Agenda
Techshare India 2008 has been planned for 2 days that is 4th & 5th February, 2008.
Day 1 includes the keynote which was from morning until lunch. Following the keynote, papers were presented in 3 different rooms parallely.
On Day 2, there were 4 parallel presentations. These presentations were for the 3 tracks. In addition the 4th room had a mix of Track 2 and Track 3.
Please Note: The room for all the presentations of Track 2 - Making a difference on 5th February 2008 has been changed from The Theatre to Silver Oak hall, Ground Floor. If you have already printed your agenda, kindly reprint it.
The Tracks for the Conference include:
Track 1: The Road Ahead - Envision the Accessibility Road Map.
Track 2: Making a Difference.
Track 3: Bridging the Digital Divide.
Track 4: Joint Papers from Making a Difference & Bridging the Digital Divide.
Track 5: Accessibility in Action - Workshops.
| Time | Track | Paper | Presenter | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Keynote | Welcome Address | Shilpi Kapoor | Managing Director, BarrierBreak Technologies |
| 9:45 am – 10:15 am | Keynote | Keynote Address on Web Accessibility: International Standards for Local Users | Shadi Abou–Zahra | World Wide Web Consortium – Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Activity Lead |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Keynote | Keynote by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment | Veena Chhotray | – |
| 10:30 am – 11:15 am | Keynote | Panel Discussion – Perspective of different disabilities – Where we stand today and what is needed tomorrow? | Chaired By Javed Abidi. Panelist - Dipendra Minocha, Shivani Gupta, Sudha Kaul, Dr. Madan Vasishta |
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| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Keynote | Panel Discussion – Accessibility makes good business sense | Chaired By Shilpi Kapoor. Panelist - Pradeep Gupta(CyberMedia),Niranjan Khatri(ITC WelcomGroup), Sonia Shrivastava(Intel) |
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| 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm | Keynote | Ice breaker activity – Feeling Disabled, a few insights into the lives of persons with disabilities | – | – |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 1 | Setting the Scene - Understanding Infrastructure Accessibility | Shivani Gupta | Access Consultant & Co-Founder, AccessAbility. |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 2 | DAISY DFA and the focal point forums | Dipendra Manocha | Director DFA Regional Resource Centre, DAISY Consortium |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 3 | From a Digital Divide to a Digital Alliance - A future on the World Wide Web | Kenny Johar | Manager Architecture, Innovations and Accessible Solution, Vision Australia |
| 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 5 | Testing Website Accessibility - Using the free AIS Toolbar | Brian Hardy | National Manager Commercialisation and Consulting Services, Vision Australia. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 1 | International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Breaking the Communication Barrier | Sudha Kaul PhD. | President ISAAC , Executive Director, Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 2 | Braille, Large-Print, DAISY and MP3 with one simple but powerful tool - Dolphin EasyConverter | Steve Bennett | Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access Ltd. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 3 | Designing for Literacy: Challenges, Heuristics and Principles | Anirudha Joshi | Associate Professor, IDC, IIT Bombay. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 1 | Workplace solutions for employment of disabled | Ms. Shanti Raghavan | Founder and Managing Trustee, Enable India. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 2 | You Can Do THAT with Microsoft Word+WordQ? Reading, Writing and Studying Solutions | Sherri Parkins, B.A.,M.A. | AT/LS co-ordinator, Professor, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 3 | Automatic Generation of Speech Interface for GUI tools/applications using Accessibility Framework | Naveen Kumar | Project Engineer, CDAC Mumbai. |
| 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 5 | Flash and Accessibility | Vivek Gaikwad | Team lead - e-Learning | Accessibility, Net Systems Informatics / Barrierbreak Technologies. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 1 | Section 508 and Electronic Information Technology Accessibility | David Baquis | Accessibility Specialist, U.S. Access Board. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 2 | Assistive technology breaking barriers for education & employment across all disabilities | Ram Agarwal | CEO, Karishma Enterprises. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 3 | Accessing SAP Applications through Screen Readers | Kiran Kaja | Principal Software Engineer (Accessibility), SAP Labs (India). |
| Time | Track | Paper | Presenter | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Track 1 | The Copyright Challenge - The Indian Case | Dr. Sam Taraporevala | Director - Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), Reader - Department of Sociology, St. Xavier's College, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai/ Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Track 2 | AUTISM - Straighten the puzzle with structured environment | Priya James | Speech Language pathologist, Alpha vista Inc. |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Track 3 | Accessibility and Mobile friendly content - marrying the two | Charles "chaals" McCathieNevile | Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software. |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Track 4 | Bookshare.org: The online library built by people with disabilities | Lisa D. Friendly, Ph.D. | Director of Bookshare.org, Benetech. |
