Accessibility SG Calls/2023

// Please note that this documentation is provided by the Accessibility SIG of the New York Chapter in support of of the Internet Society Accessibility Standing Group //

January 31 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Klaus Hoeckner, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Swaran Ravindra, Judith Hellerstein, Zakari Yama 

1. Introduction and welcome to Evelyn Loh
2. Discussion with Kyle Shulman re 2023 activities
   1. funding level
   2. funding aspects
   3. ISOC Community Week
   4. online training course
   5. ASG model of accessibility recording and transcription
   6. ISOC Accessibility Framework
   7. focus on main activity
3. Review 2022 Action Plan and report
4. Action Plan: https://a11ysig.org/wiki/Activity_plan

• Report

1. Discussion of 2023 activities
2. Planning ASG annual members meeting
3. AOB

• Discussion with Kyle Shulman re 2023 activities
  • 2023 Funding $15k (reduced from $30k)
  • possible extra for special purposes
  • ISOC Community Week - May -
    • Kyle keen for Henri Wohlfarth - infographics
  • online training course
    • when done to be handed over to Empowerment team = Esther Kioni + Joyce Dogniez
    • ASG Subcommittee needs to be part of the development process
    • F2F workshops - we'd like to continue - Kyle suggest working with Chapters for Grants from ISOC Foundation
  • Community Consultation
    • Transcript format etc well received
  • Framework
    • we need to have it finalized and approved by the board
  • focus on main activity
    • eye on the prize - but also webinars
• Vashkar - we need to follow up on last years successful efforts at APrIGF
  • ACM has detailed document on how to run accessible conferences. ACTION Vashkar
• Review 2022 ACtion Plan
  • Report
  • 5 Webinars
  • Training course development
  • Accessibility Framework - worked with ISOC Staff
• Bangla Desh Webinar
• ACTION - Clips of Bangla Desh of webinar
• ACTION - Brief follow up report?
• Discussion of 2023 activities
  • Swaran: Approached to by Australian funders to support school in Fiji. Needs assessment required.
    • Need to understand role that ASG can play in project.
  • Outreach to Chapters on basic Accessibility practices, experience and resource sharing
    • 1) Webinar 2) Survey 3) follow up with individual chapters.
  • 2 workshop proposals for IGF 2023 - VR in cooperation with A11yVR.
  • Community Week - topics?
    • 1) Chapters & Accessibility
    • 2) VR in accessibility
  • Dialogs with other orgs
    • G3ICT / DARE Academy
  • ACTION Outreach to ISOC Foundation on caption funding
• Planning ASG annual members meeting
  • Feb 8 05:00-6:15 UTC
  • Report - send out before and announce
  • Agenda - 3 BoTs will speak.
  • ACTION Joly - book captioning and WASLI international sign interpretation. And set up Zoom.
    • Leaders brief presents - Swaran, Joly, Vashkar. Klaus.

March 2 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie,  Vashkar Battarchearjee,  Swaran Ravindra, Zakari Yama, Klaus Hoeckner) (mp4, mp3, pdf)

Draft agenda
1. Apologies
2. Review of action items
3. Online training course
4. 2023 activities
- Draft calendar
- Member's meeting - set date and agenda
- Chapter's webinar
- Plan Chapter survey
5. Community Week
6. Action plan update plus template for activities
7. Web page
8. AOB

• Apologies from Judith
• Action Items
  • ISOC Foundation contacted regarding captioning and other issues (Sarah Armstrong)
  • Outstanding - clips from BD webinar
  • Web page - ACTION review
  • Joly - need to see what the page actually looks like
• Online training course
  • Submitted
  • Positive response from Kyle
  • US English
• 2023 activities
  • Draft calendar
  • Alumni Network Call - ACTION Joly intro Gunela to Nicolas Fiumarelli And Alejandra Prieto (Focus on regulation - Klaus and others)
  • Jennison Asuncion - ACTION intro Gunela - speak at members meeting - GAAD Foundation
  • Organization members - outreach unsuccessful so far - ACTION contact via staff?
  • 28 Mar - members meeting 11:00 UTC - Leader reports
  • 19 April 11:00 Consultation with Chapters / launch Chapter survey - Klaus will chair.
  • ACTION formulate survey
  • 3-4 May ISOC Community Week - Chapters or VR?
  • 18 May - GAAD
  • May North African SIG / IGF and Youth IGF ?
  • June - Zakari webinar - Accessibility guidelines / with North african chapters
  • August - PACIGF in PNG ?
  • 8 to 12 October 2023. - IGF in Japan ACTION Reach out to A11yVR
  • DCAD - complimenting not duplicating
• Community week - ACTION t.b.d.
• Action plan update plus template for activities
  • Lighter format based on draft calendar
  • Ongoing Projects are a separate item
  • Template - google doc? better to just submit to wiki via whatsapp.
  • ACTION Add 'publicity' section in wiki.
• Explore funding opportunities for participation at NRIs/IGF
  • Refer to module 4 on training module.
• Next meeting 13 April 11:00 UTC (07:00 EDT)

