Jenny,
is there any possible funding to present or attend this event?
I have more than ten years experience contributing to web standards
and developing online resources for people with learning disabilities
and/or low literacy.
please find attached a couple of references
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
A talk to CETIS Accessibility SIG:
Putting the User at the Heart of the W3C Process
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Accessibility_SIG_Meeting_24th_July_2007
Formal Objection to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2006AprJun/0368.html
On 7 Jan 2008, at 11:44, Jenny Craven wrote:
Call for papers: A Special Thematic Session on Accessibility:
Education for
Web Design will be held at the 11th International Conference on
Computers
Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP)
July 9 - 11, 2008, University of Linz, Austria
Pre-Conference July 7 - 8, 2008
www.icchp.org
The Call for Papers is open until February 1, 2008.
As part of the ICCHP programme, a Special Thematic Session (STS) on
Accessibility: Education for Web Design is proposed and contributions
are
invited for this STS in order to bring together stakeholders such as
educators, eLearning providers, researchers and user representatives to
share their knowledge and expertise. The STS Chairs invite you to
help raise
the strategic importance of Accessibility: Education for Web Design.
Indicative areas of interest should include the following, although
other
areas not listed below may also be considered:
* Curriculum and content
* Didactic approaches: eLearning, blended learning, distance education,
assessment
* Accessibility and lifelong learning
* Guidelines, laws and policies
* Heterogeneity of target groups: teachers, students, managers, service
providers
* Widening participation: eInclusion, minority and disadvantaged groups
* Accessible tools: authoring, user agents, eLearning platforms
* Management: evaluation, quality mechanisms
* Best practice and demonstrators
* New careers and opportunities
* New ideas and concepts in education for web design
For further details about this STS please visit: http://www.icchp.org/
node/164
Submission of papers:
Contributions to the STS are done via the standard submission scheme of
ICCHP at http://www.icchp.org/call/papers. When submitting your
contribution please make sure to use the name of the STS as the
category.
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2008
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