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European Accessibility
Requirements For ICT
Procurement – The Status Of
Mandate 376
Christophe Strobbe
K.U.Leuven, Belgium
christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be

AEGIS Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 29-30 November 2011

Legislation and Standards in EU
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EU:
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Funding R&D, communications,
resolutions, action plans...
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Fragmented landscapes
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Member states
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ICT accessibility in legislation
↔ only general anti-discrimination laws
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National standards and/or variety of
certificates and methodologies

Background on EU Standardisation
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EU recognizes 3 standardisation bodies
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CEN (European Committee for
Standardization)
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CENELEC (European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization)
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ETSI (European Telecommunications
Standards Institute)


Background on EU Standardisation
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European standards (EN)
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must be adopted by national
standardisation bodies without
modification
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conflicting national standards must be
withdrawn
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EU can give mandate to European
standardisation bodies, e.g. M376


Other Standardisation Bodies
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Ideally, European standards are
consistent with international standards
and globally relevant
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CEN & ISO: Vienna Agreement
→ accept each other’s standards
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CENELEC & IEC: Dresden Agreement
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W3C: ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS submitter
since October 2010 (“take or leave”)
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WCAG 2.0 submitted October 2011

Mandate 376
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EC mandate to CEN, CENELEC & ETSI
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published December 2006
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“in support of European Accessibility
Requirements for Public Procurement
of Products and Services in the ICT
Domain”
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→ European standard
– national standards to be withdrawn
– support legislation


Mandate 376 Objectives
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“to harmonise and facilitate the public
procurement of accessible ICT products and
services by identifying a set of functional
European accessibility requirements for public
procurement of products and services in the ICT
domain, and”
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“to provide a mechanism through which the
public procurers have access to an electronic
toolkit, enabling them to make use of these
harmonised requirements in procurement
process.”


Mandate 376 Phases
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Phase 1: “Inventory of European and
international accessibility
requirements and
assessment of suitable testing and
conformity schemes”
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Phase 2: “Standardisation activities”


Mandate 376 Phase 1
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Results: 2 reports (2008)
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CEN WG: standards for conformity
assessment, existing conformity
assessments and schemes, …
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ETSI TF: ICT products and services
bought by public procurers, accessibility
standards, functional requirements (+
gaps), ...


Mandate 376 Phase 2
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Joint Working Group (JWG) of CEN,
CENELEC and ETSI to manage Phase 2
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Two teams:
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ETSI specialist task force (STF) focuses
on the accessibility requirements
themselves
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CEN/CENELEC team creates guidance
material and an online toolkit


Mandate 376 Phase 2
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Joint Working Group approves the TR
(Technical reports) and EN (European
Norm)
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EN also goes through formal adoption
process
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triple logo: CEN, CENELEC, ETSI


Participating in Phase 2
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Open consultation meetings are held on
interim and final drafts
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past meetings: 11 May, 28 Oct 2011
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Track http://www.mandate376.eu/
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No list or other channel to get notified
of new drafts or meetings
Secretariat advises you to contact
national standardisation body or ETSI to
join the Joint Working Group.

Time Plan
February 2011 Start of work.

March 2011 Table of Contents and Scope for the standard and Technical Reports

11 May 2011 Joint Open Workshop to involve the procurement community

June 2011 Draft of the standard and Technical Reports containing scope and table of contents

July 2011 Initial drafts of the standard and Technical Reports available for comment

August 2011 The call for tenders to develop the online toolkit (D5) is published

October 2011 Stable drafts of D1, the standard (EN), and Technical Reports D2 and D3

January 2012 Final drafts of D1, the standard (EN), and Technical Reports D2 and D3

March 2012 Final drafts to be approved by the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Joint Working Group

June 2012 Standard submitted for Public Enquiry. Technical Reports D2, D3 and D4 published

August 2012 Technical Report D6 published; draft version of the toolkit (D5) released

March-August 2013 Comment resolution and National Standards Organisation (NSO) voting

September 2013 D1, the standard (EN), is published

October 2013 The final version of the toolkit (D5) is released


Current Drafts (D1)
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Draft ETSI EN 301 549
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content copied from TR 102 612 (from
Phase 1); some new content
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tries to maximise alignment with
Section 508 refresh
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WCAG 2.0 will be added as a normative
appendix


Current Drafts (D2)
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Draft ETSI TR 101 550
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initial draft that lists the documents
used in the creation of EN 301 549
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“provides additional explanation to
assist users of the EN with clarifications
and supporting information about
measurement methods, particularly
where no globally agreed test presently
exists”


Current Drafts (D3, D4)
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Draft ETSI TR 101 551
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Outline of report about award criteria
for ICT products and services
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Discusses a few European directives
that are relevant to procurement
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D4:
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Initial draft
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Guidance on conformity assessment
systems or schemes

Current Drafts (D5, D6)
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D5 (→ toolkit)
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discusses existing toolkits, describes the
scope of the toolkit, audience and
requirements gathering for the toolkit,
and content and structure of the toolkit.
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D6
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contains additional guidance that will be
included into the toolkit, for example,
introductory notes on accessiblity


What’s Next
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Next drafts scheduled January 2012
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Check Mandate 376 website:
http://www.mandate376.eu/
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Submit comments...


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