For your information, please be so kind to find an email sent by one of our members in Australia regarding accessibility, including accessibility of the new myICANN.org Web site. I believe there is a deeper implication to make ICANN as well as its bottom-up policy processes and its communication strategy more accessible to everyone. Comments welcome! Kind regards, Olivier -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ALAC and accessibility for people with disability Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:12:59 +1100 From: Gunela Astbrink <g.astbrink@*.au> To: ocl@gih.com CC: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr@*.com>, Save Vocea <save.vocea@*.org> Dear Olivier, Unfortunately, I won't be at the Toronto ICANN meeting. I remember we have had discussions about accessibility for people with disability in the past. The new myICANN website has prompted me to contact you. The ICANN websites have accessibility errors including the brand new myICANN. That looks like a great site and is intended for the general public. Thus, people with disability who comprise one billion people in the world should have adequate access. I was invited to participate in the consultation for a new At-Large website and hope that it will incorporate accessibility based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) right from the start. http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php I am very concerned that accessibility should be considered in new policy or process. ISOC are about to launch a policy paper on Internet accessibility for people with disability (drafted by me). I'd like to see ICANN also taking this issue on in a systematic way. For example, mechanisms could be considered on how to encourage new gTLDs to consider accessibility. Happy to discuss further. Regards, Gunela -- Gunela Astbrink GSA Information Consultants PO Box 600 Ballina NSW 2478 Australia Mobile: +61 417 715738 Email: g.astbrink@gsa.com.au