IGF 2018 WS #173
Web Accessibility & Education for Disconnected Communities

Issue(s)

Organizer 1: Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram, SBM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Organizer 2: Noha Ashraf Abdel Baky, ISOC

Speaker 1: Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2: Jay Paudyal, Private Sector, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 3: Noha Ashraf Abdel Baky, Civil Society, Intergovernmental Organization
Speaker 4: Priyatosh Jana, Technical Community, Asia-Pacific Group

Moderator

Priyatosh Jana

Online Moderator

Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram

Rapporteur

NOHA

Format

Panel - 60 Min

Interventions

We have four speakers everyone will talk 7 minutes then the audience and room attendance will take a part to discuss the points raised and finally, we will read the recommendations

Diversity

Noha, Female, Egypt, Technical community
Jay Paudyal, Male, India, Private Sector
Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram, Male, India, Academic
Priyatosh Jana, Male, India, Academic

ACCESSIBILITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
• Accessibility team composition
• Integrated testing tools
• Design for mobile devices

Gender
Geographic locations
Disabilities of Web accessibility

Policy, top–down support, educational working groups, customer data, and a central accessibility team have helped mature web accessibility at IGF. Collaboration groups are essential for gathering feedback from users with disabilities and experts in the field. Alt text for figures is a challenge for publishers, and using authors or machine learning to provide text descriptions may be a solution.
Accessibility is not an achievement to be won and done but a culture paradigm that integrates inclusive design into the very early phases of a product.

Online Participation

We have trained online moderator.