Authors

Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo

• Member of the drafting Working Groups for WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0
• Invited Expert in W3C-WAI Education and Outreach Working Group
• Convenor of AENOR CTN 139/SC 8/GT 3. Member of CTN 133/GT 3
• Accessibility Expert of the aDeNu Group of the UNED's Artificial Intelligence Department.
• Patron and General Director of the Sidar Foundation - Universal Access

Loïc Martínez Normand

• Expert in ISO TC 159/SC 4/WG 5 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35/WG 6
• Chairman of AENOR CTN 139/SC 8
• Member of AENOR CTN 153/SC 5 and CTN 133/GT 3
• Assitant Proffesor and Researcher at the Computer Science School of the Technical University of Madrid
• President of the Sidar Foundation - Universal Access

Political and social context

United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN, 2006). It is applicable in:

• shopping,
• public administration services,
• tax payment,
• access to media,
• education,
• and so on.

Web content accessibility

• W3C
• WAI
  • WCAG 1.0 (May 1999)
  • WCAG 2.0 (December, 2008)

Internationalization Standars

• ISO Technical Committee 37: terminology and other language and content resources
• Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)
• OASIS
• W3C Internationalization Activity

Accessibility ≠ Disability

Accessibility applies to:

• older people
• people with low literacy or not fluent in the language
• people with low bandwidth connections or using older technologies
• new and infrequent users
• ... and persons with disabilities

Key principle of web accessibility

Designing web sites and software that are flexible enough to meet different user needs, preferences, and situations.

The Sidar Foundation

• Promote accessibility to and from the Spanish-speaking world
• Provide training in accessibility to public and private sector
• Research into new developments and tools for accessibility
• Translate and ensure the quality of translations into our languages

Key WCAG 2.0 guidelines for localization (1)

Key WCAG 2.0 guidelines for localization (2)

Perceivable. Essential success criteria

• Localize both the original content and the alternatives to that content! (1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.8, 1.2.9)
• For accessible time-based media, localize both captions and audio descriptions (1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.7)
• The localization should also cover content represented in sign language (1.2.6)
• Special attention should be paid to correctly localizing reading sequences, which are not the same in all languages (1.3.2)
• If dubbed speech is added, it has to be included with sufficient difference with background audio (1.4.7)

Operable. Essential success criteria

• The "skip to content" link should be located and localized accordingly to the local uses (2.4.1)
• The localization of the page should pay special attention to the page title (2.4.2)
• Focus order is important if the destination language has a different reading order and/or direction (2.4.3)
• Provide adequate information about links purpose (2.4.4, 2.4.9)
• Pay special attention to descriptions contained in headings, labels and sections (2.4.6, 2.4.10)

Understable. Essential success criteria

• Correctly indicate both the language of the page and the language of parts (3.1.1, 3.1.2)
• Unusual words, idioms and jargon should be defined. Localization should maintaint the definitions and add some more if required (3.1.3)
• Abbreviations should include mechanisms for identifying their expanded form. Localization should maintain expansions and add some more if required (3.1.4)
• Maintain the reading level of the original content and localize the alternative simpler version, if any (3.1.5)
• Identify specific pronunciation of words where meaning of the words, in context, is ambiguous without knowing the pronunciation (3.1.6)
• When localizing forms, special attention should be paid to making the localized labels, instructions and help useful for the intended users (3.3.2, 3.3.5)
• carefully localize error management-related content, taking into account the usual terminology and formatting of the target language and region (3.3.1, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.3.6)

Robust. Essential success criteria

• Localizators must validate the syntax of the resulting content according to the specification of the markup language used (4.1.1)

A11y vs. I18n Quicktips

Accessibility is right not a privilege!

William Loughborugh
In memorian

Thank you for your attention!

Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
emmanuelle@sidar.org

Loïc Martínez Normand
loic@sidar.org