Objectives:
- Share information on national, regional and international standardization activities in accessibility and usability for information and communication technology (ICT)
- Identify international and regional accessibility and usability standardization activities as a basis for the collaboration of the APT countries
- Share information on issues related to affordability and literacy of the ICT services
- Support the APT national standardization activities in accessibility and usability
- Transfer the APT perspectives on accessibility and usability to other regions and internationally
- Input the accessibility and usability features into other ASTAP Expert Groups
- The study and encouragement of involvement of end-users in development of standards.
Outputs/Deliverables:
- Identification of the scope of the standardization activities using concrete projects such as publishing reports of mobile application accessibility and software accessibility for the APT countries
- Encouragement of the APT countries to make efforts on standardization activities for accessibility and usability of ICT devices, systems and services
- Development of reports, guidelines, handbooks and recommendations of the ASTAP standards
- Collaboration with international, regional, and de facto standardization organizations and consortiums such as ITU, ISO/IEC JTC1, W3C, etc. by developing liaison statements and contributions
- Cooperation with other Expert Groups of ASTAP in order to expand application areas of EG AU and promote accessibility of the outputs of other EG's.
Chair:
Dr. Jee-In Kim
Professor, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea
Vice-Chair:
Ms. Wantanee Phantachat
Advisor
Assistive Technology and Medical Devices Research Center (A-MED),
National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)