"reliability" of IoT/WoT

Hi all,

In December I had the honor of being on a panel with Vint Cerf where we 
discussed IoT accessibility. He raised the aspect of "reliability" for 
people with disabilities. That is, people with disabilities may need to 
depend to a higher degree on IoT systems and applications, so that the 
failure of these would potentially result in higher disadvantaging of 
people with disabilities. I think "reliability" should be added to our 
list of accessibility concerns for WoT (besides interoperability and 
security etc).

Here is a summary of this panel discussion:
  - 
https://dig.watch/sessions/internet-things-and-accessibility-people-disability-ws145

Best,
   Shadi

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Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Received on Friday, 5 January 2018 11:43:29 UTC