1. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Mobile Web Best Practice & WCAG 2.0 Can you spot the difference? Phil Archer W3C Mobile Web Initiative phila@w3.org

2. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 WCAG 2.0

3. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 MWBP

4. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 June 2005

5. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 MWBP Starting Point

6. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Similarities Availability of keyboard and mouse limited Navigation hard if you only see part of the page

7. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Navigation Issues

8. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Similarities Availability of keyboard and mouse limited Navigation hard if you only see part of the page Its hard to fill in forms and enter URIs Screen contrast can be poor Helper applications may not be available/may not help at all

9. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Similar Problems: Similar Solutions Non-text Objects with no text alternative –WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria: 1.1.1 Non-text content –MWBP 1.0 Best Practice: NON_TEXT_ALTERNATIVES and OBJECTS_OR_SCRIPT Even if device supports sound and video, downloading is expensive & may be switched off No one can hear anything in a nightclub

10. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Similar Problems: Similar Solutions CSS positioning, tables for layout etc –WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria: 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence –MWBP 1.0 Best Practice: TABLES_LAYOUT, TABLES_NESTED and TABLES_ALTERNATIVES Even where CSS positioning is supported, there may not be enough room on the screen

11. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Sounds Familiar? Accessibility helper applications render content in a format that may differ from the one that the content provider had in mind Web content is often adapted before delivery to mobile devices

12. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Content Adaptation

13. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Content Adaptation

14. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Content Adaptation

15. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Similar Problems: Similar Solutions Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust

16. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 WCAG 2.0 to MWBP

17. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 MWBP to WCAG 2.0

18. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 WCAG to MWBPMWBP to WCAG

19. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Some Mobile-Specific BPs Thematic Consistency One Web Caching External Resources Exploit Device Capabilities

20. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 The Business Case Web sites can more efficiently meet both goals when developers understand the significant overlap between making a Web site accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities.

21. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Mobile Web Browsing In 2007, 14% of American adults accessed the internet on a handheld on a typical day and 32% had ever used the internet on their handheld. In 2009, 23% accessed the internet on a handheld on a typical day and 38% had ever used the internet on their handheld.

22. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Traffic Growth Increase in Internet Traffic Reported by admob June 09

23. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Traffic Growth http://www.scribd.com/doc/24826531/Quantcast-Mobile-Report1

24. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Gartner Prediction Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the dominant web access device worldwide by 2013 Gartner Highlights, January 2010 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413

25. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Drivers Smartphones (notably iPhone) Social Networking Video Location-based services Flat-rate data tariffs

26. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 mobileOK

27. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 mobileOK

28. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 mobileOK

29. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Potential for universal access? Personal and customisable Portable One handed operation Location-aware Speaker and microphone built in

30. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 More? Likely to run updated version of our online training course Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best Practices later in 2010

31. WIPO-ITU Joint Accessibility Workshop, Geneva, 2 February, 2010 Links Mobile Web Best Practices http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ WAI/Mobile http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/ mobileOk Checker http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ Training http://www.w3.org/Mobile/training Twitter @pmobiweb Phil Archer http://www.w3.org/People/all#phila phila@w3.org