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OZeWAI 2003 Programme

Please note: this programme may change in some details.

Monday 1 December | Tuesday 2 December | Wednesday 3 December

Monday 1 December

Times Session
8.30am Registration | tea and coffee.
9.30am

Plenary

Keynote presentation: Bob Regan (60 mins)

Panel: Update on Accessibility Projects Around the World (30 mins)

  • the WebAIM Project - Shane Anderson, Paul Bohman
  • EuroAccessibility, SIDAR - Charles McCathieNevile
  • INCITS V2 - Katie Haritos-Shea
11.30 am

Plenary (90 mins)

New Accessibility Guidelines from W3C (45 mins)

  • WCAG 2 - Jason White
  • ATAG 2 - Liddy Nevile
  • XAG - Charles McCathieNevile

Conformant vs Accessible (20 mins) - Charles McCathieNevile

What difference does XML make? (20 mins) - CharlesMcCathieNevile

Hands-on Workshops (90 mins)

Using Dreamweaver with accessibility in mind - Bob Regan, Emeline Haight

In-depth CSS workshop (Part 1) - Jeff Lowder

Round Table Discussions (90 mins)

Accessible, Non-HTML Documents (45 mins) - Andrew Arch
1.00pm

Lunch
2.00pm

Plenary (90 mins)

Panel: What is accessibility? Quick introduction for those who are new to the area. How do I convince my boss to be concerned about accessibility? (90 mins)

Workshops (90 mins)

Making your Dreamweaver and FrontPage resources accessible with LIFT - Bob Regan and Emeline Haight

In-depth CSS workshop (Part 2) - Jeff Lowder

Making and using XSLT's - Max Froumentin

Round Table Session (90 mins)

The Community Connect Project - Matt Smith
4.00 pm

Plenary

Useability and Accessibility Evaluation Studio - Dey Alexander (90 mins)

Refereed Papers Session

  • Mathematics Texts for Blind Students: A Cautionary Tale (30 mins) - Ed Smith
  • Accessible Mathematics using MathML (30 mins) - Liddy Nevile

Hands-on Workshop (90 mins)

Flash - making accessible interactive content - Bob Regan
6.00 - 7.30pm

OZeWAI Reception, John Scott House, La Trobe

Tuesday 2 December

Times Session
8.30am Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00am

Plenary (90 mins)

Keynote presentation: Max Froumentin (60 mins)

Panel: Reusable content (30 mins)

11.30am

Plenary (90 mins)

Panel: Professional development (90 mins)

Hands-on Workshops (90 mins)

AccVerify, AccRepair, AccMonitor: Software for evaluating and reporting on resource accessibility (Part 1) - Liddy Nevile

Refereed Papers / Round Table Session (90 mins)

Web-based Teaching: Communicating Technical Diagrams with the Vision Impaired (30 mins) - Christopher Baillie, Oliver Burmeister and James Hamlyn-Harris

Nightingale: Reminiscence and Technology - From a user perspective (30 mins) - Peter Risborg, Aaron J. Quigley

Abbreviations/Acronyms/Initialisms on the Web (30 mins) - Sophie Celic
1.00pm

Lunch
2.00pm

Plenary (90 mins)

Invited presentation: Australian University Websites (30 mins) - Dey Alexander

Panel: What are Australian universities doing? - Sue Steele (Chair)

Hands-on Workshops (90 mins)

AccVerify, AccRepair, AccMonitor: Software for evaluating and reporting on resource accessibility (Part 2) - Liddy Nevile

Make it Multi-lingual and Accessible (90 mins) - Marc Walraven

Round Table Session (90 mins)

  • Markup is the User Interface (45 mins) - Geoff Deering
  • ???
4.00pm

Metadata Presentations (90 mins)

AccessForAll/MetadataForAccess (30 mins) - Liddy Nevile

EARL (30 mins) - Charles McCathieNevile

AccessForAll/WebForAll Demonstration (30 mins) - Brian Hardy

Round Table Session (90 mins)

Utilising Server Management Techniques (45 mins) - Geoff Deering
6.30 - 9.30pm

OZeWAI Dinner, John Scott House, La Trobe

Wednesday 3 December

Times Session
8.30am Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00am

Plenary (90 mins)

Keynote presentation: (45 mins) - Katie Haritos-Shea

Panel - Government Web managers talking about their experiences in selling, implementing and managing Accessibility (45 mins) - Andrew Arch (Chair)

11.30am

Plenary (90 mins)

The Cultural Impact of Communication Technologies for Deaf People - Len Bytheway (45 mins)

Workshops (90 mins)

Making Accessible Tables and Forms (Part 1) - Steven Faulkner

Braille, XML and the Web (20 mins) - Jason White
Math/Scientific notation and accessibility (70 mins) - Liddy Nevile, Jason White

WAVE - Software for evaluating and reporting on resource accessibility (Part 1) - Shane Anderson, Paul Bohman

Round Table Session (90 mins)

Tivis - An accessible/affordable kiosk project (90 mins) - Matt Smith
1.00pm

Lunch
2.00pm

Plenary (90 mins)

Panel: Developing Accessibility Policies (90 mins)

Hands-on Workshops (90 mins)

Making media objects accessible - Closed captions, audio channels, etc. - Peter Batchelor

Making Accessible Tables and Forms (Part 2) - Steven Faulkner

WAVE - Software for evaluating and reporting on resource accessibility (Part 2) - Shane Anderson, Paul Bohman

Round Table Session (90 mins)

New W3C Technologies: SWeb, XHTML 2, Xforms, XML events - Max Froumentin, Charles McCathieNevile
4.00pm

Plenary (60 mins)

Conference round-up - Liddy Nevile (Chair)
Chairs of all sessions to report
5.00 - 6.00pm

OZeWAI Closing Drinks, John Scott House, La Trobe

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