April 13 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Swaran Ravindra)    ,

1. Apologies - Judith Hellerstein, Klaus Hoeckner, Zakari Yama
2. Review of action items
3. BoT accessibility resolutions
4. Online training course
6. Chapters meeting
7. IGF planning
- Workshop proposals
- Travel funding options
8. Governance of ASG
- leadership
- membership
9. AOB

• Action Items
  • Web page - sent to kyle
  • Alumni Call - ACTION Joly intro Gunela
  • Jennison - ACTION Joly intro Gunela
  • Org members - done, no response - ACTION Gunela outreach to staff
  • ACTION formulate survey - Zakari. Gunela follow up
  • IGF in Japan Reach out to A11yVR - Done, progressing
  • Community week - ASG not doing
  • ACTION - Gunela & Joly - Wiki structure
• BoT accessibility resolutions
  • https://www.a11ysig.org/isoc-a11y/
  • Yet to be posted on website
  • Vashkar: hammer down on ISOC community including ISOC Foundation
    • In progress. Emails to Chapter leaders. Meeting with ISOC Foundation.
  • ACTION Gunela following up with Andrew
• BoT election
• Voting ends tomorrrow
  • ACTION - Shabbir tribute video
• Online training course
  • Next stage? Reconstituted Content Development Subcommittee, renamed to 'course Development'?
  • ACTION GUNELA - Needs to be expedited
  • Call in with Christopher Lee IIAP
• Chapters meeting
  • Speakers are being lined up
  • Bang the drum next week.
• IGF planning - 8-12 October Kyoto
  • Joly - Accessibility in VR. A11yVR + A11y Tokyo.
    • What are the policy aspects? Multi-stakeholder participation?
  • Vashkar idea - Public procurement, AI & E-Learning
  • Klaus idea - Public procurement, AI + EU Regulation + Hiring
  • APrIGF - 29-31 August - Australia
  • ACTION Swaran will help develop Awareness Training idea
• Travel funding
  • Third world people - IGF secretariat - Vashkar should be eligible
  • GAAD ?
  • Kyle mentioned 'Open Tech Fund'. ASG would need to apply via ISOC, or separately as individuals
• Governance of ASG
  • Election schedule
  • Leadership composition
  • Membership
    • Re-registration process to weed out non-A11y types?
    • Focus on certain aspects, to draw out members?
• Next meeting 11 May 07:00

April 19 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG + Chapters

• See April 19 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG + Chapters

April 24 2023 IGF proposals

(Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Swaran Ravindra, Klaus Hoeckner, Zakari Yama) 

(from previous call)
Joly - Accessibility in VR. A11yVR + A11y Tokyo - 
Vashkar idea - Public procurement, AI & E-Learning
Klaus idea - Public procurement, AI + EU Regulation + Hiring
APrIGF - 29-31 August - Australia
ACTION Swaran will help develop Awareness Training idea
So far suggested topics are:
1. AI - opportunity and risk for persons with disability 
2. Accessible e-learning
3. Africa, public procurement and innovation
4. The potential global influence of the European Accessibility Act
5. Accessibility in immersive environments -  possible tie-in with Joly's VR proposal? 
Session types: Workshop / Open Forum / Town Hall / Launches and Awards / Lightning Talks

• Apologies: Judith Hellerstein
• IMPORTANT What are the policy aspects? Multi-stakeholder participation?
• Hybrid aspect
• Up to 5 speakers, at least 3
• ACTION port today's barebones proposals to Google Docs for further comments
• 1. AI - opportunity and risk for persons with disability
• Theme: AI & Emerging Technologies - Workshop
  • Co-proposers: Klaus + Vashkar
  • K - Lead
  • EU papers on AI
  • Tensions between US, EU and Asia e.g. data regs
  • V - personal aspects from lived experience
  • More speakers 9Swaran)
• 2. Accessible e-learning
  • Theme: Global Digital Divides & Inclusion
  • Swaran - lead / Zakari co-proposer /
  • Invite - Christopher Lee G31CT (US)
  • Speaker - Vashkar
  • ISOC E-learning course dvelopment experince
• 3. Africa, public procurement and innovation
  • Klaus assist
  • Irene Mbari-Kirika ' inABLE' - DC & Kenya organizes conference - invite as lead
  • Speaker: Bernard
• 4. The potential global influence of the European Accessibility Act
  • Klaus
  • Launch or Lightning talk, perhaps?
• 5. Accessibility in immersive environments
  • Thomas Logan / Joly MacFie (A11ySIG) (assist from Klaus)
  • Barcelona lady (Klaus)
  • Speaker: A11yVR
  • Speaker: A11yTokyo
  • ACTION - set up call with Thomas
• 6. Explore synergies with DCAD
  • ACTION Gunela discuss with Judith & Shabbir.
• Travel funding
  • IGF Funding for some countries
  • GAAD
  • OpenTech.fund (group or individual TBD?)

