Re: [Review period] Russian WCAG 2.0 Candidate Authorized Translation

Dear all

This is to let you know that the review period for the Candidate  
Authorized Translation is extended, to accommodate for the upcoming  
Christmas break, until Monday 3 January 2011.

Coralie


On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:02:45 +0100, Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear Daniel, all
>
> A lot of work took place between last May and now. Thanks for working on  
> the Candidate Authorized Translation of WCAG20 into Russian.
>
> I am not finding your announcement on the w3c-translators@w3.org mailing  
> list, so here is the link for the benefit of all the translators in the  
> community:
>
>     <http://www.wcag.ru/guidelines/wcag20.html>
>
>
> We are now at the step in the Policy for Authorized Translation when W3C  
> initiates the review process, which will last 30 days. The review period  
> will end Sunday 19 December 2010.
>
> cf. http://www.w3.org/2005/02/TranslationPolicy.html
> [[
> 4. W3C Initiation of Review Process:
>       1. W3C announces a review period of at least 30 days of the CAT on  
> the translators' mailing list, specifying a separate, publicly archived  
> mailing list, in W3C or W3C Office Web space, to be used for commenting.
> This mailing list may be a per-language list for all CATs in that  
> language, such as public-auth-trans-hu@w3.org for any Hungarian CAT, or  
> a list specifically set up for that CAT. All comments on the CAT must be  
> sent to this list. Postings to the mailing list may either be in the  
> language of translation or in English.
>
> 5. LTO Notification of Review, Monitoring of Comments, and Revision of  
> CAT:
>      1. The LTO notifies the stakeholder organizations of the  
> availability of the CAT, the start of the review period, and the  
> existence of the mailing list for comments; directs them to send  
> comments to this mailing list; and copies this notification to the  
> general translators' mailing list.
>      2. The LTO monitors the mailing list comments; provides  
> clarification when necessary; and summarizes consensus on specific  
> issues (when possible) to help the ongoing discussion.
>      3. After the end of the review period, the LTO issues a new version  
> of the CAT as needed, and provides a list, in English and the language  
> of translation, of the points raised, and a summary of the discussions  
> during the review period, describing the problems found and solutions  
> agreed with the other reviewers. This summary must be posted both to the  
> publicly archived mailing list for this CAT, and to the general  
> translators' mailing list.
>      4. In the event that no comments or only very few comments are  
> received during the review period, the LTO ensures that a majority of  
> the reviewing organizations send email to the translators' mailing list  
> confirming that they have in fact reviewed the document, and that they  
> consider it to be an accurate translation.
>      5. The LTO then advises W3C whether a new review round is necessary  
> or not.
> ]]
>
> The dedicated mailing list has been set up for the review process:
>     public-auth-trans-ru@w3.org
>
> and the mail archive is at:
>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-auth-trans-ru/
>
> Subscription to this list can be done by sending an e-mail, with the  
> subject set to 'subscribe', to:
>    public-auth-trans-ru-request@w3.org
>
> The mailing list and the archive are public. Anybody can send an e-mail  
> to the list, apart from the fact that at the first send an anti-spam  
> "ritual" has to be followed (via an acknowledgement e-mail).
>
> We encourage you to announce this review period to facilitate comments  
>  from the public.
>
> Please, communicate this information to your partners (this is step 5.1  
> of the Policy), and ask them to subscribe to the mailing list and use it  
> for the comments. Step 5.1 requests that the general translators'  
> mailing list be copied when announcing availability of the CAT. This is  
> done right now.
>
> Best regards,
> Coralie
>
>
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:57:29 +0200, Daniel novichkov  
> <daniel.novichkov@internetbezbarierov.ru> wrote:
>
>> Dear Shadi,
>> Thank you for the reply. This week I'm announcing the CAT and getting  
>> it published at the separate URI.
>> Regards,
>> Daniel Novichkov,
>>
>> Project coordinator
>> UN information center in Moscow
>>
>> daniel.novichkov@internetbezbarierov.ru
>> Тел. +7 903 979 66 59
>>
>>
>> On May 4, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Daniel,
>>>
>>> On behalf of the W3C and of the WAI team, I am happy to notify you, as  
>>> the LTO, to proceed with the preparation of a Candidate Authorized  
>>> Translation of WCAG 2.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/) into Russian.
