Re: schema course extend: accessibility

On 19/08/2016 02:30, Wes Turner wrote:
> It would be great to be able to include accessibility markup this in 
> an initial guide to implementing Course markup.
>
Agreed.

You should add Liddy Nevile to your people, she has worked on 
accessibility of learning resources all the way from IMS Access for All 
through to ISO/IEC 24751, also Madeleine Rothberg who has worked on 
schema.org -related accessibility. (chaals@yandex seems to be the 
schema.org expert closely involved).

I don't know where are the best forums for engaging with them and others 
with similar interest, but I see you also posting at 
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254#issuecomment-240900602 
which seems one reasonable place. I'll keep and eye on that for 
developments.

Phil

> People:
>
> - Domain experts
>   - Which organizations have an expert to help out with this?
> - Schema.org experts
>   - @danbri
>   - @rjw
> - Schema.org amateurs
>   - @westurner
>   -
> - Data publishers
>   -
> - Data consumers
>   - Data presenters: e.g. search engines, aggregator sites
>
> User stories:
>
> - Data publishers can specify available accessibilityPhysicalFeatures 
> (at least) for Places and Events (**URLs**)
> - Data presenters can display (themed) icons for available services 
> (**URLs**)
> - Data consumers can locate Place and Events with specific 
> AccessibilityPhysicalFeatures (**URLs**)
>
> Technical approach:
>
> - Enumeration > AccessibilityPhysicalFeature
> - List of Enumeration URLs for known "AccessibilityPhysicalFeatures"
>   - @accessibilityExperts: catalog known accessibility features
>   - @schemaorgExperts: should these be Enumerations in schema.org 
> <http://schema.org> core or listed in a wiki page?
> - Property: "accessibilityPhysicalFeature"? d: {Place,Event}
>   - @schemaorgExperts: Relation to amenityFeature r: 
> LocationFeatureSpecification
>
> ... I'll copy this to this issue:
>
> "Accessibility of places"
> https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:34 PM, DCMI <sasutton@dublincore.net 
> <mailto:sasutton@dublincore.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm happy to leave accessibility to the people who understand it best.
>
>     Stuart
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     > On Aug 18, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk
>     <mailto:phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hello again, I propose that we do not address accessibility
>     requirements as part of the course extension (we can use
>     properties inherited from more general accessibility work).
>     >
>     >
>     > We have  use cases relating to accessibility at
>     https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/Outline_use_cases
>     <https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/Outline_use_cases>
>     >
>     > namely that it should be possible to find course where the
>     searcher is concerned about physical and cognitive accessibility
>     features, controls, API, hazards.
>     >
>     > This leads to requirements around identifyingaccessibility
>     features, controls, API, hazards of resources (i.e. CreativeWorks)
>     used in delivering the course, in any Events that are part of the
>     course and at any locations where the events are held.
>     >
>     > There are other people with specialist knowledge for
>     accessibility who have dealt with the accessibility of
>     CreativeWorks (so we can just apply that to Course and to any
>     materials used in the course), and there is an open issue relating
>     to accessibility of Places (and hence events at those places),
>     https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254
>     <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254>
>     >
>     > So, are we happy to leave accessibility to the accessibility
>     people and use the outputs of their work for Course and
>     CourseInstance as they are inherited from CreativeWork, Event etc.?
>     >
>     > Phil
>     >
>     >
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