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STF287:User-oriented handling of multicultural issues in broadband
and narrowband multimedia communications (deliverable ETSI
Guide)
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STF286:Access symbols for use with video content and ICT
devices (Deliverable ETSI Standard)
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STF 285:Enabling and Improving the Use of Mobile e-Services
(Deliverable: 2 ETSI Guides)
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STF 284:Human related technical guidelines for real-time personto-person communication services (EG, ETR and a web-based
tutorial system)
 STF: Specialist Task Force (reporting to TC HF)
 More projects are expected in 2006
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And what about ISO?
 ISO/IEC JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility
 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35/WG6 - User Interfaces for People with
Special Needs -including the Elderly and Disabled
 TC 159/SC 4/WG 5 Software ergonomics and humancomputer dialogues
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Mandate M/376
 European accessibility requirements for public procurement
of products and services in the ICT domain
 Phase I – Inventory of European and international
accessibility requirements and assessment of suitable testing
and conformity schemes
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A CEN/BT Working Group
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ETSI/TC HF
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Also a CENELEC interest
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DATSCG
 Phase II - Standardisation activities
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EN: the requirements for accessibility
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Supported by other standards deliverables
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Summary
 DATSCG co-ordinates
 A wide variety of standards deliverables and processes for
their development
 EC supports European standardization on eAccessibility
 Deliverables related to M/376 will be main focus from
2006/Q2 onwards in the ESOs
Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
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