>>>
>>> We are now at step 3 of the policy for Authorized W3C Translations
>>> (http://www.w3.org/2005/02/TranslationPolicy.html).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Shadi Abou-Zahra (in lieu of Coralie Mercier)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ |
>>>  WAI International Program Office Activity Lead   |
>>> W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12.04.2010 14:46, Daniel novichkov wrote:
>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>> UN Information Center in Moscow is looking forward to being the LTO  
>>>> for an authorized translation WCAG 2.0 to Russian. UN Information  
>>>> Center in Moscow is one of the most active advocates of the access of  
>>>> people with disabilities to Information and Communication  
>>>> Technologies, being the founder of the Friends of Convention of  
>>>> Rights of People with Disabilities Club, uniting government, NGO and  
>>>> commercial sector to promote universal access to information and  
>>>> Internet in particular.
>>>>
>>>> The group of stakeholders (below) is ready to contribute in reviewing  
>>>> the volunteer translation developed by Daniel Novichkov  
>>>> (http://accessibility.ru/docs/WCAG20Russian031109.html)
>>>>
>>>> Herewith the list of stakeholders:
>>>>
>>>> Aksenova Ekaterina
>>>> General director
>>>> Strateg Agency
>>>> Web-site developer sites
>>>> Development of e-government web-sites.
>>>> Moscow, Aremyansky pereulok 9/1, офис 11
>>>> aksenova.katerina@gmail.com
>>>> Gov-gov.ru
>>>>
>>>> Eugene Altovsky
>>>> Head of Information and Analytical Services, member of the Board of  
>>>> NGO "Information for All
>>>> NGO “Information for All" is Interregional public organization in  
>>>> supporting building the Information Society "Information for All "
>>>> The program "ICT for endless possibilities" aims to disseminate  
>>>> information about the availability of information and communication  
>>>> technologies (ICT) for people with disabilities.
>>>> Russia, 121096, Moscow, POB 44
>>>> pr@ifap.ru
>>>> www.ifap.ru
>>>>
>>>> Bondarenko Marta
>>>>
>>>> Junior researcher of the laboratory of content and methods for  
>>>> teaching children with impaired vision within the Correctional  
>>>> Pedagogical Institute, teacher for visually impaired people,  
>>>> orientation and mobility trainer
>>>>
>>>> Institute of Correctional Pedagogics
>>>> Education and rehabilitation of persons with impaired vision
>>>> Institute is founded in 1929. Specialists of the Institute developed  
>>>> a complex medical psychological and pedagogical approach to research  
>>>> and complex rehabilitation (education, instruction, development,  
>>>> socialization etc) of children with health disabilities. Through its  
>>>> research work the Institute developed the Russian special  
>>>> differentiate educational system for children with disabilities (at  
>>>> late sixties). Among specialists of the Institute there are doctors  
>>>> of science, corresponding members, academician in different sciences  
>>>> such as physiology and physician, ophthalmologist, psychiatrists,  
>>>> neuropathologiststs,  child psychologists, sign language teachers,  
>>>> teachers for visually impaired children, orthophonists, teachers for  
>>>> oligophrenic children.
>>>> The Institute is a Russian resource center for preparing specialized  
>>>> teachers.
>>>> Participation of the Institute's representatives in work on WCAG 2.0  
>>>> will allow to attract scientific researches to the work and revise  
>>>> WCAG 2.0 according to the highest standards of the scientific  
>>>> literature.
>>>> Russia, 119121, Moscow, Pogodinskaya st., 8, k.1
>>>> bondarenko@ikprao.ru
>>>> ikprao.ru
>>>>
>>>> Burkanov Yuri
>>>> Expert on accessibility of Web content
>>>> www.userarc.de
>>>> Developer sites
>>>> Mr. Burkanov participated in the preparation of standards for  
>>>> accessibility in Germany. Participated in the development and  
>>>> improvement of accessibility of websites of government institutions  
>>>> in Germany. Trainer on web-accessibility, athor of articles on  
>>>> web-accessibility issues.
