China Web Accessibility Standard Wu Yinghua wuyinghua catr cn

China Web Accessibility Standard Wu Yinghua wuyinghua@catr. cn 1

Information Accessibility Standard √ standard background · development procedure · Standard content · Standard application · Finality 2

Standard development background The second china national sampling survey statistical data Common Persons Disabled people 82，960，000 Total Population 6. 34% Disabled Persons Visual Impaired visual impaired 12，330，000 14. 86% audition impaired 20，040，000 24. 16% speech impaired 2，700，000 1. 53% Other Audition Impaired Speech Impaired 3

Standard development background • Chinese disabled people long for browsing internet. • Internet could give blind children more opportunity to enjoy good education. • Internet could give blind adults more opportunity to get a job. 4

Standard development background • An accessible Web can provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities. • An accessible Web can also help people with disabilities more actively participate in society. 5

Information Accessibility Standard · Standard background √ Development procedure · Standard content · Standard application · Finality 6

Standard development procedure Cooperate with social welfare organizations, investigate the problems which the special persons have to face when they browse internet. – China Disabled Persons’ Federation(CDPF) – China National Committee On Aging (CNCA) – Internet Society of China (ISC) 7

Standard development background • Blind persons use screen reader software which could not get all web content if the web pages is not well designed according to accessible rules. • Audition impaired persons have difficulty in browsing video content. • Older persons are troubled by crowded small characters in the web page. 8

Standard development procedure Cooperate with accessible product developer to search solutions and develop standard. – China Braille Publishing House (CBPH) – Haerbin E-times Digital Technology – International Business Machines – Hitachi , etc. 9

In 2008, the First Chinese web accessibility standard was issued In Mar. 13, 2008, the First China web accessibility standard was issued by MIIT, which is named: Information Accessibility – for People with Physical Disabilities – Technical Requirements for Web Accessibility (YD 1761 -2008) 10

Information Accessibility Standard · Standard background · Development procedure √ Standard content · Standard application · Finality 11

Chinese web accessibility standard content • The content of Chinese web accessibility standard includes four parts about how to make the web page perceivable, operable, understandable and compatible. • In each part of the standard, detailed rules are given and each rule are composed of three levels of requirements, lower level requirements are easier to be satisfied than higher level ones. 12

Chinese web accessibility standard content The first part gives suggestions about how to make the web page perceivable to all people: – Provide text alternatives for all non-text content – Provide synchronized alternatives for multimedia – Ensure that information and structure can be separated from presentation – Make it easy to distinguish foreground information from its background 13

Chinese web accessibility standard content The second part gives suggestions about how to make the web page operable for all people: – Make all functionality operable via a keyboard interface – Allow users to control time limits on their reading or interaction – Allow users to avoid content that could cause seizures – Provide mechanisms to help users find content, orient themselves within it, and navigate through it – Help users avoid mistakes and make it easy to correct mistakes that do occur 14

Chinese web accessibility standard content The third part gives suggestions about how to make the web page understandable to all people: – Make text content readable and understandable. – Make the placement and functionality of content predictable. 15

Chinese web accessibility standard content The forth part gives some rules about web page compatibility: – Support compatibility with current and future user agents (including assistive technologies) – Ensure that content is accessible or provide an accessible alternative 16

Information Accessibility Standard · Standard background · Development procedure · Standard content √ Standard application · Finality 17

Chinese Web Accessibility Standard Application • In 2008, Olympic Games and Paralympics Games were held in Beijing, these games drew attention of the world and lots of news would be issued in web sites. • In order to help people with disabilities browse internet, CDPF, ISC and CCSA initiated a web accessibility action, and use YD 1761 -2008 standard as a guideline standard. 18

Standard Application in Beijing • Several main government web sites and portal web site join this action, built an accessible Olympic and Paralympics subject channel for people with disabilities according to standard YD 1761 -2008 , • The web sites include Beijing Olympic Official Web site, China Portal Web site, CCTV, Xinhua, China Youth , sina, baidu, 21 CN web site etc. 19

Standard Application in Shanghai In 2010，four government web sites initiated their web site accessible transformation project according to our standard: • the official website for the Shanghai Municipal People's Government • the official website for the Shanghai civil affairs bureau • The official website for Shang. Hai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau • The official website for Shanghai Municipal Justice Administration 20

Information Accessibility Standard · Standard background · Development procedure · Standard content · Standard application √ Finality 21

Finality: CATR have developed these information accessibility standards： • Information Accessibility - for People with physical disabilities – Technical Requirements for Web Accessibility （issued in Mar. 2008 by MIIT） • Information Accessibility - for People with Physical Disabilities - Testing Specification for Web Content Accessibility Evaluation （ issued in Jul. 2008 by MIIT） • Information Accessibility Design Guidelines to Information Terminal Equipment for Persons with Physical Disabilities（issued in Dec. 2009 by MIIT） 22

Finality: CATR have developed these information accessibility： • The Requirements of Hearing Aids Compatibility and Test Methods for Telephone Handset （issued in Jun. 2009 by MIIT） • Requirements and Test Methods for Compatibility between Wireless Communication Devices and Hearing Aids（issued in Jul. 2007 by MIIT） • Technological Requirement of Voice-Enabled Web Service（will be issued） • Information Accessibility Technological Requirement for Call Center（will be issued） 23

Finality: CATR has developed these information accessibility standard: • Information Accessibility Technical Requirements for Deaf Assistant System in Public Place（will be issued） • Application profile – Sign language and lip-reading real-time conversation using low bit-rate video communication（will be issued） • Definitions, Symbols and Commands for Information Accessibility（ will be issued） 24

Finality: Research direction： – developing standards for people with Physical hypofunction – developing standard for indigent people – developing standards for all people. 25

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