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Grassroots Accessibility
How Anybody can improve Accessibility for people with disabilities – and why to do it
Domingos de Oliveira
www.oliveira-online.net
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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.
