Nordic Accessibility Community Group: “EN 301 549 vs WCAG” | April
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Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes), Nadia Törnroos, Christer Janzon, Sander Nijsingh, Anna-Liisa Mattila, Robin Liendeborg, Robin Whittleton, Torbjörn Lahrin.
Meeting notes
(IAAP) Certifications in companies, is it a must?
University in Finland, not offering it to employees but requiring for services they buy. Most of participants says it is offered but not required. For procurements we see that companies are asking for it. In the future it will most likely be a hard requirement with certification. There’s advantages since it is an objective way to compare though it can still be uncertainty of level of knowledge. Would be great with alternative to IAAP that is more focused on Europe and the EAA.
Procurements discussion
It would be good to have a certification for the ones doing procurements. Putting too many demands can lead to no product available to buy. Maybe a partial support/ support with roadmap of fixes could be an alternative to ensure improvements are made. They do this in Netherlands. It will take a long time to get products accessible for public procurements.
Accessibility statement
Demo of the accessibility statement template and the article with a deep dive about accessibility statement.
Feedback is that this i valuable. Hopefully this becomes a standard that monitoring agencies pick up. Mention that Finland requires a statement.
When someone has implemented with the template, it would be nice to see a real example using the template.
Monitoring agencies and reporting
Talk about the table with monitoring agencies. Please help out adding content into it.
It is still very vague how to document and report errors. Clarification of that if you sell to EU market you need to conform with the EAA. Placing on the market defintion.
Next meeting
Scheduled for May 7th, 13:00 – 13:50 CEST.