Past Events

Web Accessibility Conference

kaeru — 2010-02-08T07:48:38Z

The National Council for the Blind Malaysia (NCBM) presents a Web Accessibility Conference to bridge the digital divide on access to technology for people who are blind and visual impaired, as well as people with different disabilities and people with accessibility needs due to ageing.

NCBM acknowledges that ICT (information and communications technology) has become very important and powerful in this modern age; in fact, it is an indispensable tool for all who want to be successful. This, too, applies to people who have visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive/intellectual, and neurological disabilities. Unfortunately, due to many accessibility barriers in web sites, there is danger that people with disabilities will be left behind. One of the barriers is when websites do not follow international standards and instead create web sites that do not work for people who are blind and use speech software.

For this reason, NCBM is organizing the conference to highlight such problems being faced by people with disabilities using the Web, and to create public awareness, especially among Government and private sector bodies, to make their websites more accessible to everyone. We have speakers from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Adobe ? an industry leader for accessibility and E-business specialist Skali to contribute their expertise and experiences to a feasible development scenario in our Malaysian context.

For more details visit http://foss.org.my/events/all/web-accessibility-conference

IOSN Accessibility Workshop for the Visually Disabled

kaeru — 2010-02-08T07:46:06Z

This event will bring together Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) practitioners and users with disabilities Consists of domain experts (disabled users) working together with local FOSS resource persons.

The morning session is facilitated by a domain expert and they come up with a framework for evaluating FOSS software with regards to accessibility for visually disabled users. In the afternoon, the FOSS facilitator takes over and demonstrates the various FOSS solutions that are available. The domain experts are guided (hands on) on the different FOSS solutions and gives scores and feedback to the tools using the morning's framework.

Contact Persons

FOSS technical volunteers - Khairil Yusof
Visually disabled users - Mary Chen marywchen@yahoo.com

Schedule

Outputs

a domain specific evaluation framework
a domain-oriented perspective of the existing tools (through the scoring)
a prioritized list of features for each FOSS app needed to bring
the app up to par with the needs of the domain expert

Workshop logistics

See workshop checklist - see if you can help out by donating equipment

Resources

Partners

For more details visit http://foss.org.my/projects/community-projects/iosn-accessibility-rtd/iosn-accessibility-workshop