Transcript Workshop Moderator Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December 2008 Including Accessibility and Human Factors in the Universalization of the Internet - How to reach persons.

Workshop Moderator
Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December 2008
Including Accessibility and Human Factors in the
Universalization of the Internet - How to reach persons with
disabilities, the 10% of the next billion
Andrea Saks (ITU/JCA-AHF)
Convener, Joint Coordination Activity on
Accessibility and Human Factors
Programme (1/2)
Moderator:
Andrea Saks (ITU)
Keynote:
"Accessibility a priority for ITU" Malcolm Johnson
(Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau)
Speakers:
1. “The UN Convention on Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (UNCRPD): How does it Impact the
Internet?” Cynthia Waddell (ICDRI)
2. “International standards for Web accessibility”
Shadi Abou-Zahra (W3C Web Accessibility Initiative)
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Programme (2/2)
Speakers:
3. “Achieving Web accessibility laws in developing
countries” Jorge Plano (ISOC-AR)
4. “Low and No-Cost Assistive Technologies: Making
Large Scale Deployments Feasible” Fernando
Botelho (Mais Diferenças and Literacy Bridge)
5. “Real-time Text: An Essential Accessibility Feature”
Arnoud van Wijk (ISOC)
6. “Space Network Systems Online and Accessibility”
Peter Major (ITU-R)
7. “Information accessibility for disaster preparedness”
Dipendra Manocha (Daisy Consortium)
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