[Chapter-delegates] ITU Resolution 175- Resolution for the Rights of Disabled Persons

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Gunela Astbrink wrote on 12.11.2014 02:36:
> I wrote that Issues Paper for ISOC back in 2012
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward

which is good.

> and suggested a number of specific activities for ISOC to move on.

oh yes, there have been a lot of ideas and recommendations around.

> Unfortunately, apart from support from the Asia Pacific Bureau to run
> disability workshops as part of PacINET, nothing has happened

I think there are more activities within parts of ISOC esp. in
the regions. (E.g. I do HTML5 workshops -with support from ISO.DE
and other IT orgs- on behalf of W3C.DE. (http://html5-tag.de/)
Each of these addresses accessibility topics. Last year in Vienna
I had Michael Stenitzer one of the leading  Austrian accessibility
evangelists and member of 2 WAI task forces on board.)

But this is not the problem. ISOC is not sooo bad in spreading the
word. But we are rather lazy in following it esp. wrt. standards
(accessibility an important part of it). This is sad in two
respects: we don't gain from standards that we ignore, and we
discredit our message.

> In this field, I have to remain an eternal optimist
After 3 years of continued or occasional admonishing answered
mainly by lip services I think Sisyphus was better off.

My sympathy, Klaus

-- 
Klaus Birkenbihl
Treasurer and Board member
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
c/o ict-Media GmbH
http://www.isoc.de/
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