OZeWAI 2006 Programme

Wednesday 29th November | Thursday 30th November | Friday 1st December

Wednesday 29 November - Conference Progamme

Times Session General Stream HiSoftware Stream  
8.30 am   Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00 am  

Opening session - welcome

9.15 am 1a

OZeWAI W3C/WAI Technical Update Tutorials (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

Topic 1: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0
Presenter: Andrew Arch, Vision Australia

Topic 2: Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 (26 mb)
Presenter: Jan Richards, Editor of ATAG, W3C/ATRC

Topic 3: The differences between IE6 and IE7
Presenter: Mathew Mirabella, Telstra

Discussion

HiSoftware Tutorial 1 Part 1 (90 mins) [Computer Laboratory BG139]

Hands-on workshop using the software AccVerify and AccRepair to evaluate and repair content. All participants will be given a six months free licence to this software.

Presenters: Rob Yonaitis, HiSoftware

1b

10.30 am   Tea and coffee break
11.00 am 2a

Presentations (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

"The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH, Boston" (note-videos are missing)
Presenter: Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH/NCAM

"Difficulties we don't always remember - experiences with excessive fatigue" (40 mins)
Presenter: Matt Smith
Discussion

HiSoftware Tutorial 1 Part 2 (90 mins) [Computer Laboratory BG139]

Hands-on workshop using the software AccVerify and AccRepair to evaluate and repair web content. All participants will be given a six months free licence to this software.

Presenters: Rob Yonaitis, HiSoftware

2b

12.30pm  

Lunch

2.00pm 3a

Presentations (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

"What are the challenges for Wikipaedia and what does Wikipaedia offer us?" (45 mins)
Presenter: Jonathan O'Donnell
Audience participation

"Accessibility for Older People" (45 mins)
Presenter: Mat Mirabella, Telstra
Audience participation

HiSoftware Tutorial 2 Part 1 (90 mins) [Computer Laboratory BG139]

Hands-on workshop using the software AccMonitor to manage a site on an on-going basis using metadata generated using AccVerify. All participants will be given a six months free licence to this software.

Presenters: Rob Yonaitis, HiSoftware

3b

3.30 pm   Tea and coffee break
4.00 pm 4a

Presentations: [Council Chamber]

"Making Accessibility Pervasive" (45 mins)
Presenter: Jason White, University of Melbourne
Commentators: Madeleine Rothberg, Andrew Arch.

"How I Use the Web" (20 mins)
Presenter: Dean Calder, ANZ Bank

"Annotations and Accessibility" (20 mins)
Presenter: Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University

HiSoftware Tutorial 2 Part 2 (90 mins) [Computer Laboratory BG139]

Hands-on workshop using the software AccMonitor to manage a site on an on-going basis using metadata generated using AccVerify. All participants will be given a six months free licence to this software.

Presenters: Rob Yonaitis, HiSoftware

4b

6.00 - 8.00pm  

OZeWAI BBQ, John Scott House, La Trobe

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Thursday 30 November

Times Number Session Description Session Description Number
8.30 am   Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00 am 5

Keynote (45 mins) [Council Chamber]

"Accessibility in the corporate world"
Keynote speaker: Johann de Boer, ANZ Bank

Johann is Technology Accessibility Manager within Enterprise and Staff Technologies. He founded and chairs the ANZ Disability Network, and is a staff representative on the ANZ Diversity Council.

Discussion

FAQ Session 1 - what is difficult if you are working on accessibility in Oz? (30 mins)

The aim of the FAQ session is to record and provide advice in direct response to participants' issues. The FAQ will be documented on the OZeWAI website and available for all to use in the future.

10.30 am   Tea and coffee break
11.00am 6a

Tutorial (40 mins) [Council Chamber]

"CapScribe: Annotation of video content" (40 mins)
Presenter: Charles Silverman, U of Toronto

"Accessibility of MP3 and mobile devices" (40 mins)
Presenter: Mat Mirabella, Telstra

Accessibility Metadata Standards Workshop Pt 1 (90 mins) [Room ?]

AccessForAll workshop for IMS/ISO standards for education and Dublin Core standards for general use. In this session, the details of the standard will be described and participants will be invited to ask questions.
Presenters: Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH/NCAM, Liddy Nevile, La Trobe.

