Wednesday 7th December | Thursday 8th December | Friday 9th December
Times | Session | General Stream | WebAIM Tutorial |
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8.30 am | Registration | tea and coffee. | ||
9.00 am | 1 | OZeWAI Update Tutorials (90 mins) [Rm 4]Chair: Andrew Arch, Vision Australia Tutorial 1: Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.0 Presenter: Andrew Arch, Vision Australia Tutorial 2: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 (draft for comment) Presenter: Gian Sampson-Wilde, iFocus |
WebAIM Tutorial (90 mins) [Council Chamber]Presenters: Paul Bohman, Shane Anderson, WebAIM Topic 1: Principles of a "POUR" Web site This will be a general-audience presentation. Anyone, regardless of level of expertise, will be able to attend. |
10.30 am | Tea and coffee break | ||
11.00 am | 2a | Hands-on Workshops (40 mins) [La Trobe Study Hall Level 2]Manual Evaluation of Web Accessibility based around the AIS Toolbar and other techniques - Andrew Arch, Vision Australia |
WebAIM Tutorial (90 mins) [Council Chamber]Presenters: Paul Bohman, Shane Anderson, WebAIM Topic 1: Principles of a "POUR" Web site (contd.) |
11.50 am | 2b | Hands-on Workshop (40 mins) [La Trobe Study Hall Level 2]Workshop: CSS fluid layouts - Lachlan Hardy, iFocus 'Elastic layouts' combine the strengths of fixed-width and liquid layouts. Participants will learn to create fantastic elastic layouts. |
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12.30pm | Lunch |
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2.00pm | 3 | Paper presentations (60 mins) [Council Chamber]"Tapping A Hidden Market: Advantages of Universal Design In telecommunications Products" (20 mins) Presenter: Matthew Mirabella - Telstra Research, Co-author Rob Pedlow "Sticks, carrots & staying sane: An approach to standards advocacy in large organisations" (slides) (20 mins) Presenter: Ben Buchanan - Griffith University Discussion Session (30 mins) [Council Chamber]Discussion of new W3C accessibility specifications (http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/adaptable and http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/GUI/ Presenters: Jason White, Melbourne University & Charles McCathieNevile, Opera |
WebAIM Hands-on Workshop (90 mins) [La Trobe Study Hall Level 2 or Beth Gleeson Building Level 1]Presenters: Paul Bohman, Shane Anderson, WebAIM Topic 2: Hands-on Techniques for a "POUR" Web site Participants will experiment with some of the techniques, and will need some web design background, even if minimal. The workshop would be a logical continuation of the morning session, so participants will benefit from attending both, rather than just the second. |
3.30 pm | Tea and coffee break | ||
4.00 pm | 4 | Business Case preparation using the W3C/WAI docs (60 mins) [Council Chamber]Chair: Mathew Mirabella, Telstra Research Presenters: The W3C EO Working Group Accessibility Standards Sports (20 mins) .....Chair: Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University 3 min informal presentations from people about what 'standards' they use and how they get support for them and what standards/specifications they need - discussion |
WebAIM Hands-on Workshop (90 mins) [La Trobe Study Hall Level 2 or Beth Gleeson Building Level 1]Presenters: Paul Bohman, Shane Anderson, WebAIM Topic 2: Hands-on Techniques for a "POUR" Web site (contd.) |
6.00 - 8.00pm | OZeWAI BBQ, John Scott House, La Trobe |
Times | Number | Session Description | Session Description | |
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9.00 am | 5a | W3C Keynote (45 mins) [Council Chamber]Keynote speaker: Shawn Henry - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Discussion (10 mins) |
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10.00 am | 5b | Government Keynote (30 mins) [Council Chamber]"Victoria Online's experience in making the state government portal accessible" Keynote speakers: Cheryl Hardy and Peter Sculley |
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10.30 am | 10.30 am | Tea and coffee break | ||
