SV: [governance] Why standards from ISO are not freely available?

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear Atanu Garai 

This is a very good question! I also wonder why ISO do not take into account all proposals coming from the disability movement asking for accessible standards so as all technology can be used by ALL persons without restrictions and complications! I have in my mind,  so many examples on what could be done by standardisations so as special adjustments or adaptations would not be needed. There are also numerous documents written by the disability movement on "design  for all" or Universal Design". 

It is because this ignorance persons with disabilities are still marginalised and excluded - but we do exist! 

Yours
Kicki 

Kicki Nordström
Synskadades Riksförbund (SRF) 
World Blind Union (WBU)
122 88 Enskede
Sweden
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Skickat: den 8 augusti 2008 16:42
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Ämne: [governance] Why standards from ISO are not freely available?

The International Organization for Standardization
(http://www.iso.org/) is a major standards development and maintenance body for the Internet, besides other organization. It has at least published 43 very important standards related to the Internet and information technology (http://tinyurl.com/6ebtuc). It is imperative that members of the public have access to those standards so that those standards can be applied by all and everybody concerned. On the other hand, these standards are developed by stakeholders across the globe in a cooperative way, most notably with active participation and contribution from the national standards organizations which are part of the national governments and funded by taxes. According to ISO, the organization has 157 national standards bodies and 60% of its income comes from membership fees (http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_in_figures.htm). Despite that one may wonder, why these standards are not available openly accessible for all internet users and making these standards available openly accessible can further augment development of standardised public systems.

Atanu Garai
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