[Chapter-delegates] Fw: Pease Read
Mark Urban
docurban at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 12:54:38 PST 2015
Hi Lia,
Please reach out to me about how the Disability and Special Needs Chapter
can assist with this effort.
Regards,
Mark D. Urban
Vice-Chair, ISOC DSN
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lia Kiessling <kiessling at isoc.org> wrote:
> Hi Klaus et all
>
>
> Klaus I've responded to you personally but thought it would also be
> great to post here so others are looped in.
>
>
> Thank you for always being an advocate of our site - it's great to have
> a strong and passionate community! You are correct - the homepage only has
> been experiencing some blips on the multilingual side but this is now
> resolved and the translated content should start appearing as early as
> tomorrow.
>
>
> I'd also like to take the chance to invite others to be a part of our
> accessibility working group. We've got a great team started. If you'd be
> interested in being a part of it please send me an email and I can send you
> more details. If you can't formally be a part of the group but would like
> to follow along on discussions, contribute ideas, share best-practices, and
> being a part of web accessibility goal setting you will be more than
> welcome. We'll have more details on how you can be a part of this is the
> coming days. Please feel free to get in touch with me any time about this.
>
>
> Thanks again to all for helping to ensure we are moving towards a great
> web presence
>
>
> Lia
>
>
>
> *From:* Klaus Birkenbihl <Klaus.Birkenbihl at Isoc.de>
> *Date:* January 29, 2015 at 2:50:57 PM GMT+1
> *To:* Kathy Brown <brown at isoc.org>
> *Cc:* "chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org" <
> chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> *Subject:* *Re: [Chapter-delegates] Once again: accessibility and ISOC's
> website [was: Happy new year!]*
>
> is it always me to disclose Web-site oddities？
>
> After talking about ISOC being a multilingual organization on the European
> chapters workshop this morning, I decided to practice some multilingualism
> and payed a visit to our new home page which proudly offers:
>
> * العربية <http://www.internetsociety.org/ar>
> * 简体中文 <http://www.internetsociety.org/zh-hans>
> * English <http://www.internetsociety.org/>
> * Français <http://www.internetsociety.org/fr>
> * Русский <http://www.internetsociety.org/ru>
> * Español <http://www.internetsociety.org/es>
>
> Wow! I decided to challenge my 中文
> <http://www.internetsociety.org/zh-hans>. Surprise! Though my skills are
> rather basic I could read everything. Guess what: the same applies
> for every translation exceptEspañol <http://www.internetsociety.org/es>.
>
> Though not by intend: if you are a native 中国人 and don't speek
> English you might feel fooled.
>
> Klaus
>
> Kathy Brown schrieb am 09.01.2015 um 13:00:
>
> Klaus and all,
>
>
> We did, indeed, pick up your message --I meant to reply yesterday but
> the day got away from me. We take time, though, to talk through your very
> helpful intervention and to make some immediate improvements as per your
> recommendations.
>
>
> As you rightly point out, we need to bake accessibility into our design
> and initial planning for all communication. I agree that it is a quality
> issue. It is also a "principle" issue. If we say that the Internet is for
> everyone, we better mean everyone.
>
>
> We are about to begin an upgrade for the ISOC site. Now is the time to
> set the design and quality standards for all aspects of our communications.
> The BY THE NUMBERs piece was an attempt to make data alive--something I
> think that is very important. Help us think through and perfect how to make
> these type of design experiments work for everyone.
>
>
> Lia Kiessling will be point on this for Staff. Expert input is key to
> the process so I asked her to reach out to you. There's also the Disability
> and Special Needs Chapter that both you and Lia can coordinate with. I
> believe you have Lia's Skype details so I'll leave it with the two of you
> to start this needed process.
>
>
> Thank you, again, for your quick, thorough and helpful contribution. We
> all, together, need to continue to build the Internet and the Internet
> Society for everyone.
>
> Kathy Brown
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:27 AM, Klaus Birkenbihl <Klaus.Birkenbihl at Isoc.de>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Gunela and Judith,
>
>
> Gunela, I appreciate your paper
>
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward
>
> (crazy enough it doesn't mention you authored it). And I'm not saying
>
> we are bad at preaching. But we often forget to drink the water we preach.
>
>
> So we should not be overly optimistic. Accessibility is part of
>
> quality. Given that we have this discussion since 3 years now and
>
> neither tools, procedures nor means for quality assurance have been
>
> installed, and given the observation that this topic is treated
>
> carelessly, I'm afraid that hope alone will not make it. Asimple bug
>
> tracker would provide the means to properly handle issues and is
>
> minimum state of the art today.
>
>
> But good news (and a new experience): somebody obviously picked my
>
> message up quickly and provided alt texts at least for
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/. (Maybe it was already done when
>
> Gunela checked the page after my mail. The page source I downloaded at
>
> 2015-01-08 08:50UTC has no alt texts at all for the main part of the
>
> page).