 

6b
1.00pm   Lunch
2.00pm 7a

Tutorial Session (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

"Introduction to Usability"

Presenter: Dey Alexander

 

Accessibility Metadata Standards Workshop Pt 2 (90 mins) [Room ?]

In this session, participants will be asked to critique the vocabularies and structure of the DC standard (technical participants will be invited to work on XML/RDF schema). See http://dublincore.org/accessibilitywiki/

Presenters: Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH/NCAM, Liddy Nevile, La Trobe.

7b

3.30 pm   Tea and coffee break
4.00pm 8

Plenary Session (45 mins) [Council Chamber]

"How we are progressing?" A reflection on what we have seen over the years and how we are doing compared to others.

Keynote speaker: Andrew Arch - Vision Australia (45 mins)

4.45pm 9

Plenary Session (45 mins) [Council Chamber]

"Moving Your Organisation to Web Standards" (45 mins)
Invited speakers: Priscilla Brice-Weller, Matt Magain, WSG

Matthew Magain will introduce the work of the Web Standards Group, and provide information on the resources available to web designers, and how you can be involved.
Priscilla Brice-Weller will talk about the challenges faced when moving a large organisation to web standards, based on a real case study (Oxfam Australia).

6.30 - 9.30pm  

OZeWAI Dinner, John Scott House Restaurant, La Trobe

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Friday 1 December

(including WANAU Program)

Times Number Session Description Session Description Number
8.30 am   Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00 am 10

Keynote session (45 mins) [Council Chamber]

"Seeing Sound, Hearing Images: Making Media Accessible"

Keynote Speaker: Madeleine Rothberg - WGBH/National Center for Accessible Media

Madeleine Rothberg is the Director of Research and Development for the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media.

Discussion

10.00 am 11a

FAQ Session 2 (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

"What is difficult if you are working on accessibility in Oz?"

The aim of the FAQ session is to record and provide advice in direct response to participants' issues. The FAQ will be documented on the OZeWAI website and available for all to use in the future.

Accessible Podcasts (90 mins) [Room ?]

The goal of this session is to identify and document the techniques for producing an accessible podcast.
Presenters: Peter Batchelor, Jonathan O'Donnell

11b
10.30 am   Tea and coffee break
11.30am 12a

Presentations (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

"Promoting accessibility in the web development
lifecycle
" (60 mins)

Most would agree that retrofitting designs to accommodate accessibility concerns is more difficult than when accessibility is considered earlier. In this presentation, I will consider how we can promote accessibility in each stage of the Web development lifecycle, resulting in a more accessible and usable site.
Presenter: Dey Alexander, Dey Alexander Consulting

"Manual Evaluation of Web Accessibility based around the open source AIS Toolbar and other techniques (30 mins)"
Presenter - Andrew Arch, Vision Australia

Research Proposals Session (90 mins)

Chair: Liddy Nevile

The aim of this session is to encourage members of the community to develop research projects in collaboration with others, to discover what opportunities there are for research, and what opportunities are still required.

12b
1.00pm  

Lunch (WANAU Meeting Session)

2.00pm 13a

Research Presentations [Council Chamber]

"Decision-making and accessibility" (60 mins)
Presenter: Chris Law, RMIT

Presentation: "NCAM developments" (30 mins)
Presenter: Madeleine Rothberg

Technical Challenges Session [Rm ?]

"AJAX and Accessibility" (60 mins)
Presenter: Mathew Mirabella, Telstra

"Converting scientific texts to braille" (30 mins)
Presenter: Jim Munro, La Trobe

13b
3.30 pm   Tea and coffee break
4.00 pm 14

Plenary Session (90 mins) [Council Chamber]

"DAISY developments" (20 mins)
Presenter: Tony Iezzi, Vision Australia

"Accessibility beyond screen readers, an implementor's perspective" (40 mins)
Presenter: Charles McCathieNevile, Opera

"Standards Australia and accessibility standards" (20 mins)
Presenter: Samantha Walker, Standards Australia

5.00 - 6.00 pm  

OZeWAI Closing Drinks, John Scott House, La Trobe