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Highlights of Techshare India - India's first Accessibilty and
Assistive Technology conference and exhibition
“600 million people with disabilities in the world, 60 million in India alone.
Would you like to access this untapped market?”
Techshare India, 2008 – Breaking the Barriers is the first accessibility
conference and exhibition in India that will highlight the needs of people with
disabilities. It will
showcase the role of technology in the lives of people with disabilities,
looking not just at web accessibility but also software accessibility, and
accessibility on the move
for mobiles and PDAs.
In addition, Techshare India will also highlight the importance of implementing
accessibility standards and complying to different accessibility laws.
Techshare India 2008 will be held on 4th and 5th February, 2008 at India Habitat
Centre, New Delhi, India.
Special Attraction: Keynote speaker will be Shadi Abou Zahra, World Wide Web
Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Activity Lead.
Key Highlights of Track 1: The Road Ahead - Envisioning the Accessibility Road
Map
• Section 508 and Electronic Information Technology Accessibility - David Baquis,
Accessibility Specialist, US Access Board
• Building accessibility in a large scale web application - experience with
Yahoo! Mail Classic - Omprakash Subarrao, Director Consulting Practices, Yahoo!
India
• Envisioning the Accessibility Road Map - Shilpi Kedia, Managing Director,
BarrierBreak Technologies
Key Highlights of Track 2: Making a Difference
• Braille, Large-Print, DAISY and MP3 with one simple but powerful tool -Dolphin
EasyConverter - Steve Bennett, Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access
• Achieving Accessibility with Adobe Flex - Sameer Bhatt, Computer Scientist,
Adobe Systems
• Indian Child Intelligence Test (ICIT) as a Diagnostic tool for identifying
Learning Disabilities - Dr. Analpa Paranjpe, Director, Morris Trust
Key Highlights of Track 3: Bridging the Digital Divide
• From a Digital Divide to a Digital Alliance - A future on the World Wide Web -
Kenny Johar, Research, Architecture and Solutions Lead – Vision Australia
• Automatic Generation of Speech Interface for GUI tools/applications using
Accessibility Framework - Navin Kumar, Project Engineer, CDAC Mumbai
• Bookshare.org: The online library built by people with disabilities - Lisa D.
Friendly, Director, BookShare.org
• Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired
Access on the go - Dinesh Kaushal, Lead Developer, Code Factory
In this India's First Accessibility and Assistive Technology conference and
exhibition, there will be an opportunity to meet:
• US Access Board
• World Wide Web Consortium
• Yahoo! India
• Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK
And many more from across the globe!
Registrations are now open! Please visit
http://www.barrierbreak.com/conferenceregistration.php to register online.
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