Judy Brewer
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Cambridge, MA, USA
"Activities of the World Wide Web Accessibility Initiative -
Web Accessibility: Progress & Challenges"
For more information please refer to the
homepage of Judy Brewer:
http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/
George Kerscher
Project Manager of the DAISY Consortium
"Structured Access to Documents, Digital Talking Books and Beyond: The DAISY Consortium"
George Kersher was nominated and elected as Project Manager for the DAISY Consortium in 1997. He was elected as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Open EBook Forum (OeBF) in 1999. Mr. Kerscher received numerous awards and amongst them the Keith E. Denton Member of the Year Award. This most prestigious and rarely given award is made to a member of the Association for exceptional service to the blind. George Kerscher was appointed to serve on the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Steering Counsel as the co-chair in 1998.
George Kersher is one of the most outstanding experts putting the ideas of accessibility and universal design for people with disabilities in practice in the information age. We are pleased to announce that Mr. George Kersher, a pioneer in the field of accessibility and usability of documents for print disabled people, will keynote ICCHP 2002.
For more information
please refer to the homepage of Mr. Kersher:
http://www.montana.com/kerscher/
Karl Henry Haglund
Head of Unit, IST Programme, European Commission,
Belgium
INFORMATION SOCIETY RELATED RESEARCH IN THE DISABILITY
AND ELDERLY FIELD
Experience and Guidelines for the Future
The presentation will cover major results achieved by and observations about the research and development work funded by the European Commission and views on how to prepare for the future requirements and challenges in order to improve the dissemination and takeup of research and development results.
The tuning of the presentation will be done in co-operation with Mr. Buehler to ensure that it fits in the Workshop general structure in the best possible way.
Contact:
200, rue de la Loi
B-1049 Brüssel
Tel.: 0032-2-299 57 7 oder 00322/2968800
Fax: 00322/299417 oder 00322/2994170
E-mail: infso-desk@cec.eu.int
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/index_de.htm
Director, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Technology Transfer, and Director, Center for Assistive Technology, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Facilitating Uptake of Results of Research Projects through Technology Transfer and Prototype Commercialization in the USA
Contact:
T2RERC
Center for Assistive Technology
University at Buffalo
515 Stockton Kimball Tower
3435 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214-3079
1-800-628-2281(V/TT), 716-829-3141
Fax: 716-829-3217
E-mail: Joelane@buffalo.edu
http://cosmos.buffalo.edu/t2rerc/
Founder of The Paciello Group (TPG)
Engaging Users and Applying Usability Inspection Methods to Ensure Accessibility of Software
Mike Paciello is Founder of The Paciello Group. TPG is dedicated to stimulating education, research and development of technologies that will ensure communications access to people with disabilities. Mr. Paciello has spent the last 18 years as a technologist and professional speaker in the area of assistive technology and accessible interface design. As an international consultant and professional speaker, Mike has advised and lectured at institutions including Duke, Yale, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, and others. Mr. Paciello is a member of the Internet Society (ISOC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and HTML Writers Guild. He also serves as an advisor to Microsoft’s Assistive Technology Group (ATG). As an author, Mike’s current book, "Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities" is an industry first and international best seller. The book is available in accessible formats and Japanese. Mike is currently working on the second revision.
Contact:
E-mail: mpaciello@paciellogroup.com
http://www.paciellogroup.com