Icons to Hardware: The evolving range of ISO & ISO/IEC International Accessibility Standards Jim Carter USERLab University of Saskatchewan BSI/JISC CETIS Accessibility Standards Workshop

Scope of this presentation While an increasing number of groups in ISO and ISO/IEC are involved in accessibility standards, this presentation will focus on the standards of: ISO Technical Committee TC159 Ergonomics Sub Committee 4 Ergonomics of Human-system interaction ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 Information Technology Sub Committee 35 User Interfaces BSI Icons to hardware 2

Stds with broad applicability ISO :2008 Accessibility guidelines for information/communication technology (ICT) equipment and services ISO/IEC :2011 Information Technology — Interoperability with Assistive Technology (AT) ISO :2008 Guidance on software accessibility ISO/IEC 29136:201x Accessibility of personal computer hardware BSI Icons to hardware 3

Stds with broad applicability ISO ICT accessibility Focuses accessibility guidance on characteristics of: users, tasks, equipment and services, and environment Also includes basic guidance on managing development ISO/IEC IT-AT interoperability Focuses interoperability guidance on: HW to HW, HW to SW, and SW to SW interfaces Both ISO Software accessibility and ISO/IEC Hardware accessibility Focus accessibility guidance on: general issues, inputs, and outputs BSI Icons to hardware 4

Stds with broad applicability ISO/IEC 24756: 2009 Framework for specifying a common access profile (CAP) of needs and capabilities of users, systems, and their environments is based on the Universal Access Reference Model, which focuses on overcoming handicaps to interactions without allocating blame to the sources of the handicaps provides a common, computable manner of identify capabilities of users, systems (including AT), environments BSI Icons to hardware 5

Accessibility going mainstream ISO/IEC 19766: 2007 Guidelines for the design of icons and symbols to be accessible to all users – Including the elderly and persons with disabilities Has now been completely incorporated within: ISO/IEC : 2010 Information Technology — User Interface Icons —Framework and General Guidance BSI Icons to hardware 6

Accessibility going mainstream ISO : 2010 Guidance on accessibility Was developed as a mainstream standard, incorporating accessibility concerns Identifies “accessibility” as the first of its five main principles (and can work with the JTC1/SC36 series on: ISO/IEC , Individualized Adaptability and Accessibility in E-learning, Education and Training BSI Icons to hardware 7

Component Accessibility ISO/IEC 24786: 2010 Accessible user interface for accessibility settings ISO/IEC Accessibility API Technical Reports Provide supplementary information on how various accessibility APIs can help meet the requirements of ISO/IEC Current TR’s under development: Part 2: Windows automation framework accessibility API Part 3: I-Accessible2 accessibility API Part 4: Linux/UNIX graphical environments accessibility API Part 6: Java accessibility API. BSI Icons to hardware 8

Component Accessibility A new series has just begun: ISO/IEC User interface component accessibility Part 11 – TR Guidance on creating alternative text for images Working Draft currently under development Potential future parts: Accessible Video Content: Descriptive Video and Closed Captioning Accessible navigation …. BSI Icons to hardware 9