The status of digital accessibility in France Dominique BURGER Université Pierre et Marie Curie Association BrailleNet [email protected] Funka Accessibility Days – Stockholm – 11 April 2013
Mar 28, 2015
The status of digital accessibility in France
Dominique BURGERUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie
Association BrailleNet
Funka Accessibility Days – Stockholm – 11 April 2013
Outlines
1. Web Accessibility • Regulations in France• AccessiWeb
2. eBook Accessibility • Copyright Exception in France• Biblothèque Numérique Francophone Accessible
France seen from the sky
Stockholm is here
France is there
France seen from MeAC (2011)Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe
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Internet accessibility versus Internet accessibility policy
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
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 ?
AccessiWeb – a Non-for-profit Initiative
Demands BrailleNet’s Answers
Information, clarification, explanations, translations
Guidelines => AccessiWeb 1.0
Advises AccessiWeb 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
AccessiWeb Working Group(GTA)
Technical Seminars 17 seminars since 2003, 850 participants
Translations WCAG 2.0 in French - 25 June 2009First 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 tools MIPAW (in progress)
Technical Discussions Over 5000 Technical messages exchanged since 2003
GTA• 470 professionals trained by BrailleNet • Public and private Sectors • Developers, project managers, Content providers, …
Evolution of the GTA : 2003 - 2013
Developing of a network of Web accessibility experts in France
Missions of the GTA
GTA, a professional community in the field of Web accessibilityTo share common concepts and the same understanding
of accessibility; to exchange good practicesA 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
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
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
2013 Roadmap
Demand BrailleNet’s Answer
Evolution towards HTML5 WAI/ARIA, mobile technologies
Evolution of AccessiWeb reference documents
Need for qualified experts certification scheme extended : conformity + competence
From Certifying Conformity
Quality Control
BrailleNet
AccessiWebReference document
On Line Web Service
Galery of certified WebSites
ComplaintChanel
InspectionBodyInspection
Body
User
Liaisons
Contract
Standardisation Bodies
Agreement of Organizations
To Certifying Competence
Quality Control
BrailleNet
AccessiWebReference document
On Line Web Service
Galery of certified WebSites
ComplaintChanel
InspectionBodyInspection
Body
User
Liaisons
Contract
Standardisation Bodies
Certification of competences
ProfessionnalDirectory
Expert ICAExpert ICA
Expert ICA
Peer Examination
COST -Scientific and Technical Orientation Committee
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
eBook Accessibility
Papier
Read the same books not the same way
Helen Server One unique format addressing various cases
Audio Daisy PDF Braille
XML ePUB 3.0
Daisy Text
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 booksb) A national commission agrees organizations producing adapted booksc) Those organizations may request files via a platform managed by the National Libary
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France
National Accreditation Body
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National Library
Implementing the French exception Law of 1 August 2006 + decree 2008
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Since July 2010
Eligible Users
OCRisation
CORRECTIONS
STRUCTURATION
ADAPTATION
90 to 98 % of costs
2 to 10 % of costs
Process & Costs
Average Cost
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Papier PDF Word XML
Average cost of a book adaptation in €(medium complexity)
Coût moyen (€)
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1h50/book (calculated on 1100 titles of low or medium complexity
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
Œuvres Complètes de Platon, Publisher Flammarion, 2204 pages, 923 footnotes
Notice creation
Quick Check
Automated Conversion XML to Daisy
10 minutes
XML
Bibliothèque Numérique Francophone Accessible
Objectives1. 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
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Catalogue
Helen Library
BNFA
Accessible Publishing Facilitated
2012 ePUB 3.0 contains all accessibility features required by the Daisy ConsortiumIn 2011 IDPF appointed the Daisy CTO as their Chief Technical Officer
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
Thank You !
Questions ?