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World Wide Web Consortium in Brisbane
- Subject: World Wide Web Consortium in Brisbane
- From: "Wolf-Dietrich Trenner" <taubblind_bEi_post.de>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:07:48 +0200
Fuer die, die sich einschalten wollen, zur Kenntnis. Ich habe dieses Jahr
keinen einzigen Aprilscherz gemacht.
Frohes Osterfest, Wolf
Wolf-Dietrich Trenner
Foerdergemeinschaft fuer Taubblinde e.V.
http://selbsthilfe.seiten.de
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>Hello W3C/WAI Interest Group Participants:
>
>In case you happen to be heading to Brisbane this week, here is updated
>information on Web Accessibility-related activities taking place around the
>WWW7 Conference.
>
>General information on the conference is available at http://www7.conf.au
>Detailed program information is currently available at
>http://www7.conf.au/programdraft/programdraft2.html , check WWW7 home page
>for updates.
>
>If you need to contact me while in Brisbane, I will be arriving Tuesday and
>staying at the Rydges South Bank hotel next to the Conference Center. The
>phone number for the hotel is 07 3255 0822. I should also be on e-mail at
>jbrewer_bEi_w3.org throughout the week.
>
>TUESDAY APRIL 14:
>
>- Tutorial: Inclusive Web Design - How to Create Accessible Web Sites, by
>Jutta Treviranus and Kevin Nguyen of the University of Toronto. Details of
>this session are at
>http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/bebo/www7/tutsdesc.html#jutta Registration
>is required for this session. The session appears to run from 9:00 to
>5:00, with participants requested to show up by 8:30 a.m. The room number
>is variously given as Room S310 (80) or Room K.
>
>- Workshop: Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities, by Mike
>Paciello, has been cancelled.
>
>THURSDAY APRIL 16:
>
>- Panel: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30, Session 4-M3, Web Accessibility: Technical
>and business challenges, implementation successes. Panelists Daniel
>Dardailler, W3C; Phill Jenkins, IBM; Jason White, WAI participant; Lauren
>Wood, SoftQuad; moderated by Judy Brewer, W3C/WAI. This session will focus
>on technical issues in Web accessibility. For a detailed description of
>the panel go to http://www7.conf.au/programdraft/panels/1945/com1945.htm
>
>- Panel: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30, Session 5-M3, Accessibility & Universal Design:
>Advantages and Impact for Business, Government, and Developers. Panelists
>George Kerscher, RFB&D and DAISY Consortium; Steven Lucas, MatchLogic;
>Jutta Treviranus, University of Toronto; Cynthia Waddell, City of San Jose,
>California, USA; moderated by Judy Brewer. This session will focus on
>business & implementation issues. For a detailed description of the panel
>go to http://www7.conf.au/programdraft/panels/1944/com1944.htm
>
>- Presentation: 4:50 p.m. - 6:00, W3C Track in Great Hall: Web
>Accessibility overview & update. Presenters Daniel Dardailler & Judy
>Brewer of W3C/WAI. For more information on this session, and the rest of
>the W3C track presentations throughout the week, go to
>http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW7/W3CTrack .
>
>SATURDAY APRIL 18:
>
>WAI meetings: If you plan to participate in these meetings, please make
>sure you have registered. (For this meeting only, OK to register as late as
>Wednesday April 17.) Likewise, if you registered, but now find you can't
>attend, please let us know, so we can plan for the right number of people!
>- Information and registration - http://www.w3.org/WAI/1998/04/meeting
>- Location - BCEC (Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, where WWW7 is
>held); meeting room will be announced by e-mail to registered participants
>on Wednesday, or contact me at the Rydges South Bank hotel next to BCEC.
>
>- 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Conference call for WAI Authoring Tools
>Guidelines Working Group. To participate in this call you must be an
>active participant of the WAI AU Working Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU ,
>have registered for the WAI meeting on April 18, and let Jutta know you'll
>be participating in the call - jutta.treviranus_bEi_utoronto.ca
>
>- 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Meeting of WAI Interest Group. This is the
>overall interest group for the Web Accessibility Initiative.
>
>- 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Meeting of WAI Authoring Tools Working Group. No
>outside phone connection with the rest of the AU Working Group, but this
>session will continue the agenda from the morning's call, and include
>discussion with other participants of the WAI IG meeting in Brisbane.
>
>- 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. WAI Interest Group wrap-up and next steps
planning.
>