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Liddy, This looks good. Is there anything you want me to prepare ahead of the session such as an introductory presentation for example like I gave in Madrid? Not looking for extra work just offering help! Cheers, Martyn -----Original Message----- From: DCMI Accessibility Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Liddy Nevile Sent: 22 September 2006 04:38 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: DC 2006 Accessibility Session Agenda and News The DC 2006 conference will take place shortly in Mexico. The Working Group has been collaborating for several years in an effort to determine a standard way to describe the accessibility characteristics of resources and users' accessibility needs and preferences. This work has achieved a major goal that has led to the finalisation of the ISO IEC JTC1 SC36 AccessForAll standard framework and parts 1, 2 and 3, for education. These will be published in final form some time in 2007. The ISO standard started with the accessibility aspects of digital resources but is moving now to include ways of describing the accessibility aspects of events and places, non-digital resources and also to determine how to describe linguistic and cultural requirements and matching resource characteristics. Given the new standard, it is time for the DC Accessibility WG to finalise its work on an application profile for resource accessibility (not just in education). This work involves adapting the ISO standard for expression in DC compliant form in a DC Application Profile. It also means an Application Profile for user's individual needs and preferences that should also be expressed in DC compliant form.. The work planned for the Mexico meeting is, therefore, to provide a forum for discussion of the DC version of AccessForAll and the proposed application profile. There is already a collection of material available on the DC wiki (http://dublincore.org/ accessibilitywiki) and some notes on the WG website (http:// dublincore.org/groups/access/). The session will be held 16.30 - 18.30 on October 5 (Manzanillo local time and date). It should be noted that this will be early on Oct 6 in Australia and other countries in the Asian region. When possible, anyone interested in this work can participate remotely, so we will try to make the session to be held in Mexico inclusive to those who wish to join us (details will be posted on the wiki closer to the event but please let me know if you are interested). We will use the wiki during the session so please look to it for notes, other information, and a place where you can contribute (see http://dublincore.org/accessibilitywiki/ AccessForAllSession). Liddy