>>>> Carl-Justi-Str. 21 53121 Bonn, Deutschland
>>>> Jurij Burkanov<jurij@burkanov.com>
>>>> www.userarc.de
>>>>
>>>> Dmitry Vasiliev
>>>> General Director
>>>> NetСat
>>>> CMS Developer
>>>> NetСat works in close cooperation with the community of visually  
>>>> impaired internet users.
>>>> NetСat is a unique Russian CMS adapted to web-site development and  
>>>> web-site maintenance by visually impaired developers.
>>>> NetСat is the web-accessibility advocate among russian software  
>>>> developers
>>>> 109004, Moscow, Alexandra Solzhenitsyn street 31,
>>>> building 2.
>>>> info@netcat.ru
>>>> www.netcat.ru
>>>>
>>>> Virin Fedor
>>>> Research Director
>>>> Mail.ru
>>>> Russia's largest provider of free e-mail.
>>>> Mail.ru is the leading Russian company working in the field of online  
>>>> communications and entertainment. Its key asset is the major  
>>>> communication portal of Russian Internet. It includes the largest in  
>>>> Russia and CIS free email service, a leading Russian  
>>>> Instant-Messenger Mail.ru Agent, national social network  
>>>> Moimir@Mail.ru, search engine Poisk@ Mail.ru and many other resources.
>>>> Mail.ru is the leader in online gaming; it controls more than 50% of  
>>>> the Russian online gaming market. Mail.ru is publisher of more than  
>>>> 40 gaming online projects in Russia, Europe and Asia, including such  
>>>> popular games of its own design, as “Troetsarstvie”, “Legenda:  
>>>> Nasledia drakonov”, “Allody Online”, and promoter of several  
>>>> successful foreign licensed games, in particular, “Perfect world” and  
>>>> “Lord of rings Online”. Mail.ru owns 50% of the company  
>>>> Nikita.online. Mail.ru has 8 Russian offices in Moscow, St.  
>>>> Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk,  
>>>> Samara and Kazan, office in Ukraine (Kiev) and Germany (Hamburg).
>>>> fedorvirin@gmail.com
>>>> www.mail.ru
>>>>
>>>> Alexander Gorelik
>>>> Director
>>>> UN Information Centre in Moscow
>>>> UN Information center in Moscow is advocate for promotion of  
>>>> information and communication technologies for people with  
>>>> disabilities in Russia.
>>>> UN Information center founded the Club of friends of Convention of  
>>>> rights of people with disabilities. The Club regularly gathers  
>>>> representatives of different government, non-government and  
>>>> commercial organizations, who share information about their  
>>>> activities in promoting ICT for people with disabilities.
>>>> UN Information center serves also as a resource center and a  
>>>> specialized library on ICT for people with disabilities.
>>>> Moscow 119002, Glazovsky pereulok
>>>> director@unic.ru
>>>> unic.ru
>>>>
>>>> Hienadz Drahun
>>>> Usability and web-accessibility expert
>>>> wargaming.net , EPAM
>>>> Mr. Dragun is consultant of the usability and accessibility of  
>>>> web-interfaces. He took part in translating WCAG 2.0 into Russian  
>>>> language.
>>>> 220028, Republic of Belarus
>>>> Libavo-Romenskaya street, 23, buildong 9, office10
>>>> wargaming.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yershova Tatiana
>>>> General director
>>>> Institute of development of the information society
>>>> Editor in chief
>>>> Research and analytical magazine "Information Society"
>>>> A member of the high-level advisers group
>>>> Global Alliance for ICT for Development
>>>> Autonomous nonprofit organization "Institute of the Information  
>>>> Society" (IRIO)
>>>> IRIO is independent research and service providing organization  
>>>> founded on Sept. 7, 1998 at the initiative of renowned experts in the  
>>>> field of information technology, telecommunications and information  
>>>> policy, united by the idea of information society development in  
>>>> Russia.
