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Project number: 224348Project acronym: AEGISProject title: Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, StandardsStarting date: 1 September 2008Duration: 48 MonthsAEGIS is an Integrated Project (IP) within the ICT programme of FP7TRANSCRIPT
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European Accessibility Requirements For ICT Procurement – The Status Of Mandate 376
Christophe StrobbeK.U.Leuven, [email protected]
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Legislation and Standards in EU
● EU:● Funding R&D, communications,
resolutions, action plans...● Fragmented landscapes
● Member states● ICT accessibility in legislation
only general anti-discrimination laws↔● National standards and/or variety of
certificates and methodologies
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Background on EU Standardisation
● EU recognizes 3 standardisation bodies● CEN (European Committee for
Standardization)● CENELEC (European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization)● ETSI (European Telecommunications
Standards Institute)
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● European standards (EN)● must be adopted by national
standardisation bodies without modification
● conflicting national standards must be withdrawn
● EU can give mandate to European standardisation bodies, e.g. M376
Background on EU Standardisation
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Other Standardisation Bodies
● Ideally, European standards are consistent with international standards and globally relevant● CEN & ISO: Vienna Agreement
accept each other’s standards→● CENELEC & IEC: Dresden Agreement
● W3C: ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS submitter since October 2010 (“take or leave”)● WCAG 2.0 submitted October 2011
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Mandate 376
● EC mandate to CEN, CENELEC & ETSI● published December 2006● “in support of European Accessibility
Requirements for Public Procurement of Products and Services in the ICT Domain”
● → European standard– national standards to be withdrawn– support legislation
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Mandate 376 Objectives
● “to harmonise and facilitate the public procurement of accessible ICT products and services by identifying a set of functional European accessibility requirements for public procurement of products and services in the ICT domain, and”
● “to provide a mechanism through which the public procurers have access to an electronic toolkit, enabling them to make use of these harmonised requirements in procurement process.”
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Mandate 376 Phases
● Phase 1: “Inventory of European and international accessibility requirements and assessment of suitable testing and conformity schemes”
● Phase 2: “Standardisation activities”
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Mandate 376 Phase 1
● Results: 2 reports (2008)● CEN WG: standards for conformity
assessment, existing conformity assessments and schemes, …
● ETSI TF: ICT products and services bought by public procurers, accessibility standards, functional requirements (+ gaps), ...
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Mandate 376 Phase 2
● Joint Working Group (JWG) of CEN, CENELEC and ETSI to manage Phase 2
● Two teams:● ETSI specialist task force (STF) focuses
on the accessibility requirements themselves
● CEN/CENELEC team creates guidance material and an online toolkit
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Mandate 376 Phase 2
● Joint Working Group approves the TR (Technical reports) and EN (European Norm)
● EN also goes through formal adoption process● triple logo: CEN, CENELEC, ETSI
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Participating in Phase 2
● Open consultation meetings are held on interim and final drafts● past meetings: 11 May, 28 Oct 2011
● Track http://www.mandate376.eu/ ● No list or other channel to get notified
of new drafts or meetingsSecretariat advises you to contact national standardisation body or ETSI to join the Joint Working Group.
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Time PlanFebruary 2011 Start of work.
March 2011 Table of Contents and Scope for the standard and Technical Reports
11 May 2011 Joint Open Workshop to involve the procurement community
June 2011 Draft of the standard and Technical Reports containing scope and table of contents
July 2011 Initial drafts of the standard and Technical Reports available for comment
August 2011 The call for tenders to develop the online toolkit (D5) is published
October 2011 Stable drafts of D1, the standard (EN), and Technical Reports D2 and D3
January 2012 Final drafts of D1, the standard (EN), and Technical Reports D2 and D3
March 2012 Final drafts to be approved by the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Joint Working Group
June 2012 Standard submitted for Public Enquiry. Technical Reports D2, D3 and D4 published
August 2012 Technical Report D6 published; draft version of the toolkit (D5) released
March-August 2013 Comment resolution and National Standards Organisation (NSO) voting
September 2013 D1, the standard (EN), is published
October 2013 The final version of the toolkit (D5) is released
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Current Drafts (D1)
● Draft ETSI EN 301 549● content copied from TR 102 612 (from
Phase 1); some new content● tries to maximise alignment with
Section 508 refresh● WCAG 2.0 will be added as a normative
appendix
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Current Drafts (D2)
● Draft ETSI TR 101 550● initial draft that lists the documents
used in the creation of EN 301 549● “provides additional explanation to
assist users of the EN with clarifications and supporting information about measurement methods, particularly where no globally agreed test presently exists”
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Current Drafts (D3, D4)
● Draft ETSI TR 101 551● Outline of report about award criteria
for ICT products and services● Discusses a few European directives
that are relevant to procurement● D4:
● Initial draft ● Guidance on conformity assessment
systems or schemes
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Current Drafts (D5, D6)
● D5 ( toolkit)→● discusses existing toolkits, describes the
scope of the toolkit, audience and requirements gathering for the toolkit, and content and structure of the toolkit.
● D6● contains additional guidance that will be
included into the toolkit, for example, introductory notes on accessiblity
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What’s Next
● Next drafts scheduled January 2012● Check Mandate 376 website:
http://www.mandate376.eu/● Submit comments...