1. The status of digital accessibility in France Dominique BURGER Université Pierre et Marie Curie Association BrailleNet dominique.burger@upmc.fr Funka Accessibility Days – Stockholm – 11 April 2013

2. Outlines 1.Web Accessibility Regulations in France AccessiWeb 2.eBook Accessibility Copyright Exception in France Biblothèque Numérique Francophone Accessible

3. France seen from the sky Stockholm is here France is there

4. France seen from MeAC (2011) Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe Internet accessibility versus Internet accessibility policy

5. A brief story of Web Accessibility in France 1999 2005 W3C/WAI releases WCAG 1.0 (May 99) Circular of the Prime Minister (Oct. 99) European recommendations : communications of the commission 2001, 2002; resolution of the Parliament 2002 AccessiWeb 1.0 by BrailleNet Adoption of AccessiWeb by the French government Law of 11 february 2005 – art 47 2003 2004

6. Law of 11 february 2005 – art 47 11/02/05 - The Law for Equal Rights and Opportunities, Participation and Citizenship of People with Disabilities Article 47, makes accessibility of all public digital communication services mandatory, i.e. public websites, but also phone and TV services, according to international standards. 10/09 - Decree The decree refers to a technical reference document (RGAA) that specifies requirements for public Web sites. This document is based on WCAG 2.0 Employees of public services should be trained Conformity is Self Declarative No control authority No declarations No plan for large-scale training e-Accessibility skills insufficient law decree and ?

7. AccessiWeb – a Non-for-profit Initiative DemandsBrailleNets Answers Information, clarification, explanations, translations Guidelines => AccessiWeb 1.0 AdvisesAccessiWeb Training Conformity Assessment 3rd Party certification procedure (label AccessiWeb) 2003 : Launch of the GTA (AccessiWeb Working Group ) Without professional skills policies remain unfulfilled Skills are supported by communities 20032013

8. AccessiWeb Working Group(GTA) Technical Seminars17 seminars since 2003, 850 participants Translations WCAG 2.0 in French - 25 June 2009 First W3C authorized translation Comprendre les WCAG 2.0 - 6 July 2011 Technical Reference documents AccessiWeb 5 versions de 1.0 à 2.2, AccessiWeb CMS 1.0 Methodological toolsMIPAW (in progress) Technical DiscussionsOver 5000 Technical messages exchanged since 2003 GTA 470 professionals trained by BrailleNet Public and private Sectors Developers, project managers, Content providers, …

9. Evolution of the GTA : 2003 - 2013 Developing of a network of Web accessibility experts in France

10. Missions of the GTA GTA, a professional community in the field of Web accessibility To share common concepts and the same understanding of accessibility; to exchange good practices A working method to make the expertise evolve consensually A core of experts Expert Referees Open calls for Comments (GTA and beyond) Applied with success to Translations Versioning reference documents: 5 versions of AccessiWeb 1.0 to 2.2 Elaborating a certification schema (in progress) To help professionals developing and shape their expertise in Web accessibility

11. Liaison standardization bodies : W3C and DAISY Transparency Cooperation with industry Respond to demands from industry Independence - Vendor Neutrality Cooperative work Make consensus emerge International cooperation Main leading Principles Make collective expertise emerge from individual know-how

12. Non-for-profit association Public support Partnership with public institutions Support from companies Services : training, conformity audits Contribution from members Business Model To adapt to market conditions To control the costs To Remain small

13. 2013 Roadmap DemandBrailleNets Answer Evolution towards HTML5 WAI/ARIA, mobile technologies Evolution of AccessiWeb reference documents Need for qualified experts certification scheme extended : conformity + competence

14. From Certifying Conformity Quality Control BrailleNet AccessiWeb Reference document On Line Web Service Galery of certified WebSites Complaint Chanel Inspection Body Inspection Body User Liaisons Contract Standardisation Bodies

15. Agreement of Organizations To Certifying Competence Quality Control BrailleNet AccessiWeb Reference document On Line Web Service Galery of certified WebSites Complaint Chanel Inspection Body Inspection Body User Liaisons Contract Standardisation Bodies Certification of competences Professionnal Directory Expert ICA Peer Examination COST -Scientific and Technical Orientation Committee

16. Over 10 years, AccessiWeb Working Group contributed to : effective dissemination of standards and best practices structuring of a professional sector set up a de facto authority (BrailleNet / AccessiWeb) provide an economical model the legitimity and credibility of e-accessibility People and communities do matter ! Conclusions

17. eBook Accessibility

18. Papier Read the same books not the same way

19. Helen Server One unique format addressing various cases Audio Daisy PDFBraille XML ePUB 3.0 Daisy Text

20. Copyright exception in France 2001 2008 European Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society Law of 1 August 2006 – art 47 (DADVSI) decree n° 2008-1391 of 19 December 2008 a)Publishers provide files used to produce books b) A national commission agrees organizations producing adapted books c) Those organizations may request files via a platform managed by the National Libary 2006 2010

21. Bibliothèque Nationale de France National Accreditation Body Authorized organization Authorized organization National Library Implementing the French exception Law of 1 August 2006 + decree 2008 Authorized organization Since July 2010 Eligible Users

22. OCRisation CORRECTIONS STRUCTURATION ADAPTATION 90 to 98 % of costs 2 to 10 % of costs Process & Costs

23. Average Cost XML 1h50/book (calculated on 1100 titles of low or medium complexity

24. Bad vs Best La santé de Louis XIV, Publisher Tempus 699 pages, 156 pages of notes Notice creation OCR Structuration and correction And – the worse – processing footnotes 25 hours PDF Œuvres Complètes de Platon, Publisher Flammarion, 2204 pages, 923 footnotes Notice creation Quick Check Automated Conversion XML to Daisy 10 minutes XML

25. Bibliothèque Numérique Francophone Accessible Objectives 1.Better service to print disabled readers (unified procedures, larger catalogue, better quality) 2.Efficiency of production (sharing tools, methods and resources) 3.Transparency to right holders 4.Dialogue with publishers = ++

26. Catalogue Helen Library BNFA

27. Accessible Publishing Facilitated 2012 ePUB 3.0 contains all accessibility features required by the Daisy Consortium In 2011 IDPF appointed the Daisy CTO as their Chief Technical Officer

28. Technologies and standards have completely changed the production process of books that are accessible to the print disabled The production of accessible books and mainstream commercial books are fundamentally similar Organization producing accessible books and publishers should cooperate Copyright Exceptions exist in many countries However, the cross border exchange of adapted books is not solved (TIGAR exploratory project run by WIPO) Conclusions

29. Thank You ! Questions ?