European Internet Accessibility Observatory EIAO Deployment & collecting public Web Site URLs Mikael Snaprud Brussels 2006-12-18 EIAO project is co-founded by the European Commission under the IST contract 2003-004526-STREP www.eiao.net
EIAO partners Type Name Country UNIV Agder University College (Co-ordinating partner) Norway UNIV Aalborg University Denmark UNIV Technical University of Warsaw Poland UNIV University of Tromso, (until December 2005) Norway UNIV Manchester Metropolitan University UK SME Intermedium AS (until December 2006) Norway SME FBL Italy SME Vista Utredning AS Norway SME FTB of Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein Germany SME Nettkroken AS Norway REF Gnome foundation USA REF Directorate for health and social affairs Norway REF European Disability Forum Europe REF Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority Norway REF Norge.no Norway CLU Cluster with projects BenToWeb and Support EAM Europe 2 2
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Acccess to online content Required to participate in Information society WCAG Guidelines from W3C internationally agreed Accessibility Benchmarking a tool to create awareness and take action Access with Similar needs Foto: Sosial og Helsedirektoratet/ Einar Aslaksen First barrier bus departure 4 4
Observatory main components List of public Web sites Software for benchmarking Reports on Rapporter Status & Endring Changes Internet Robot Crawler Web Accessibility Metrics Data- varehus Warehouse First public release of 10.000 sites planned for April 2007 Based on Open Source and Open Standards, WCAG/W3C 5 5
EIAO status Speed improved (factor 200 since May) : estimated capacity for 10.000 sites in 11 days 22 tests from UWEM0.5 + Imergo Web servce interface January 2007 beta release and user tests 32 UWEM 1.0 tests, covering 19 WCAG 1.0 checkpoints BenToWeb to provide three tests GUI for beta test Some meta data such as pdf (mime type), language etc. April 2007 public release: 10.000 sites GUI and UWEM 1.0 tests quality assured 6 6
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Main challenges ahead Verification of all implemented tests Verification of sampling and aggregation Finalize EIAO User interface http://eiao2.eiao.net:8080/eiaogui2-alpha Continuous collection and maintenance of URLs with automatic categorisation Create sustainable organisation for Observatory 15 15
Collection of URLs Several strategies are pursued DMOZ.org National directories Other existing directories Lists used in other surveys Crawl online directories Combine existing lists So far best result for EIAO purpose from national directories in some countries DMOZ.org promising for wider community effort NUTS and NACE categorisation remains 16 16
URL collection status Country Organisation Contact person URL No of URLs DMOZ.org No of URLS national source Austria BMF Josef Malkolm bmf.gv.at 52 Belgium Directory.fgov.be/home/to 144 Cyprus 32 Czech Republic 111 Denmark Best på nettet Karen Monies itst.dk 101 340 national, 300 local Estonia 73 Pirkko Finland Finland.fi Romakkaniemi Suomi.fi 85 280 national France Braille Net Dominique Burger Not available 69 Germany Germany Federal level Bund.de 114 Greece 92 Hungary 58 Iceland http://eng.samgonguradu 49 Ireland 125 Italy Italia.gov.it... 72 Latvia Liechtenstin 50 15 Lithuania 45 Luxembourg 16 Malta 45 Norway Norge.no Knut Moen Norge.no 89 4096 national and local Poland Polish Ministry of Anna Bramska mswia.gov.pl 81 Portugal 19 Slovakia 45 Slovenia 26 Spain 28 Sweden Sweden.se Clas Thoren Sverige.se 129 1053 national and local Switzerland 65 The Netherlands Eric Velleman www.overheid.nl/ 119 UK Cabinet Office Direct.gov.uk 1569 Sum 3518 6069 Sufficient amount to illustrate spectrum and outline solutions Further collection inkluded 17 in GUI survey (Jan 07) 17
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EIAO exploitation T4P 2007, Technology for Participation conference 25. June 2007, Kristiansand, Norway Workshop to egovernment accessibility interest group Follow-up projects: T4P elearning Master specialisation : partly funded egir egovernment Indicator Research : pilot funded OPLEARN Open Platform for Creating and Sharing Learning Materials : pilot funded 19 19
EIAO continuation Survey and test with policy makers T4P woroshop 20 Update frequency Service coverage Redundant fields Language versions etc 20