grassroots accessibility

Grassroots Accessibility

How Anybody can improve Accessibility for people with disabilities – and why to do it

Domingos de Oliveira

www.oliveira-online.net

domingos20000@googlemail.com

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Overview

• Status Quo• What to do• And why

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Status Quo

• Accessibility mainly is enforced through governmental rules (top-down).

• We need this rules in many areas, but they can not fix all problems.

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Targets

• Accessibility bottum up

• go to the people• tell them about

accessibility• and convince them

what they can do.

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Approaches

• Better Communication

• Crowdsourcing

• Crowdfunding

• Connecting with engaged people

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Better Communication

• People with disabilities share their personal story about their difficulties.

• The reports should be personal, multimedial and authentic, for example they can use Storify, info graphics, Audio or Video.

• Go into public, make live demonstrations of assisting technology, show people, how it works, let them try it.

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Crowdsourcing

• OpenStreetMap or Wheelmap to fix mobility problems.

• WebVisum to fix A11Y-Problems on Websites for the Blinds.

• It´s an easy way to show people how A11Y works and what they can do.

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OpenSource

• Using all day technology to help people with disabilities: (MS Kinect, Google Glass, Augmented Reality)

• Fixing problems in existing assiting technlogy, fix my hearing aid.

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CrowdFunding

• Community financed development of cheap assisting technology and software.

• In the end there are cheaper and customizable aids.

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Connecting

• Win engaged people from other communities for A11Y.

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Summary

• Accessibility can not be achieved only by top down rules.

• People with disabilities have to play a bigger role in engagement for A11Y.

• We have to use modern public relations tools to reach our goals: a more accessible and open world for all of us. We have to win the hearts, not only the heads.

Thank You!

Domingos de Oliveirawww.oliveira-online.net

domingos20000@googlemail.com