>
>
> Best, Klaus
>
>
> Judith Hellerstein schrieb am 09.01.2015 um 02:04:
>
> HI Gunella,
>
>
> Thanks for your very helpful note. Glenn and I have been working on
>
> these same issues with Paul Brigner, the North American Regional
>
> Director and he is very much wanting to make the site, the videos
>
> that his region generates, and the events that NA Chapters hold more
>
> accessible. We talked to him about the need for captioning of
>
> events and the short videos that ISOC does. We are hoping for many
>
> changes and positive moves on accessibility front now that ISOC has
>
> a new Communications Director James Wood. Glenn and I shared with
>
> Paul and others in ISOC the excellent session that Pat Graves had
>
> done for the ICANN Technology Task Force and also introduced Pat
>
> Graves to Paul Brigner.
>
>
> Let's hope for an increased accessibility of ISOC events, videos,
>
> and website for the coming year
>
>
> Best,
>
> Judith Hellerstein
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> On 1/8/2015 3:42 PM, Gunela Astbrink wrote:
>
> Happy New Year everyone,
>
>
> As I've done for years, I support improved accessibility.
>
>
> Thank you to Klaus for updating us on the accessibility status of
>
> ISOC's website.
>
>
> I do note that some of the alt tags on the home page are empty
>
> while many images are well-described. However, there are a number
>
> of other accessibility issues including the need to caption videos.
>
>
> I think that ISOC made an effort a few years to make its website
>
> accessible. The problem is that if there isn't an embedded
>
> principle of accessibility within ISOC's communication policy and
>
> practice (including guides and templates), as the website changes
>
> accessibility may be forgotten. This also relates to the level of
>
> staff awareness of accessibility.
>
>
> I remain hopeful that ISOC's website will meet and then retain
>
> W3C's WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
>
>
> I know some staff support accessibility especially in Chapters
>
> including the Community Grants program of which the Australian
>
> Chapter has been successful in running capacity-building and
>
> awareness training in the Asia-Pacific region.
>
>
> However, the central work of ISOC HQ is vital. This goes beyond web
>
> accessibility. Further details are in the paper I wrote for ISOC:
>
> "Internet Accessibility: Internet use by persons with disabilities:
>
> Moving Forward"
>
> <
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward
> >
>
>
> It is useful to see that organisations such as ICANN, ITU and IGF
>
> are all working on accessibility in different ways.
>
>
> ICANN - RFP for web accessibility analysis
>
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-23-en
>
>
> ITU - a number of actions including Resolution 175 (rev) from the
>
> 2014 Plenipotentiary, internal accessibility, incorporating
>
> accessibility in standards development and encouraging Member
>
> States to improve ICT accessibility.
>
>
> https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/renewing-itus-mandate-to-promote-ict-accessibility/
>
>
>
> IGF - Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability. Its latest
>
> output is a guide to accessible meetings.
>
>
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/dynamic-coalitions/dynamic-coalition-on-accessibility-and-disability/258-igf-2014-dcad-accessibility-guidelines-final-v5/file
>
>
>
> I look forward to working with ISOC on accessibility in 2015. We
>
> may see good things happening.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gunela
>
>
>
> Klaus Birkenbihl said the following on 8/01/15 20:17 :
>
> Happy new year to everybody!
>
>
> Following Kathy's Onto 2015! HNY
>
> <https://twitter.com/KathrynCBrown/status/552942319238799360>! I
>
> ended
>
> up on this page:
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-numbers.
>
>
> Wow a lot of info, a lot of figures, some meaningless but some
>
> impressive. And a great artwork.
>
>
> From there I payed a visit to our home page
>
> <http://www.internetsociety.org/> . New layout
>
> big images, not too much text ...
>
>
> From there I checked weather we still think accessibility is
>
> important. Yes we do "Internet Accessibility: Internet use by
>
> persons with disabilities: Moving Forward"
>
> <
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward
> >
>
>
> is still out there.
>
>
> There is an ongoing promise since the last relaunch of our
>
> precious home site that we at ISOC will follow the principles
>
> we published in the before mentioned document.
>
>
> The most simple, famous and first rule to achieve accessibility
>
> is "Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that
>
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#text-equiv>
>
> it can be changed into other forms people need, such as
>
> large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.
>
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#text-equiv>"
>
> HTML, the source language of Web pages provides easy
>
> means to do so.
>
>
> After so many years of discussion, delay, lip prayers one
>
> has to learn things are getting worse. Nearly all alternative
>
> texts for pictures on "http://www.internetsociety.org/" are
>
> "" (nullstring, nothing, nix nada!). You might argue, that the
>
> images are decorative only. Hm, they cover 80% of the
>
> page - so even this should be explained.
>
>
> But on the top of the tops you find
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-numbers.
>
> All info in a pixle (png) file no alt text no underlying link,
>
> and all text within the graph in a small - even for somebody
>
> who is not visually impaired - nearly unreadable print.
>
>
> This wonderful artwork would have been the case for
>
> a wonderful technology - part of HTML5 and processed by
>
> all modern browsers - called SVG! With at least the
>
> following advantages:
>
>
> * provides better accessibility
>
> * provides searchability
>
> * can be infinitely scaled (without breaking apart into pixle
>
> squares)
>
>
> I wish you all a usable and accessible 2015 - at least outside ISOC,
>
>
> Klaus
>
>
> PS.: In case you want to read the contents of
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-society-numbers
>
> I recommend
>
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Internet%20Society%20By%20The%20Numbers.pdf
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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