• • Call 5 May 06:00 UTC Finalize Drafts.

April 24 2023 AprIGF proposals

(Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Swaran Ravindra)

• • Utilize main IGF topics, but with AP focus & different speakers
• 1. AI
  • Gunela explore
  • AI and employment equity
• 2. E-Learning
  • Swaran & Gunela lead / Vashkar assist
  • Tweak topic so as not to repeat
  • Moving forward on F2F workshops
• 3. Procurement
  • Change title to something more explanatory
  • Vashkar lead / Swaran assist
• 4. Financial inclusion
  • Shabbir lead? Vashkar assist
  • Speaker? Georgina /TetraTech (Swaran)
  • Speaker? Vashkar
• Other people
  • Manique Gunaratne - check with her

May 16 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Swaran Ravindra, Zakari Yama, Klaus Hoeckner) (mp4, mp3, txt)

1. Apologies
2. Review of action items
3. Online training course
4. IGF planning
- workshop proposals
- travel funding
5. Governance of ASG
- leadership
- membership
6. AOB
GAAD

1. Apologies

• Judith Hellerstein

2. Review of action item

• ACTION Alumni Call - Joly intro Gunela
• ACTION Jennison -Joly intro Gunela
• formulate survey - Zakari. Gunela follow up
  • Done. Waiting on review by IF
• ACTION' Gunela & Joly - Wiki structure
• Gunela following up with Andrew
  • Letter sent today
  • included link to updated Framework
• Shabbir tribute video - ACTION June deadline
• Online training course
  • Funding issue - see later
• IGFs - see later
  • issues with APrIGF form
  • AprIGF proposal submitted

3. Online training course

• Funding issue leading to frustration
• ISOC no longer ready to fund, suggests BYN via chapter
• Possibilities: NY, Australia, HK
  • AUS - has experience. Gunela
  • NY - vs A11ySIG - Joly & Judith, Coming out of pre-rejuv
  • HK - Charles Mok. Money transfer issues
• Nick Hyrka mentions that ISOC Bosnia Herzegovina has put in a large grant ACTION Gunela check for synergies
• **ACTION** Joly to become Asst Treasurer A11ySIG.
• Only one chapter can apply for funding for any single project
• ACTION Escalate to Andrew / BoT

4. IGF planning

• Deadline May 19
• 1. AI - opportunity and risk for persons with disability
  • Non-starter
  • M-Enabling Conference - Conflicting event
• 2. Accessible e-learning
  • Ready to submit
  • Vashkar is a speaker
  • ACTION submit
• 3. Africa, public procurement and innovation
  • Irene has hands full
• 4. The potential global influence of the European Accessibility Act
  • Non-starter
• 5. Accessibility in immersive environments
  • ACTION - pull rabbit out of hat
• travel funding
  • IGF Funding for some countries ACTION Vashkar needs help
  • GAAD ACTION Wait til after GAAD to talk to Jennison. Vashkar
  • OpenTech.fund (need group application)
  • Swaran has some funding. With Zakari, thinking of applying for IGF fellowship
  • APrIGF - Swaran needs airline tix

5. Governance of ASG

• • Need more PwDs on leadership team, and more people to share the load
  • Shabbir ?
  • Vidhya ?
  • Nirmita ?
  • Jaunita ?
  • Ana Isabel Paraguay https://www.linkedin.com/in/aibbp/
  • Neha Arora - India
  • Bernard Chiara - Kenya
  • Just as observers or possibly executive roles
  • Kyle suggests just officers - President, VP, CHaC Rep
  • Fine tune our membership - focus on accessibility
  • ACTION Dedicate next meeting to this topic
• 6. AOB
  • GAAD
    • BD may
    • BD One day training
    • BD International Roundtable 30 May.
    • ISOC Blog
• Gunela / Shabbir to speak at ICANN event in June on IDNs/UA
• Joly will got Dc to webcast NASIG

