WADcher tools for EU Web Accessibility Directive

compliance monitoring bodies

Project presentation

Dr. Carlos A Velasco, Dr. Yehya Mohamad

(Fraunhofer)

https://wadcher.eu/

Agenda

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Time slot Topic

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and agenda review. Logistics (Yehya Mohamad, Fraunhofer Society)

10:10 – 10:30 Project presentation (Carlos A Velasco, Fraunhofer Society)

10:30 – 11:00 WADcher sustainability, exploitation and rollout (John O’Flaherty, MAC)

11:00 – 11:20 WADcher Observatory concepts (Martin Breidenbach, Fraunhofer Society)

11:20 – 11:40 WADcher Observatory live demo (Martin Breidenbach and Rohit R Hegde, Fraunhofer Society)

11:40 – 11:55Integration of different accessibility evaluation tools: the WADcher APIs (Carlos A Velasco, Fraunhofer Society)

11:55 – 12:10 Tools for monitoring bodies (Martin Breidenbach and Rohit R Hegde, Fraunhofer Society)

12:10 – 12:20 DSE concepts (Aggeliki Spyrou, CERTH)

12:20 – 12:30 DSE live demo (Aggeliki Spyrou, CERTH)

12:30 – 13:00 Q&A session, discussion: harmonisation issues, involvement, data gathering, etc.

General overview

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Project partners

Horizon 2020 IA (Grant Agreement No 780206) Duration: Jan 2018 – Mar 2021

Project partners (6 countries) Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Fraunhofer

FIT (Germany) The National Microelectronics Applications Centre LTD (MAC, Ireland) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, Italy) Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreichs (HG, Austria) Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale (AgID, Italy) Dextera Consulting Ltd (Cyprus) Hellenic Ministry for Health (ΜοΗ, Greece) Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (CERTH, Greece)

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Aim

Research, develop and demonstrate an innovative and

sustainable Decision Support Environment + WAD Observatory for large scale web accessibility

assessment services

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Which issues are we addressing?

Large-scale monitoring of WAD compliance

Improving the lack of knowledge/skills for building accessible web solutions with monitoring and evaluation tools

Harmonizing a set of procedures based on semantic standards (EARL) to avoid different standards/regulations interpretations

Optimizing accessibility implementation costs

Integration of different accessibility evaluation tools

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WADcher is NOT about …

Developing a new web accessibility testing tool!

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Objectives

Build a large-scale WAD assessment infrastructure

Develop and demonstrate advanced decision support tools for assisting developers and designers to create accessible assets

Implement a web accessibility observatory platform for hybrid combination of automatic/expert reviews

Validate WADcher results in real pilot settings

Develop methods and to measure the evidence, accuracy and quality of testing results

Liaise with standardisation bodies WAI-Tools Project

Sustainable exploitation

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Pilot sites

Generic objectives: WADcher tools evaluation

Periodic WAD simplified monitoring and in-depth testing

WAD Evaluation Reports

Generating WAD Accessibility Statements

Periodic National WAD Reports

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WADcher Target User Groups

WAD Monitoring and Policy Bodies EU, National WAD-related bodies, NGOs dealing with WAD monitoring +

implementation

Web Applications Providers and Commissioners Public organisations responsible for commissioning the content and

multimedia of Web sites, also private enterprises

Content and Tool Developers + Designers To support them in development/testing of accessible web applications

Web Accessibility Experts To interpret their results, provide guidance, certification

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Technical overview

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Web AccessibilityEvaluation Tools

Application Layer

Service Layer

Users

SemanticInteroperability

LDAPserver

Authentication/Authorization

ACL/Roles

WADcher Observatory WADcher DSE

Message BrokerServiceOrchestrator

Security Layer

Knowledge Layer

Persistence Layer

WADcherAPIs

DataAnalytics

Guidelines/Regulations

imergo®

MAUVE

WaaT

OtherTools

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Q&A

Project website:https://wadcher.eu/

LinkedIn group: WAD - Web Accessibility Directive Support Environment – WADcherhttps://linkedin.com/groups/8741067/

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Photo by Marc Mintel on Unsplash

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Thank you for your attention!

WADcher (Web Accessibility Directive Decision Support Environment) has

received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant

agreement No 780206.https://wadcher.eu/

© WADcher Consortium 2020

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