>>>> The stated goal of the Institute are:
>>>> Formation and development of information society in Russia,  
>>>> integration of Russia into the global information society, creating  
>>>> conditions for effective interaction between the parties of the  
>>>> information society, creating conditions for fair competition in the  
>>>> communications and information market, as well as development of  
>>>> information resources, technologies, infrastructure and services. The  
>>>> main objectives of the Institute are: research and development in the  
>>>> field of information society and knowledge economy;
>>>> development and examination of draft laws and other normative acts  
>>>> aimed at the development of information society and knowledge  
>>>> economy, the political, socio-economic and scientific-technical  
>>>> forecasting of the Information Society; expertise, development and  
>>>> implementation of the programs and projects aimed at developing  
>>>> information society and Knowledge Economy; dissemination of  
>>>> knowledge, including creation and dissemination of print, electronic,  
>>>> audio and video materials on the Information Society issues,  
>>>> promoting international cooperation in development of information  
>>>> society and knowledge economy.
>>>>  1. Contribution in creating the information system "Pravozaschitnik"  
>>>> (Human rights advocate): The project was realized in 1999 by the  
>>>> American NGO Freedom Channel Inc in cooperation with the Russian NGO  
>>>> "Human rights advocates internship", within the grant №98-20.0  
>>>> delivered by the Democracy Support Foundation (USA). All the  
>>>> technical work of the project was fulfilled  by the team of  
>>>> developers of the IRIO. The system was designed to store and deliver  
>>>> criminal records and comments of experts to users on the base of  
>>>> their requests.
>>>> 2. Legislative projects of the IRIO:
>>>> - Comparative analysis of legislation regulating the processes of  
>>>> creating and using information resources in the Russian Federation.  
>>>> Project included experts analysis ordered by the Moscow City Duma  
>>>> (2000).
>>>> - City of Moscow law development "On Information Resources and  
>>>> Informatization of Moscow". The law was developed by the Institute on  
>>>> request of the Moscow City Duma and the Moscow Government in  
>>>> conjunction with the Public Expert Council of the Moscow City Duma  
>>>> within the programme of "Information, informatization,  
>>>> communications, telecommunications and television in 2000-2001. The  
>>>> law was adopted by the Moscow City Duma on October 24, 2001 (№ 52).
>>>> - Development of the law "On guarantees of the accessibility of  
>>>> information about Moscow City authorities' activities" aimed to  
>>>> fulfill the rights of citizens on accessing the information  
>>>> concerning decisions of the city authorities. The law was designed by  
>>>> IRIO experts in cooperation with the expert board of Moscow City Duma  
>>>> within the programme of "Information, information technologies,  
>>>> telecommunications and television" in 2001-2003. The law was adopted  
>>>> by the Moscow City Duma on March 31, 2004 (№ 20).
>>>> 3. The draft model law "About the Internet" - developed by the  
>>>> Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) and the  
>>>> Institute of the Information Society Development, commissioned by the  
>>>> Inter-parliamentary Assembly of CIS member states. As part of this  
>>>> work a review of legislation on regulation of the Internet in the CIS  
>>>> countries was also prepared. This law project was reviewed at the  
>>>> meeting of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy on  
>>>> January 29, 2008, and it attracted a wide public attention.
>>>> 4. Research and analysis of federal government bodies' web sites and  
>>>> websites of local government entities for compliance with the  
>>>> requirements of the Federal Law on February 9, 2009 № 8-FZ "On  
>>>> ensuring access to information about the activities of state bodies  
>>>> and local self-government." The project was commissioned by the  
>>>> Ministry of Economic Development and completed in 2009; the project  
>>>> resulted in:
>>>> - developing the survey methodology (monitoring) of the official  
>>>> websites of the Russian Federation regions for compliance with  
>>>> Russian legislation, including methods of examination;
>>>> - Developing a questionnaire to survey existing regional official  
>>>> government websites;
>>>> - Conducting the survey (monitoring) of existing regional official  
>>>> government websites by the group of experts and processing its  
>>>> results;
>>>> - The analysis of survey results. Short description of activities in  
>>>> the field of accessibility and / or disabiliies:
>>>> 1. Participation in the establishment of an information system "human  
>>>> rights activist. The project was completed in 1999, an American  
>>>> non-profit organization Freedom Channel, Inc. in cooperation with the  
>>>> Russian human rights organization Human Rights Defenders Training "by  
>>>> the Foundation for Democracy (USA) under grant № 98-20.0. All the  
>>>> technical part of the project was completed a team of developers  
>>>> IRIO. The system is designed for storing and reporting on requests  
>>>> polzovaley criminal records of the comments of experts.
