<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5d9d6240-7fff-67df-0f5b-17762dc47f6c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear NCUC members,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Good afternoon. I hope your week is going well.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Here is  my summary of our discussion with the CEO yesterday</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">On the question of ICANN cutting budgets and having financial constraints, how will it affect noncommercial stakeholders?</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The CEO responded that the cuts were necessary because of falling revenues, considering the domain name market is not performing that well, and the increased cost of hosting ICANN meetings (due to inflation AND unexpected increases in costs related to many of ICANN's activities). There is currently no effect or adjustment to the funding support for any of the stakeholder communities (staff is cutting expenses on other fields), and the CEO said the ICANN team is aware of the need to support our community in participating in the multistakeholder engagement continuously. However, if there ever comes a point that requires adjusting funding support, it may affect noncommercials. In that case, there will be a consultation with the noncommercial community on the best way to proceed.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">On the question of making the platform friendly for people with different abilities,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The CEO described the effort that the ICANN team has put into making ICANN's content accessible to all by sharing the work they did with the 3WSC group, and she is requesting members of the community to review and send feedback as the team is out to ensure that all ICANN's content is available to all.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">FEEDBACK IS REQUESTED</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In February 2024, ICANN published an update on enhancing accessibility to ICANN content. <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/enhancing-accessibility-on-the-information-transparency-platform-26-02-2024-en">https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/enhancing-accessibility-on-the-information-transparency-platform-26-02-2024-en</a>  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Also, the ICANN team will provide updates on the project's recent progress.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Regarding the ICANN learning broken content or inaccessible materials on some devices or browsers, the CEO  seeks more details from community members to help her team troubleshoot. She was not aware of the issue that some content does not function well on every kind of device, and asked to provide more details about it and specify what are these contents and on what computers/configurations they are not working.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">These are my personal summary, and I hope you find them useful in response to your questions.</p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Kind regards,</p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Benjamin </p><br><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 4:07 PM Hago Dafalla <<a href="mailto:dafalla@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dafalla@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312293283">Dear Benjamin</div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312378565"><br></div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312295685">  </div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312311824">I would like to propose the following proposal for the upcoming meeting with ICANN's Interim Executive Director:</div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312384741">There are difficulties in dealing with the ICANN page and its electronic platforms and learning from them, and some applications do not open or work on some computers, which deprives people who do not have these applications or are not available on their devices.</div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yiv4494891179yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728305230124">Therefore, I suggest that ICANN pages and platforms be formulated and designed as e-learning pages, that is, subject to well-known e-learning page design standards. To ensure that its websites, platforms and materials, including ICANN Learn, are fully accessible to all people, including people with disabilities?</div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312404909"><br></div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312405111">Thanks</div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312411440"><br></div><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198yMail_cursorElementTracker_1728312411589">Dr. Hago Dafalla</div><br><div id="m_7497348139385432844m_1256601006970296099m_7291125733253433198ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 20px"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(109,0,246)"> <div>On الأحد, أكتوبر ٦, ٢٠٢٤ at ١٢:١٠ ص, Benjamin Akinmoyeje</div><div><<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0px 0px 20px;margin:10px 0px 0px;border-left:1px solid rgb(109,0,246)"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">Ncuc-discuss mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss</a><br clear="none"> </div> </blockquote></blockquote></div>
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