| 9:00 am – 10:45 am | Track 5 | A workshop on computer access by persons with Cerebral Palsy, locomotive, physical, hearing & speech impaired | Ram Agarwal | CEO, Index Assistive Technologies On behalf of Qualilife SA Switzerland. |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | Track 1 | Education & Employment - an impact on people with disabilities | Jayshree Raveendran | Executive Director, Ability Foundation. |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | Track 2 | Assistive Technology options for access to a computer, communication and environment | Edward Hitchcock | Occupational Therapist, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | Track 3 | The Case for Accessibility | Rahul Gonsalves | Freelance Web Designer, Gonsalves Design. |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | Track 4 | Accessible Design at UIDG, Tech Mahindra - Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings | Shalaka Dighe | Associate Consultant, User Interactions Design Group, Tech Mahindra. |
| 11:00 am – 11:45 am | Track 1 | Envisioning the Accessibility Road Map | Shilpi Kedia | Managing Director, BarrierBreak Technologies. |
| 11:00 am – 11:45 am | Track 2 | Seeing with sound: real-life experiences with a non-invasive visual prosthesis | Pranav Lal | N/A, N/A |
| 11:00 am – 11:45 am | Track 3 | Challenges for Web 2.0 Accessibility and Usability | Dr. Ajay Kolhatkar | Research Evangelist, Web 2.0 Research Lab, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Limited |
| 11:00 am – 11:45 am | Track 4 | Bridging digital divide in Gedaref Sudan within disabled | Ahmed mahmoud mohamed eisa | Chairman, Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO). |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Track 5 | WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 | Henny Swan | Senior Web Accessibility Consultant, RNIB. |
| 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm | Track 1 | Digital Empowerment Forum - Panel Discussion | – | |
| 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm | Track 2 | Accessible information provision - an overview of RNIB's current processes and future ambitions | Mandy Thompson | Operations Manager, Transformation, Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK. |
| 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm | Track 3 | Techniques for creating Effective Text Equivalents of Images | Brian Hardy | National Manager Commercialisation and Consulting Services, Vision Australia. |
| 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm | Track 4 | Banking Access for Visually Challenged - The Biometric Option | Prashant Naik | Training and Development Officer - Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), St. Xavier's College, Mumbai/ Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 1 | Practical Exercise - Troubleshooting Accessibility | Sachin Verma | Access Consultant & Co-Founder, AccessAbility. |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 2 | Indian Child Intelligence Test (ICIT) as a Diagnostic tool for identifying Learning Disabilities | Dr. Analpa Paranjpe | Director, Morris Trust's Bridging Over Learning Differences (BOLD) Programme, Pune. |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 3 | Bringing in the new generation of DAISY Books using DAISY Pipeline | Romain Deltour | Software Developer, DAISY Consortium |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Track 4 | Access to Information, Makes all the difference | George Abraham | CEO, Score Foundation. |
| 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 5 | Experiential Workshop: Learning Disabilities/Difficulties.You and Technology Can Make a Difference!! | Kevin Reinhardt, M. A., C.Psych.Assoc.(Supervised Practice) | Professor Assistive Technology, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 1 | Web Accessibility Policies in Australian Governments | Brian Hardy | National Manager Commercialisation and Consulting Services, Vision Australia. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 2 | Use of technology in education, training and development of the disabled | Ms. Shanti Raghavan | Founder and Managing Trustee, Enable India |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 3 | Web Technologies for Inclusive Education | Dr. Vijaya Deshmukh | Registrar, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Track 4 | Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired Access on the go | Dinesh Kaushal | Software developer, Code Factory. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 1 | Building accessibility in a large scale web application - experience with Yahoo! Mail Classic | Omprakash Subbarao | Director, Consulting Practice, Yahoo Software Development Centre India Private Limited, Bangalore. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 2 | Barrier Free Access to the Information Highway | Om D. Deshmukh | Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 3 | Software Accessibility - the forgotten key to unlock the door to access | Sally Cain | Digital Accessibility Development Officer, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), UK. |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Track 4 | Accessibility the way forward with Microsoft | Vijay Kapur | CTO, Microsoft India |
| 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 5 | Accessible PDF | Mamta Tandel | Project Lead, Accessibility, Net Systems Informatics / Barrierbreak Technologies. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 1 | Barriers to Breaking the Barriers - A study on the barriers encountered in the path to adopt Accessibility | Mr. Sriram Bharatam | CEO, Iridium Interactive Ltd. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 2 | Making Everyday Information Accessible - News-on-the-Go | Kenny Johar | Manager Architecture, Innovations and Accessible Solutions, Vision Australia. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 3 | Achieving Accessibility with Adobe Flex | Sameer Bhatt | Computer Scientist, Quality Engineer, Adobe Systems. |
| 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Track 4 | Differently abled people make International Award Winning e-Learning software | Col. KJ Singh | CEO, Designmate (I) Pvt. Ltd. |
