Workshop H: Standards for the next generation of accessibility
Chair: Jonathan Hassell, Head of Audience Experience & Usability, BBC Future Media & Technology; and Chair of IST/45, BSI Technical Committee for BS8878 on Web Accessibility

While the WCAG 2.0 guidelines are exceptionally useful, they don't tell site owners the process behind how they should ensure their web products are accessible. Site owners urgently need an end-to-end guide to help them to ensure their products consider the needs of disabled and elderly people at all stages of the web production process, from initial requirements gathering, through selection of technologies and platforms, testing, launch and maintenance. And they need this guide to talk about real-world issues, experienced by real users, wanting to use real up-to-date web 2.0 products.

In this workshop the lead author of the new British Web Accessibility Standards - BS8878 - will talk about how these new standards will provide this guide, touching on current hot issues like: the Equality Bill, accessibility for mobile and IPTV products, user-personalised approaches to accessibility as well as 'standards-based' ones, how to procure an accessible web products, and how to deal with feedback on accessibility from your product's users.