>>>> 2. Legislative IRIO projects:
>>>> - Comparative analysis of regulatory legislation governing the  
>>>> processes of creating and using information resources in the Russian  
>>>> Federation - the expert work of the Institute commissioned by the  
>>>> Moscow City Duma (2000).
>>>> - Development of the Law of the City of Moscow "On Information  
>>>> Resources and Information City of Moscow" - developed by the  
>>>> Institute commissioned by the Moscow City Duma and the Moscow  
>>>> Government in conjunction with the Public Expert Council of the MHD  
>>>> in the direction of "Information, information, communications,  
>>>> telecommunications and television in 2000-2001. Adopted by the Moscow  
>>>> City Duma on October 24, 2001 (№ 52).
>>>> - Development of the Law "On guarantees of the availability of  
>>>> information on the activities of public authorities in Moscow, aimed  
>>>> at ensuring legal rights of citizens to information on decisions of  
>>>> the authorities of the city - IRIO developed jointly with the public  
>>>> expert council of the MHD in the direction of" Information,  
>>>> information, communications, telecommunications and Television in  
>>>> 2001-2003. Adopted by the Moscow City Duma on March 31, 2004 (№ 20).
>>>> 3. The draft model law "On the Internet" - developed by the Russian  
>>>> Association of Electronic Communications (RAEK) and the Institute of  
>>>> the Information Society commissioned by the Interparliamentary  
>>>> Assembly of CIS member states. As part of the work was also prepared  
>>>> a review of legislation on regulation of the Internet in the CIS. The  
>>>> bill was considered at the meeting of the Federation Council  
>>>> Commission on Information Policy of 29 January 2008 and attracted a  
>>>> wide public attention.
>>>> 4. Research and analysis of federal government bodies' web sites and  
>>>> websites of local government entities for compliance with the  
>>>> requirements of the Federal Law on February 9, 2009 № 8-FZ "On  
>>>> ensuring access to information about the activities of state bodies  
>>>> and local self-government." The project was commissioned by the  
>>>> Ministry of Economic Development and completed in 2009; the project  
>>>> resulted in:
>>>> - developing the survey methodology (monitoring) of the official  
>>>> websites of the Russian Federation regions for compliance with  
>>>> Russian legislation, including methods of examination;
>>>> - Developing a questionnaire to survey existing regional official  
>>>> government websites;
>>>> - Conducting the survey (monitoring) of existing regional official  
>>>> government websites by the group of experts and processing its  
>>>> results;
>>>> - The analysis of survey results.
>>>> 101000, Moscow, Post Office, PO Box 716
>>>> tatiana.ershova@iis.ru
>>>> http://www.iis.ru
>>>>
>>>> Kamynin Anatoly
>>>> Coordinator
>>>> Tiflokomp
>>>> Self-organization of computer users with disabilities
>>>> Tiflocomp.ru is a website on "Computer Technology for the Blind and  
>>>> Visually Impaired" is a unique resource that covers the technical  
>>>> issues of using computer by visually impaired users. Its developers  
>>>> and users are leading experts in the field of Web accessibility and  
>>>> technical means of rehabilitation.
>>>> 443114 Samara, G.Dimitrova street 52 appt 60.
