[Reader-list] CIS Workshop on Web Accessibility

[Nishant Shah]

Hi TaraPrakash,
Thank you for the response. I am sure Pranesh will have much to say about
the notions of accessibility, that the workshop is aimed at. In the
meantime, we, at the Centre for Internet and Society, do value interest in
questions of disability and access. We have, in fact, made visual disability
and access as one of our flagship in house research project and this
workshop is indeed going to focus on it quite extensively.

I am offering you some links about the work that we have started, and would
hope that more researchers might be interested in coming up with concerns,
questions and perhaps solutions to the many abilities that we take for
granted when talking about the internet and its usage.

http://cis-india.org/search?SearchableText=Accessibility

This particular link gives you a list of all the activities we have been
doing in the field of visual disability and accessibility in the last eight
months since we started our work. You might also find it of interest to
perhaps get in touch with Nirmita Narsimhan (nirmita at cis-india.org), our
in-house research manager who is working and networking quite extensively on
this project, and is indeed one of the chief coordinators for this workshop.

Thank you, again, for your valuable feedback and interest. We shall hope
that you will be attending the workshop, in Delhi,

warm regards
Nishant

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:12 PM, taraprakash <taraprakash at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all. Thanks Pranesh for posting this invitation. I wonder how do the
> organizers define the term "accessibility". One section of the society that
> suffers from the lack of accessibility of the web and which has not been
> mentioned here is the visually challenged people.
> w3.org has certain guidelines for making web accessible to the blind but
> in
> India you are not legally bound to meet those guidelines. I wish the
> organizers do a thorrough research on this issue and address in the
> proposed
> workshop.
>
> Regards
> TaraPrakash
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>
> > Dear All,
> > Greetings from CIS.  We are organising a "Workshop for Web Developers
> > on Web Accessibility" in New Delhi from February 16th-18th, 2009. The
> > workshop will have seven trainers from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore who
> > are experienced in web accessibility issues and WCAG 2.0. The workshop
> > aims to bring together participants from government departments, NIC
> > and web developers from organisations from the private sector in
> > different parts of the country to come together and learn and share
> > basic concepts of web accessibility.  There shall be thirty
> > participants in all. The call for participation is open now on a
> > first-come-first-served basis.  There are no fees for participation.
> > Those interested may contact Nirmita Narasimhan, Programme Manager at
> > <nirmita at cis-india.org>.
> >
> > About the organizers: The Centre for Internet and Society is a
> > Bangalore based non-profit, which brings together a team of
> > practitioners, theoreticians, researchers and artists to work on the
> > emerging field of Internet and Society to critically engage with
> > concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic
> > practices, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and
> > exchange. We focus on areas such as anonymity/privacy, censorship,
> > surveillance, free and open source software, open standards, open
> > access, family, sexual practices, addiction, intellectual property
> > rights, piracy, ICT4D, digital and participation divide and digital
> > communities and movements. Please visit our website at
> > <http://www.cis-india.org> to learn more about our work.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pranesh
> >
> > --
> > Pranesh Prakash
> > Programme Manager
> > Centre for Internet and Society
> >
> > T: +91 80 40926283
> > W: http://www.cis-india.org
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Nishant Shah
Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore.
Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org )
Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09
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