11.00am | 6 | Government Keynote (90 mins) [Council Chamber]"Web Accessibility in Denmark and an overview of activities in EU and some of the member states." Keynote speaker: Helle Bjarnø - Videncenter for Synshandicap (40 mins) "Local/state Government Experience in Australia" (40 mins)
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Hands-on Workshop (90 mins) [La Trobe Study Hall Level 2]Making accessible documents (PDFs, Microsoft Word, etc. ) Presenter: Shane Anderson - WebAIM |
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1.00pm | Lunch | |||
2.00pm | 7 | Metadata creation: Evaluation and Repair (90 mins) [Council Chamber]
Discussion |
Practical Session (90 mins) [Rm 3]Presenter: Jodie Moule, Symplicit Pty Ltd |
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3.30 pm | Tea and coffee break | |||
4.00pm | 8 | Plenary Session (90 mins) [Council Chamber]"AccessForAll Metadata for Accessible Resource Delivery" Presenter: Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University (30 mins) Discussion (60 mins) |
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8.00pm | 9 | Keynote Speaker (40 mins) [Council Chamber ] (cancelled)"Recent developments in website accessibility" Tele-Presenter: Professor Helen Petrie, York University, U.K. |
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6.30 - 9.30pm | OZeWAI Dinner, John Scott House Restaurant, La Trobe |
Times | Number | Session Description | Session Description |
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8.30 am | Registration | tea and coffee. | ||
9.00 am | 10 | Keynote Plenary (45 mins) [Council Chamber]"We're not there yet, but do we know where we're going?" Presenter: Paul Bohman - Web Accessibility in Mind Paul will look at the broad picture of disability access, including socio-political issues, rather than focusing exclusively on the narrower topics of standards or techniques. |
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10.00 am | 11 | Accessibility in Education Forum (30 mins) [Council Chamber]The goal of this session is to get a quick overview of the efforts being made around Australia to increase accessibility in educational settings. Speakers are offered 7 mins to present their work and there will be 3 mins for questions for each presentation. The session will include time for general discussion. Guest: Dr Evan Arthur, Manager, Innovation & Research Systems
Group, DEST Presenters:
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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (30 mins) [ELT2]TelePresenter: Jan Richards - W3C/ATRC |
10.30 am | Tea and coffee break | ||
11.30am | 12 | Accessibility in Education Forum - continued (90 mins) [Council Chamber]12.00 pm Technical Workshop (45 mins) [La Trobe Study Hall Level 2] |
Open Source Resources and Accessible Tools Panel (90 mins) [ELT2]5 mins presentation each
Discussion |
1.00pm | Lunch (WANAU Meeting Session) |
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2.00pm | 13 | Presentations (90 mins) [Rm 3]"Accessibility & Adaptability at Macquarie" (30 mins)
Presenter: Tony Dwyer, Macquarie University For a copy of the Macquarie Customised Accessibility Services (M-CAS) DVD or to obtain more information, please contact Jennifer Bainbridge on (02) 9850 7550 or email jennifer.bainbridge@mq.edu.au. Discussion "Creating and delivering an accessible web site" (60 mins) Creating and delivering the site is only half the challenge. Lack of on-going maintenance and accessible authoring leads to the downfall of most compliant sites. Presenter: Andrew Stevens, iFocus |
Technical Session - (90 mins) [Council Chamber]Presenters: Russ Weakley and Roger Hudson - Web Standards Group |
3.30 pm | Tea and coffee break | ||
4.00 pm | 14 | Plenary Session (90 mins) [Council Chamber]"What I really do: my idiosyncratic choices and use of software" Presenter: Jason White, University of Melbourne (20 mins) Discussion "Mobility and accessibility" (40 mins) Keynote Presenter: Charles McCathieNevile, Opera "Standards Australia and accessibility standards" (10 mins) Presenter: Irene Hagstrom, Standards Australia "Australia talks back" (20 mins) Chair: Liddy Nevile |
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5.00 - 6.00 pm | OZeWAI Closing Drinks, John Scott House, La Trobe |