Objectives:

• Share information on national, regional and international standardization activities in accessibility and usability for information and communication technology (ICT)
• Identify international and regional accessibility and usability standardization activities as a basis for the collaboration of the APT countries
• Share information on issues related to affordability and literacy of the ICT services
• Support the APT national standardization activities in accessibility and usability
• Transfer the APT perspectives on accessibility and usability to other regions and internationally
• Input the accessibility and usability features into other ASTAP Expert Groups
• The study and encouragement of involvement of end-users in development of standards.

Outputs/Deliverables:

• Identification of the scope of the standardization activities using concrete projects such as publishing reports of mobile application accessibility and software accessibility for the APT countries
• Encouragement of the APT countries to make efforts on standardization activities for accessibility and usability of ICT devices, systems and services
• Development of reports, guidelines, handbooks and recommendations of the ASTAP standards
• Collaboration with international, regional, and de facto standardization organizations and consortiums such as ITU, ISO/IEC JTC1, W3C, etc. by developing liaison statements and contributions
• Cooperation with other Expert Groups of ASTAP in order to expand application areas of EG AU and promote accessibility of the outputs of other EG's.    

Chair:
Dr. Jee-In Kim
Professor, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea

Vice-Chair:
Ms. Wantanee Phantachat 
Advisor
Assistive Technology and Medical Devices Research Center (A-MED),
National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)