7th European e-Accessibility Forum - Developing e-Accessibility as a Professional Skill
Lun, 18/03/2013
As every year The European eAccessibility Forum will be held at the Science City - Universcience in Paris. The 7th Forum will take place in March 18, 2013, under the patronage of François HOLLANDE, President of the French Republic.The theme will be "Developing e-Accessibility as a Professional Skill". It is organized by the Institute of eAccessibility, BrailleNet and the Cité des Sciences - Universcience.
Most digital content professionals recognise the legal and business case for developing accessible products and services. Nonetheless, campaigns exhorting e-Accessibility tend to ring hollow as the professionals concerned lack the basic training to be able to implement the associated techniques, methodologies and technologies. Accessibility is absent from the curricula of most universities, and companies rarely consider it sufficiently strategic to be the subject of employee training and development.
The role of industry specialists and policymakers is paramount in fostering e-Accessibility as a professional skill. Governments and organisations wishing to see increased levels of e-Accessibility will need to act decisively to ensure professionals have access to quality educational resources.
The 7th European Forum on e-Accessibility will address the following themes:
- Industry Needs for e-Accessibility Skills
- e-Accessibility Education, Training and Outreach
- The e-Accessibility specialist: what professional qualification?
- Models for Fostering national and international Cooperation
Address to participants by Ms. Neelie KROES, Vice President of the European Commission, Responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe
Speakers and themes at the Forum:
Speakers will consider a common thread for their lectures: e-Accessibility relies on the knowledge of the needs of disabled people and the assistive technology that they use. How can this knowledge become a professional skill and create new job opportunities for disabled people.
- Accessibility: a core skill for publishers by Luc Audrain, Head of Digitalization, Hachette Livre
- AccessiWeb, the story of an expert community in Web accessibility by Denis Boulay, Accessiweb
- E-Accessibility at Groupe La Poste by Michel Delattre, Groupe La Poste
- Necessary changes in the profession of document adaption for visually impaired students by Nicolas Eglin, Director, Regional Technical Center for the Visually Impaired (CTRDV)
- Community Collaboration through W3C WAI: Working Together on Web Accessibility by Shawn Henry, W3C
- Develop awareness and training among publishing professionals by Sarah Hilderley, Accessibility Project Lead, EDItEUR
- Mind the Digital Gap – Join the Revolution by Nigel Lewis, CEO of AbilityNet
- What is important is in the curricula by Klaus Miesenberger, Linz University
- E-learning : The Power of Communities by Mathieu Nebra, CEO, Simple IT
- Creating a Global Community of Accessibility Professionals by Rob Sinclair, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft
- e-Accessibility as a transferable skill in production teams by Gerald Schmidt, Pearson Education
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