7. Next meeting - June 13 2023 23:00 UTC

Jun 28 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Zakari Yama, Judith Hellerstein)

1. Apologies
2. Review of action items
3. IGF & APrIGF workshops and travel
4. Governance
5. AOB
6. Next meeting

• Apologies
  • Klaus Hoeckner, Swaran Ravendra

• Action items
  • ACTION Alumni Call - Joly intro Gunela
  • ACTION Jennison -Joly intro Gunela
  • ACTION Gunela & Joly - Wiki structure
  • Shabbir commendation - ACTION June deadline
  • ISOC Bosnia Herzegovina has put in a large grant ACTION Gunela check for synergies
  • Only one chapter can apply for funding for any single project - ACTION Escalate to Andrew / BoT
  • Accessible e-learning - ACTION submit
  • Accessibility in immersive environments- ACTION - pull rabbit out of hat
  • travel funding-
    • IGF Funding for some countries ACTION Vashkar needs help
    • GAAD ACTION Wait til after GAAD to talk to Jennison.
    • Governance of ASG - ACTION Dedicate next meeting to this topic

• POSTPONED to Monday July 3 2023 12:00 UTC

July 2 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Zakari Yama, Judith Hellerstein,  Swaran Ravendra)

1. Apologies
2. Review of action items
3. IGF & APrIGF workshops and travel
4. Governance
5. AOB
6. Next meeting

• 1. Apologies
  • Klaus Hoeckner,
• 2. Action items
  • ACTION Alumni Call - Joly intro Gunela
    • ACTION Soon.
  • ACTION Jennison -Joly intro Gunela
    • ACTION Soon. Joe Devo will be doing the A11yNYC on July 28.
  • ACTION Gunela & Joly - Wiki structure
    • Done.
    • New page for training.
    • Separation of Group and Member activities.
    • ACTION Vashkar to check for pdf accessibility
  • Shabbir commendation - ACTION June deadline
    • ACTION Whereas type formal recognition of his service.
  • ISOC Bosnia Herzegovina has put in a large grant ACTION Gunela check for synergies
    • ACTION Soon.
  • Only one chapter can apply for funding for any single project - ACTION Escalate to Andrew / BoT
    • General one pager on training project drafted, of which this is a factor. ACTION comments by end of week, and submit to Charles and Sagarika.
  • Accessible e-learning - ACTION submit
    • APrIGF: Enabling an accessible e-learning experience for persons with disabilities in the Asia Pacific Region – challenges, opportunities and best practices (submitted but no response, as yet)
      • For IGF: Accessible e-learning experience for PWDs-Best Practices
  • Accessibility in immersive environments- ACTION - pull rabbit out of hat
    • Didn't happen
  • travel funding
    • IGF Funding for some countries ACTION Vashkar needs help
      • Application happening
    • GAAD ACTION Wait til after GAAD to talk to Jennison.
      • Done
    • Governance of ASG - ACTION Dedicate next meeting to this topic
      • Done

• 3. IGF & APrIGF workshops and travel
  • as above
  • DCAD proposal - A Gender-Youth-Accessibility approach to Digital Divide
  • DCAD proposal - DC Day, includes some ASG people.
  • AprIGF - The role for government purchasing of accessible Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • AprIGF - Point of View (India) - Disability and Digital Self-Determination: What’s the Missing Link?

• 4. Governance
• One on one conversations
• Paper https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xlwaOpSBv3ODwsWOcxjfAnvfHxTEm8bi/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104928052768300739552&rtpof=true&sd=true
  • Change name to Disability Standing Group
  • Leadership evenly split
  • ACTION Non-binding survey of membership.
    • including arguments pulled from transcript of this call.
  • ACTION Zakari, Swaran and Gunela to more clearly define roles of Action Plan Officers and define timelines.
  • ACTION Gunela to ask ISOC about landing page.
• Elections
  • Around November ?
  • ELection Committee - Gunela, Vashkar, Judith
  • ACTION Find Independent observers
  • ACTION Nomination form
  • Positions: Chair, Vice Chair + TBD
  • See paper for suggestions as to nominees.
  • ACTION Comments on inviting people to join expanded leadership team. Make google doc.
• Zakari and Swaran have submitted a Code of Conduct. ACTION Comments please by Monday

• Next meeting - July 26 2023 23:00 UTC
  • Subcommittees / activities

July 26 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Zakari Yama, Judith Hellerstein, Swaran Ravendra, Shamsuddeen Mohammed Lawal )

1. Apologies
2. Review of action items
3. Chapter survey
4. IGF & APrIGF workshops and travel
5. Planning ASG activities (refer to Governance document)
6. AOB
7. Next meeting

