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From: Jennison Asuncion
Date: Thu, May 03 2007 7:10PM
Subject: web 2.0 accessibility conference in Banff
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Hello,
Just curious whether anyone else here will be attending the upcoming
conference on web 2.0 and accessibility in Banff next week www.w4a.info
Jennison
Jennison Asuncion
Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network
http://www.adaptech.org
From: Tim Beadle
Date: Fri, May 04 2007 1:30AM
Subject: Re: web 2.0 accessibility conference in Banff
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On 04/05/07, Jennison Asuncion < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Just curious whether anyone else here will be attending the upcoming
> conference on web 2.0 and accessibility in Banff next week www.w4a.info
I won't be, but someone at w4a needs to hire someone who can (a) write
and (b) check the spelling of the names of web sites it wishes to
criticise:
"Indeed, using sites which such as: Flicker, YouTube, MySpace, Google
Maps, and Google Portal will rapidly become `off-limits' to disabled
users."
Tim
From: Sarah Horton
Date: Fri, May 04 2007 6:50AM
Subject: Re: web 2.0 accessibility conference in Banff
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On May 3, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Jennison Asuncion wrote:
> Just curious whether anyone else here will be attending the upcoming
> conference on web 2.0 and accessibility in Banff next week
I'll be there. Anyone else?
Sarah
Sarah Horton
Academic Computing
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH USA 03755
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www.dartmouth.edu/~shorton
From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mon, May 14 2007 8:50PM
Subject: Web 2.0 Accessibility Workshop at University of Illinois on June 12-13
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If you are working on Web 2.0 applications this workshop will help you understand how to start making these applications more accessible to people with disabilities using the new W3C ARIA specifications. ARIA has been implemented in Firefox and screen reader technologies.
TITLE: Web 2.0 Accessibility Workshop using W3C ARIA Specifications
Registration Form for Web 2.0 Accessibility Workshop
http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/icitaregistration
Cost: $495 ($295 for Employees of the State of Illinois and Higher Educational Institutions in Illinois)
Dates: June 12th and 13th
Location:University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana
Instructor: Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Skills: Participants should be familar wirh HTML, CSS and javascript technologies.
Recommend text: Javascript: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition
Description
This is a 2 day hands-on workshop designed for web developers to learn how to use the emerging W3C Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) recommendations to create accessible Web 2.0 applications. Participants will learn about the accessibility issues faced by people with disabilities in using the web, and how web resources can be designed to improve accessibility using the ARIA web standards. Participants will learn about the W3C Roles for ARIA and States and Properties Module for ARIA specifications for making web 2.0 widgets compatible with assistive technologies through ARIA support in Mozilla Firefox browser and assistive technologies like WindowEyes and JAWS screen readers. Participants will build and test the accessible Web 2.0 widgets using a best practices model and learn about compatibility issues related to supporting ARIA widgets with Microsoft Internet Explorer and creating valid HTML documents.
More information at:
http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/courses
Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Director of IT Accessibility Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology (DRES)
WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/