Following is a lightening presentation by Dennis Lembree, creator of Accessible Twitter, at CSUN 2010 Tweetup in San Diego, California. Accessible Twitter is an alternative to the Twitter.com website. It is designed to be easier to use and is optimized for disabled users. The web site application is now in Beta stage.
Accessibility features in Microsoft Office 2010
The European Business Conference on Inclusive Design – Innovation for All which takes place on 20-21 May 2010 in Oslo, Norway is a premier forum for Inclusive Design, focusing on the business value of the approach with international speakers from business, design and policy. Workshops lead by Inclusive Design experts will give participants an informative and interactive experience. An exhibition will showcase new and recent case studies from industry. The conference will have relevance to anyone interested in creating, growing and implementing an Inclusive Design approach.
The conference will be opened by HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway. Norwegian government ministers will also support proceedings.
International companies and organisations will be present at the forum offering a unique two day experience.
For more information and to access the registration form.
Seville, Spain, 6-9 October 2010
The AEGIS project would like to kindly invite you to the 2nd Pan-European Workshop/User Forum and the 1st International AEGIS Conference entitled “Access for All in the desktop, web and mobile field: an end-user and developer perspective” which will take place in Seville, Spain on 6 and 7-8 October 2010 respectively. For the dedicated developers, a free developer camp (clinic) will take place on the 9th of October 2010. All events are organised by the AEGIS IP initiative (Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards – www.aegis-project.eu), partially funded under FP7 (Theme: ICT‐2007.7.1; ICT & Ageing).
With an estimated total population of 501 million (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu, 1 January 2010), an estimated 45 million people in Europe have a LSHPD (long-standing health problem or disability). A mere 20-30% are believed to use Assistive Technology (AT), but concrete figures do not exist. In fact, most people with disabilities are not even aware of what AT exists. This workshop and conference aims to help spread the word on the existence of AT, and especially on technology that is freely available.
The Workshop/User Forum aims to bring together end-users and experts in the field of assistive technologies, from both the OSS community as well as the proprietary one, that focus on the accessibility of desktop, web and mobile applications. During the workshop the project will present the tools developed so far, and will stimulate discussions between both end-users and application developers vis-à-vis the project’s outcomes so far. The outcomes will be taken into account by the Consortium during the further course of the project. Participation to the workshop will be free of charge.
The conference aims to gather presenters that address both the end-users as well as the developers’ perspective in a number of areas (see topics below). Interactive demos of Assistive Technology ICT, in the Rich Internet Applications, Desktop Applications and Mobile Applications areas as well as developers’ tools that embed accessibility plug-ins will also be demonstrated in a separate exhibition area.
The participation fee will be €150 for researchers, €50 for students and people with disabilities and free for personal assistants.
In addition, an exhibition space will be provided as well which will be open throughout the conference duration. The fee for exhibitors will be € 300.
The registration form for each of the aforementioned events will be available shortly via the project’s website (www.aegis-project.eu).
We kindly invite you and your colleagues to submit papers in the following categories:
- Scientific papers
- Technical papers
Conference topics (non-exhaustive list):
- Accessible desktop applications (AT, developer tools and accessible applications)
- Accessible mobile applications (AT, developer tools and accessible applications)
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (AT, developer tools and accessible applications)
- Accessibility and Standardisation (e.g. ISO, eInclusion, Policies, Legislation)
- Accessibility and Usability (e.g. Design for All)
- Accessibility research (e.g. Assistive technology usage by end-users and their satisfaction, innovative AT training via accessible e-learning)
Important dates:
- Call for papers: 31st March 2010 (to be published on-line at www.aegis-project.eu)
- Abstracts submission deadline: 30th April 2010
- Notification of abstracts acceptance: 15th May 2010
- Paper submission deadline: 15th June 2010
- Notification of acceptance and outcome of review process: 30th June 2010
- Final camera ready papers: 15th August 2010
- Submission of external exhibitions by 31st August 2010
- Registration by 30th September 2010
Abstracts submission:
Abstracts submitted in the context of one of the above topics should not exceed 500 words. The title, authors and their contact and affiliation details (authors’ email address, telephone and fax number and affiliation name and address) as well as keywords (up to five) should be included.
Under the title of your abstract, please quote the relevant conference topic. We would strongly recommend you to propose more than one conference topics, if applicable, quoting them in priority order.
Abstracts should be submitted to info@aegis-project.eu by 30th April 2010.
Download the complete AEGIS 1st International Conference and 2nd User forum and Workshop Invitation (PDF).