1. Apologies - Klaus Hoeckner
2. Review of action items

• Jennison -Joly intro Gunela - not done
• Joe Devon will be doing the A11yNYC on July 28 - says Shabbir under consideration
• Gunela & Joly - Wiki structure - done
• Vashkar to check for pdf accessibility - done- ACTION, Joly remove tag
• Shabbir commendation - ACTION Gunela
• ISOC Bosnia Herzegovina has put in a large grant ACTION Gunela check for synergies - Done, no response as yet
• General one pager on training project drafted - Done
• Accessible e-learning - done
• Change name to Disability Standing Group
  • ACTION Non-binding survey of membership - Joly / Zakari
• ACTION Zakari, Swaran and Gunela to more clearly define roles of Action Plan Officers and define timelines.
• Gunela to ask ISOC about landing page. Done. ACTION Joly find photos
• Elections ACTION Find Independent observers- Joly
  • ACTION Nomination form
  • Positions: Chair, Vice Chair + TBD
  • See Governance Doc for suggestions as to nominees.
• inviting people to join expanded leadership team.
  • Talked to Shabbir, Nirmita, Vidya, all willing.
  • ACTION Will be invited to forthcoming LT meetings.
  • ACTION All, Suggest more people other regions, disabilities by Aug 10
  • Code of Conduct. No comments so proceed.

3. Chapter survey

• ACTION joly create isoc-sg-survey@a11ysig.org email alias to Zakari / Joly
• ACTION Send survey to Chapters. List / CONNECT / Christine

4. IGF & APrIGF workshops and travel

• APrIGF
  • Vashkar participating online
  • Gunela attending
• IGF
  • e-learning submission successful
  • Zakari. Swaran, Vashkar applied for travel support
  • Judith will attend

5. Planning ASG activities

• Regular communication - Vashkar has volunteered. ACTION Vashkar & Joly to work on format.
  • Subcommittee see Governance Doc
  • Admin processes, note taking etc, tbd
  • ACTION - Subcommittees to have admin rights on ASG Zoom.
  • Funding - A11ySIG can channel external funding
  • A11ySIG has some available funds for Captioning etc.

6. Next meeting - special planning follow up next week - time tbd.

Aug 3 2023 ISOC Accessibility SG Leaders

SG Leaders meeting (Gunela Astbrink, Joly MacFie, Vashkar Battarchearjee, Zakari Yama, Judith Hellerstein, Klaus Hoeckner)
Draft agenda
1. Apologies
2. Planning
3. AOB
4. Next meeting

1. Apologies - Swaran Ravendra,
2. Planning

• Change name to Disability Standing Group - ties in with Gender and Youth SGs
  • Survey of members combined with Election survey?
    • Name change opinion,
    • explaining ASG’s sole focus on disability requesting feedback on members’ accessibility expertise
  • if willing to report disability expertise
  • ACTION Zakari + Joly to draft
• ASG Newsletter
  • Vashkar to write, Joly to reformat and submit to Kyle
  • Zakari - keep it short
  • The sooner the better
• Sub-Committees
  • Need to be clear on aims and outlooks
  • Need to self-manage
  • Access to Zoom - ACTION Judith + Joly to find best practice (including recording / Robot)
  • Note taking + report
  • Captioning (cost)
  • Term limit
  • Online training subcommittee
    • Already mentioned to Vidhya, Nirmita, Ginger
  • African Awareness Campaign Subcomittee
    • Zakari suggestion
    • Klaus to provide input
    • Ambitious idea
    • Organize publicity campaign not just to policy makers
    • External Funding ?
    • Find celebrities to participate
    • Judith - Work with existing orgs e.g. KictaNET in Kenya
    • Judith - have ISOC join TechSoup + Google for Non-profits + FB (free ads)
    • Klaus - difficult to make such a broad campaign in many countries. Countries differ.
    • Klaus - who will do this? Funding?
    • Klaus - start in one country, where we already have good contacts.
    • Vashkar - good idea. Happy to help.
    • Joly - focus on single idea like ISOC did for GAAD with Vashkar "Nothing About Us Without US"
    • ACTION - Klaus + Zakari + Judith to figure out is it a subcomittee or project
• Disability Resources
  • Joly - lists need maintenance and go out of date. Webinar -Blog posts about resources are better.
  • Klaus - a LinkedIn Page will work for resources and outreach
  • Joly happy to maintain
  • Gunela - wait for name change, or not
• Webinars ?
  • TBD. Talk via email.
• Next meeting - Executive Council / Leadership Team
  • 11:00 UTC Sep 6 2023