Presentations at Techshare India 2008
At the first accessibility conference and exhibition - Techshare India 2008 there were variety of presentations by speakers from across the world. Some of the speakers who presented at the conference included Brian Hardy and Kenny Johar of Vision Australia, Mandy Thompson and Steve Morgan of The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) UK, Steve Bennett of Dolphin Computer Access, David Baquis of Section 508, Lisa Friendly of Bookshare to name a few.
Some of the speakers have provided their presentations that can be shared on the Techshare India website. Kindly note that BarrierBreak Technologies is not responsible for the accessibility of these presentations.
The presentations are in different format, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point (PPT), and Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) etc. To download the plug-in required to access the information in alternate formats, refer to the Help section of this website.
The presentations represented five different tracks, namely:
- 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
| Speaker's Name | Presentation Name |
|---|---|
| Panelist - Dr. Madan Vasishta | Keynote: Panel Discussion - Perspective of different disabilities - Where we stand today and what is needed tomorrow?  Technology
and the Deaf (PPT - 102 KB) |
| David Baquis | Section
508 and Electronic Information Technology Accessibility (PPT - 280 KB) |
| Brian Hardy | Web Accessibility Policies in Australian Governments (PPT - 1,001 KB) |
| Omprakash Subbarao | Building accessibility in a large scale web application - experience with Yahoo! Mail Classic (PPT - 368 KB) |
| Speaker's Name | Presentation Name |
|---|---|
| Steve Bennett | Braille,
Large-Print, DAISY and MP3 with one simple but powerful tool - Dolphin
EasyConverter (PPT - 267 KB) |
| Sherri Parkins, B.A.,M.A. | |
| Ram Agarwal |  Assistive
technology breaking barriers for education & employment across all
disabilities (Word - 112 KB) |
| Mandy Thompson | Accessible information provision - an overview of RNIB's current processes and future ambitions (PPT - 383 KB) |
| Kenny Johar | Making Everyday Information Accessible - News-on-the-Go (PPT - 1,591 KB) |
| Speaker's Name | Presentation Name |
|---|---|
| Kenny Johar | From
a Digital Divide to a Digital Alliance - A future on the World Wide Web
(PPT - 588 KB) |
| Naveen Kumar | Automatic
Generation of Speech Interface for GUI tools/applications using Accessibility
Framework (PPT - 273 KB) |
| Rahul Gonsalves |  The Case for Accessibility (PDF - 5,858 KB) Opens in a new window |
| Brian Hardy | Techniques for creating Effective Text Equivalents of Images (PPT - 1922 KB) |
| Sameer Bhatt | Achieving Accessibility with Adobe Flex (PDF - 494 KB) Opens in a new window |
| Speaker's Name | Presentation Name |
|---|---|
| Lisa D. Friendly, Ph.D. | Bookshare.org:
The online library built by people with disabilities (PPT - 763 KB) |
| Speaker's Name | Presentation Name |
|---|---|
| Brian Hardy | Testing Website Accessibility - Using the free AIS Toolbar (PPT - 716 KB) |
