OZeWAI 2009 Programme

Wednesday 21st January | Thursday 22nd January | Friday 23rd January

Wednesday 21 January - Conference Programme

Times Session Description
8.30 am  

Registration | tea and coffee.
Informal introduction to accessibility (optional).

9.00 am 1

Opening Session (90 mins)

Welcome (5 mins): Liddy Nevile

Keynote (45 mins): Brian Kelly, United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN).
"From Web Accessibility 2.0 to Web Adaptability 1.0"

Presentation (30 mins): Mathew Mirabella, Telstra, and Gian Wilde
"Integrating and championing accessibility in your company"

10.30 am   Tea and coffee break
11.00 am 2

Session 2 (90 mins)

Presentation (30 mins): Gaynor Eccleston, Vision Australia.
"Testing for accessibility now"

Presentation (30 mins): Jonathan O'Donnell, RMIT University.
"Accessibility of Web transactions: Some examples of buying products online (or not)"

12.30pm  

Lunch

1.30 pm 3

Session 3 (90 mins)

Presentation (30 mins): Gaynor Eccleston, Vision Australia.
"Squeaky clean Ajax"

Presentation (30 mins): Scott Hollier, Media Access Australia
"Web 2.0 access: Where we are, and where we’re going"

3.00 pm   Tea and coffee break
3.30 pm 4

Session 4 (90 mins)

Presentation (30 mins): Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University
"ISO/IEC JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility"

Presentation (30 mins): Jonathan O'Donnell, RMIT University
"Social networking and accessibility"

6.00 - 8.00pm  

OZeWAI BBQ, John Scott House, La Trobe

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Thursday 22 January

Times Number Description
8.30 am   Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00 am 5

Session 5 (90 mins)

Keynote Presentation (45 mins): Eva Méndez, University Carlos III of Madrid
"I say accessibility when I want to say availability: misunderstandings of the accessibility in the other part of the world (EU and Spain)."

Presentation (30 mins): Anthony Earl, La Trobe University
"Accessibility in education"

10.30 am   Tea and coffee break
11.00 am 6

Session 6 (90 mins)

Presentation (30 mins): Neil King, Vision Australia.
"Creating accessible interfaces with the end user"

Presentation (30 mins): Liddy Nevile and Sarah Pulis, La Trobe University
"AccessForAll Metadata for all Australian Resources"

12.30pm  

Lunch

1.30 pm 7

Session 7 (90 mins)

Demonstration (40 mins): Gian Wild
"How to make accessible PDF documents"

3.00 pm   Tea and coffee break
3.30pm 8

Session 8 (90 mins)

Workshop (90 mins): Sarah Pulis and Mathew Mirabella
"The experience of using free tools to test and design for accessibility on the Web."

6.30 - 9.30pm  

OZeWAI Dinner, John Scott House Restaurant, La Trobe

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Friday 23 January

(including WANAU Program)

Times Number Description
8.30 am   Registration | tea and coffee.
9.00 am 9

Session 9 (90 mins)

"Presentation (30 mins)
"WCAG 2.0"

Panel discussion (30 mins)
"Implications of WCAG 2.0"

10.30 am   Tea and coffee break
11.00 am 10

Session 10 (90 mins)

Presentation (30 mins): Jason White
"Web Site and Web Application Accessibility with Orca and Firefox"

Presentation and discussion (40 mins): Matt May
"Universal Design for Web Applications - the book"

1.00 pm  

Lunch

1.30 pm 11

Session 11 (90 mins)

Presentation (30 mins): Charles McCathieNevile, Opera
"Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI ARIA) and HTML 5"

Presentation (30 mins): Michael Curran,
President/ software developer, NV Access Inc.
"Web Accessibility: from the perspective of an assistive technology"

3.00 pm   Tea and coffee break
3.30 pm 12

Session 12 (60 mins)

Panel (30 mins) -
Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software
Michael Curran, NV Access
Eva Mendez, Madrid University
Brian Kelly, UKOLN.

"Who is responsible for what?"
Panel will discuss who is responsible for which part of the accessibility chain.

Open discussion (30 mins): Looking back and forward
Introductory comments: Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, Charles McCathieNevile.

Plenary discussion

5.00 - 6.00 pm  

OZeWAI Closing Drinks, John Scott House, La Trobe