W9: Access and digital ability

The focus of the workshop will be on shaping and co-creating a barrier-free digital Europe by people with disabilities themselves, addressing the relevant policy, technology, innovation and cooperation perspectives.


16/06/2011 (10:00-13:30)

The focus of the workshop will be on shaping and co-creating a barrier-free digital Europe by people with disabilities themselves, addressing the relevant policy, technology, innovation and cooperation perspectives.

Particular attention will be paid to web accessibility for public and private online services.

Other aspects will be also addressed such as accessibility for audio-visual content, ICT-based mobility assistance, cloud-based and dynamically personalised interfaces.

AGENDA

08:00 – 10:00 Registration & Coffee

SESSION I : WEB ACCESSIBILITY

Chair: Velleman Eric, Bartimeus Accessibility

10:00 – 10:10 Put the user in the centre of the services

  • Corral Myrial, Ministry of Finance of Spain

10:10 – 10:20 Users supporting web accessibility

  • Bradbrook Gail, Fixtheweb

10:20 – 10:30 Service provision model for Inclusive e-Government

  • Echeverria Alejandro, CIP Diego Project

10:30 – 10:40 Accessible Web Authoring and Authoring for Web Accessibility

  • Abou-Zahra Shadi, W3C/WAI

10:40 – 11:00 Accessible on-line documents and editorial chain

  • Kaja Kiran, Adobe
  • Thurton James, Microsoft

11:00 – 11:30 Discussion

SESSION II: AUDIO-VISUAL AND OTHER E-ACCESSIBILITIES

Chair: Rodolfo Cattani, European Disability Forum

12:00 – 12:10 Accessibility of AV content and containers

  • Peter Looms, DTV4ALL project

12:10 – 12:20 DTV Industry dialogue with user organisations

  • Kamperman Frank, Digital Europe

12:20 – 12:30 Users complementing AV online content

  • Ahlgren Mia, The Swedish Disability Federation

12:30 – 12:40 Tbc

  • tbc

12:40 – 12:50 Users making accessibility-aware maps

  • Krauthausen Raúl, sozialhelden

12:50 – 13:00 Dynamically available AT and personalisation

  • Treviranus Jutta, University of Wisconsin-Madison

13:00 – 13:30 Discussion

Session organiser: François JUNIQUE (EC - DG Information Society & Media, Unit "ICT for Inclusion", Belgium)

Workshop hashtag

#daa11ability

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