Mobile accessibility summit
Axel Leblois
Dear Sharron,
Knowing of your involvement with leading edge accessibility issues, I wanted to alert you on the upcoming M-Enabling Summit, the first mobile industry event exclusively dedicated to accessible and assistive mobile solutions for senior citizens and persons with disabilities to be held in Washington, D.C. on December 5-6, 2011.
Key speakers include FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, ITU Secretary-General, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Inaugural Chairperson, Mohammed Al-Tarawneh. We also have invited more than 60 speakers and high-caliber participants such as AT&T, Orange, RIM/Blackberry, Verizon Communications, Code Factory, Deque Systems, LucyTech, CTIA – The Wireless Association, W3C, DAISY Consortium, Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology, American Association of People with Disabilities, American Federation for the Blind, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Abilities! and the Nathaniel H. Kornreich Technology Center etc.
The M-Enabling Summit will cover topics relevant to all aspects of mobile accessibility.
I would be very happy if you and your colleagues can participate. Among topics which may be of interest to you:
- Applications designed by businesses and governments to expand services and reach out to senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
- Practical steps taken by governments and private sector organizations around the world to implement accessible mobile services for seniors and persons with disabilities.
- Experiences of major mobile service providers how accessible mobile technologies, applications and development methodologies help better serve all customers and expand their market.
- Show and tell sessions with application developers of advanced mobile assistive solutions and services for education, travel and tourism, e-government, e-commerce or independent living.
- A review of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act and other international legislation which will impact public and private services using mobile communications, apps and mobile web sites.
- Accessible mobile solutions for emergency response and disaster preparedness.
For a complete agenda, please visit: http://www.m-enabling.com.
Should you have any question, please feel free to contact Pat Tessler at EJ Krause and Associates, G3ict’s partners for the organization of the M-Enabling Summit. Pat can be reached at tes...@ejkrause.com and +1 301- 493-5500, ext. 3386.
I sincerely hope that you can participate. If you cannot, please feel free to forward this invitation to those of your colleagues who may be interested in attending the M-Enabling Summit.
With best regards,
Axel
Axel Leblois
Executive Director
G3ict, Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs
Phone + 1 678-534-8518 | Fax + 1 404-252-0628 | Cell + 1 404-641-5661
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www.g3ict.org | www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org
From: Sharron Rush [mailto:sr...@knowbility.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:27 PM
To: Access Sig
Subject: [Accessibility_SIG] State benefit websites fail to meet access requirements
COAT writes about this recent report that finds Five State Benefits' Websites Inaccessible to People with Disabilities
A June 22, 2010 report finds that state public benefits agencies are increasingly relying on their websites as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, food stamps, and cash assistance. The new report by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) discusses research findings that agency websites have a host of problems that make them inaccessible to people with disabilities who use assistive technology, and difficult for everyone to navigate...
The original report is here.... http://www.nclej.org/documents/TheClosedDigitalDoor.pdf
Best,
Sharron
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Sharron Rush | Executive Director | www.Knowbility.org | 512 305-0310
Equal access to technology for people with disabilities
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