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Creating a more inclusive society
Suzette Keith and Gill [email protected]; [email protected]
The Design for All Research GroupSchool of Engineering and Information
Sciences Middlesex University
EDeANEuropean
Design for All and
eAccessibilty Network
The Design for All Research Group Mission: To utilise current and new high quality research
theories and methodologies to enable all people, including older people and people with disabilities to be eIncluded and participate in the electronic knowledge revolution
Aim: to carry out Design for All Research that combines and verifies relevant theory from a range of disciplines
Impact: the results of our research is used to influence policy makers, professionals, academics and researchers EU FP6 CA: Design for All @eInclusion NDA: Sus-IT - Sustaining autonomy of older adults
Creating a more inclusive society
A participant driven discussion on how we can all help to maximise accessibility in everyday products and services. How can we:
Make technology more 'people friendly' especially for older people and disadvantaged people?
‘Raise the floor’ to improve access to digital technologies? Empower older people and disabled people to define when
technology can (and can't) help?
Digital Inclusion"Many Europeans still get too little benefit from information and communication technologies, and millions are at risk of being left behind“
Viviane Reding (European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship), Riga; June 2006
What is Design for All? One of many definitions:
“Design for All aims to enable all people to have equal opportunities to participate in every aspect of society. To achieve this, the built environment, everyday objects, services, culture and information – in short, everything that is designed and made by people to be used by people – must be accessible, convenient for everyone in society to use and responsive to evolving human diversity. The practice of Design for All makes conscious use of the analysis of human needs and aspirations and requires the involvement of end users at every stage in the design process.”
From The EIDD Stockholm Declaration©, 2004http://www.designforalleurope.org/Design-for-All/
Digital exclusion Understanding Digital Exclusion - Research Report,
Conclusions and recommendations
The need to change attitudes The need to improve skills, confidence and trust The need to support those vulnerable in the use of wider
digital technologies Further work
Published in Understanding Digital Exclusion - Research Report, October 2008, Communities and neighbourhoods, Communities and Local Government, United Kingdom
Anyone- Anywhere Any Device Access
National Public Inclusive Infrastructure (NPII) (and GPII)
Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.Professor of Industrial and Biomedical Engineering
Director Trace R&D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ProblemAccess no longer optional
For education, employment, commerce, health or safety
Access solutions not available for all All types, degrees and combinations of disability
All too complex For users, for public access points, for governments
Access not affordable to all Not affordable to users, public access points, or gov
Awareness
Raising the Floor
Putting the Web within reach of all those withdisability, literacy, or aging related barriers,
regardless of their economic status.
Original focus on just the “can’t afford” aspect Looking to free and open source solutions
Therefore
1st - Refocusing RtF Foster innovation in accessibility and expand the market
for innovative vendors
Maximize the portion of accessibility that can be addressed through ordinary market mechanisms -- and minimize the portion that must be served through government or philanthropic intervention.
Maximize the accessibility of mainstream products.
Foster access by those that regular market forces cannot reach, even when facilitated
• Note: Even portions of this last aspect can be, and are already being, provided by commercial vendors working alone or in concert with others.
Therefore –cont’d
2nd - Created the NPII (and GPII concept)
Building a disability, technology and platform independent ‘inclusive infrastructure’
To grow all types of access
To spur innovation
To increase markets and lower costs
To address the problems of complexity
To create an internationally scalable base that facilitates the creation of affordable solutions for all
Imagine….
A person who is blind – able to use any computer
An elder who is confused by technology – where every computer looks like theirs – and it is simple with just a few controls and features they need:
(e.g. very simple mail, chat with grandkids including text, voice and video, picture sharing and ebooks)
Someone who is afraid of the Internet – who can use any computer and it only presents a safe, simple environment until they are ready
A person who is deaf, and whenever they click on show captions, and their aren’t any – the player finds them if they exist anywhere – or requests them if not.
Imagine….
A college student who must use different computers (different makes) in different labs for different courses – and their access follows them to all. And to any computer that is open in the labs.
A person who cannot afford either a computer or a connection – but who can use any public computer – or even a friends – and have basic access without costs just like their peers.
A person who must work in a cloud environment at work – no personal workstations – and who can show up for work on the first day and use it without modifications because their access is in the cloud and can even be behind the companies firewall.
How do we create a more inclusive society
How can we:
Make technology more 'people friendly' especially for older people and disadvantaged people?
‘Raise the floor’ to improve access to digital technologies? Empower older people and disabled people to define when
technology can (and can't) help?
The Requirements for Digital Inclusion
Knowledge of user requirements
Knowledge of digital inclusion solutions
Commitment to the use of these solutions
Discussion
What level of Digital Inclusion do we require?Where are we now?Where do we want to be?How do we achieve our aims?
Thank-you
For further information please contact:Gill Whitney and Suzette Keith
Email [email protected] [email protected] http://ksuzette.wordpress.com/Web Pages http://www.mdx.ac.uk/digitalinclusion
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/d4a