[ossig] Web Accessibility Conference April 3-4th

[Khairil Yusof]

http://accessibility.ncbm.org.my/

April 3-4, 2008 at the Auditorium, 5th Floor, (NIO Building), 
The Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital, Lot 2, Lorong Utara B,
Petaling Jaya.

This is for those of you interested in web devel and accessibility.
There are open standards (W3C) and open source topics.

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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.