OZeWAI at OZCHI 2009 Programme

Monday

timetable
time	session	description
9.00	Introductions	Time for people to introduce themselves
9.15	Keynote: Andrew Arch, W3C	"Accessibility 24/7"
10.15	Demo	The gadgets I use... (Mat Mirbella, Telstra)
10.30	Morning tea
11.00	Workshop discussion: The guidelines and standards for accessibility - from a quick roadmap to the meaty issues.	Overview of all the rules, regulations and guidelines - the UN Convention; the ISO accessibility inventory; the Australian HR Commission; the Victorian HR Charter; the W3C guidelines and local policies. (Damien McCormack, Vision Australia) "Carrots and Sticks" - Critique and discussion of WCAG 2.0 (Roger Hudson, Web Usability) Making content to support good development practices (Dey Alexander)
12.30	Lunch
1.30-3.00	Workshop discussion: Working on accessibility within organisations...	Good and bad practices - what makes it hard for alternate format production? (Matthew Brett, Melb Uni, Darren Britten, La Trobe Uni) Good production practices and what engages big organisations...(Iza Bartosiewicz, RMIT; Mat Mirabella, Telstra)
3.00	Afternoon tea
3.30	We are all getting older - what will we want for our future?	The Deaf Communities and Accessibility (Lisa Herrod, ScenarioSeven.com.au) Aging problems (Andrew Arch, W3C; Rob Pedlow, Independent Disability Studies Scholar)
4.30	Keynote: Scott Hollier, Media Access Australia	Why don't people do it?
5.00	BOFs	Dinner in a local restaurant?

timetable
time	session	description
9.00	Introductions	5 mins for people to offer topics
9.30	New technologies	Semantic Web and metadata (Liddy Nevile, La Trobe)
10.00	Keynote: Brian Kelly, UKOLN (recorded)	'OZeWAI' From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability paper
10.30	Morning tea
11.00	PDFs - Useable or not?	Accessible PDFs (.pptx) (.ppt) (Evan Bailey & Andrew Downie, DET, NSW)
11.45	Cloud computing	"I can probably afford a netbook, so I can get online - what do I need to know?" (Scott Hollier, MAA)
12.30	Lunch
1.30	Research projects	- Watermark-based media Annotation for Blu-ray disks (Ron van Schyndel, RMIT) paper and slides. - Media Access' AWARe Project (Scott Hollier, MAA) - Usability of BrowseAloud and NVDA (Dharani Perera-Schulz, Monash) - PDF research (Neil King, Vision Australia) Participant contributions and discussion
3.00	Afternoon tea
3.30	Research questions/proposals	Small group activity for collaborations, research, etc.
4.45	Workshop wind-up