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Notices

AccessForAll is a general accessibility strategy and the task for the DC community is to develop application profiles so AccessForAll can be realised across all domains in an interoperable way. The original AccessForAll work is the work of the ATRC at the University of Toronto, who have given free access to their work, and is supported by work in other fora in collaboration with the ATRC.

Access For All in Education

The ISO JTC1 AccessForAll work has been completed and hopefully will be published in 2007 for use in education. The IMS AccLIP and AccMD specifications are due to be revised for compatibility with the ISO standard. The AccessForAll approach to accessibility has been implemented in several places, including at the University of Toronto (TILE - http://www.barrierfree.ca/tile/) and in the learning management product of Angel Learning (http://www.angellearning.com/products/lms/accessibility/default.html)

Potential use of DC AccessForAll metadata

many DC creation tools are based on schema that can be replaced - the new schema will just 'slot in'
DC-based metadata applications, in general, will be able to understand AfA DC modules because they are DC Abstract Model compliant
standard DC users and those with application profiles for communities such as governments, education and even public broadcasting will be able to work with the accessibility modules
website developers will use AfA modules to customise their sites to the needs of individual users, not just classses of users,
website builders who have communities with special needs will use AfA modules to address their community's needs
etc.

Quick Links

AccessForAllFramework: explanation of the AccessForAll approach to resource accessibility
draft UserGuidelines
NewElementProposal: requirements table for the proposed DC.adaptability term
ApplicationProfileAbstractModel (terms and values in UML diagram)
ElementsVocabularies
draft AfAnamespace (available as http://purl.oclc.org/NET/AfA.rdf)
ImplementersNews - page for news and views
EducationAndOutreach resources for AccessForAll metadata
AccessForAllCitations meetings and other participatory events for wide consultation about the AccessForAll work
DC Accessibility Community homepage
Information about tools for creating and working with Dublin Core metadata
DC 2007 Conference Accessibility Session See DraftSessionAgenda2007

Outstanding Tasks

Technical

finalise terminology and abstract model
develop controlled vocabularies for terms
organise namespaces for terms
provide cross-walk from IMS/ISO to DC terms for education??

Practical

provide guidelines for Access For All implementation
develop some 'very good' examples

Draft of terminology (in SKOS) as SkosTerminology

BetaVersion of AfA accessibility profile

Recommendation by DCMI Usage Board work (in progress)

NewElementProposal: requirements table for the proposed DC.adaptability term
draft of an ApplicationProfileAbstractModel (terms and values in UML diagram)
AfA namespace
ElementsVocabularies for terms as text
ExamplesOfAccessForAll usage

Cancore work - developing guidelines for using Access For All (in IEEE LOM)

Cancore AccessForAll Metadata Guidelines for IEEE LOM: now available at http://www.cancore.ca/guidelines/drd (These are also available in French: http://www.cancore.ca/lignes_directrices/drn).
A list of authoring tools for making AccessForAll IEEE LOM metadata

WCAG 2.0 amendments for metadata - LN

WCAG-metadata-proposal-LN.html

Issues for Discussion on this Wiki

If you have looked at the DC Accessibility Community homepage http://dublincore.org/groups/access, you will have seen that there is a list of work items and some issues for discussion. This Wiki is here to solicit constructive comment on the issues.

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Archived pages

Discussion pages no longer active:

EuAccessibilityQualityMark
ExamplesOfAccessibilityTermUsage
AdaptabilityOrAccessibility
AccessibilityIssuesDiscussion
ResponseToUsageBoard: WG response to UB decision of 2005-06-13
CharterProposal: 2006 charter proposal for the DC-Accessibility working group
DC Conference Sessions - SessionReport DC2005. Also see notes online at <http://www.w3.org/2005/09/14-dc2005-minutes.html> (thanks to Charles McCathieNevile and David Weinkauf).
ISO CD1 EditingDiscussionItems
DiscussionOfFcd
CancoreAccessForAllMetadataGuidelines: CanCore Wiki discussion page
W3C WAI proposal for RolesAndAdaptability discussion page
discussion page for public comment on ISO FCD AccessForAllDrafts
draft of a possible DC AccessForAllApplicationProfile (to be used only as a working document)
a form that gives 'a sense of' the kind of questions that will be required for metadata creation - try http://www.ozewai.org/A4A/Draft-AP-6-3.html

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