>>>> kamy@nm.ru
>>>> www.tiflocomp.ru
>>>>
>>>> Kipchatov Igor
>>>> Head of Resource Centre
>>>> ROOI "Perspective"
>>>> ROOI "Perspectiva"
>>>> Our mission is to achieve the full inclusion of people with  
>>>> disabilities in all aspects of social life and improve their quality  
>>>> of life by:
>>>> - Changing negative attitudes and stereotypes that exist in society  
>>>> towards people with disabilities;
>>>> - Improving the efficiency of NGOs of disabled persons;
>>>> - Assisting people with disabilities and their families in acquiring  
>>>> skills and knowledge needed to participate fully in social life and  
>>>> to gain access to inclusive education and employment;
>>>> - Training of specialists, government officials, parents, students,  
>>>> employers and other members of society about disabilities in order to  
>>>> overcome physical and psychological barriers faced by people with  
>>>> disabilities.
>>>> Organization Perspektiva is an active promoter and defender of the  
>>>> rights of people with disabilities on the use of information and  
>>>> communication technologies. Perspektiva provides a number of  
>>>> services, including those on the Internet in order to disseminate  
>>>> information technologies for implementation in the process of  
>>>> education and rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
>>>> 119021 Moscow, Timura Frunze st, 16 building 3
>>>> kipchatov@perspektiva-inva.ru
>>>> perspektiva-inva.ru
>>>>
>>>> Kudrov Nikolay
>>>> Head of Educational Programs
>>>> Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation
>>>> Ministry of Communications is the state agency responsible for  
>>>> development of information and communication technologies in Russia
>>>> Ministry of Communications is the responsible body for the promotion  
>>>> and development of information and communications, including Internet  
>>>> technologies.
>>>> Participation of the Ministry will enhance recognition of WCAG 2.0 in  
>>>> Russia, and will help to proofread the document in accordance with  
>>>> the accepted standards of public policies in the field of Internet  
>>>> technologies.
>>>> 125375 Moscow, Tverskaya Street 7
>>>> nikolai@kudrov.biz
>>>> http://minkomsvjaz.ru /
>>>>
>>>> Lysenko, Alexander E.
>>>> Head of chair of Rehabilitology PKI DSZN, PhD, Associate Professor
>>>>  Moscow Institute for training managers' and specialists' of social  
>>>> protection of population
>>>> Main goals of the Institute are:
>>>>  - Professional retraining and capacities building for managers and  
>>>> professionals of the system of social protection
>>>>  - Research, analysis and dissemination of the best practices of  
>>>> social protection and social services in Moscow and other Russian  
>>>> regions, and abroad;
>>>>  - Implementation of innovative technologies to provide social  
>>>> services as means to promote the improvement of social services and  
>>>> improving people's lives;
>>>> - Organization and conducting surveys, scientific and methodological  
>>>> conferences, seminars and symposia to raise awareness of the  
>>>> professional community and the general public to the acute social  
>>>> problems, finding ways, methods and technologies to address them;
>>>>  - Analysis of international experience of social services aiming to  
>>>> its adaptation and dissemination within the system of social  
>>>> protection of the population of the city of Moscow;
>>>>  - Exchange of information with the organizers and researchers of  
>>>> social protection system abroad;
>>>> - Development and production of educational, methodical, analytical  
>>>> and reference materials, including those in electronic form.
>>>> Participation PKI DSZN in work on WCAG 2.0 will involve educational  
>>>> resources of the Institute to enhance methodical part of  
>>>> rehabilitation technology, and will help to spread the idea of  
>>>> web-accessibility among professionals working in rehabilitation and  
>>>> social protection system.
>>>> aleksandr-lysenko@yandex.ru
>>>> http://ipk.dszn.ru /
>>>>
>>>> Alexei Lyubimov
>>>> Researcher of the laboratory of content and methods for teaching  
>>>> children with impaired vision within the Correctional Pedagogical  
>>>> Institute, teacher for visually impaired people, orientation and  
>>>> mobility trainer
>>>> Institute of Correctional Pedagogics
>>>> Education and rehabilitation of people with visual impairments.
>>>> The Institute was founded in 1929 (Current title of the Institute is  
>>>> since 1992). Specialists of the Institute developed complex medical  
>>>> psychological and pedagogical approach to research and complex  
>>>> rehabilitation (education, instruction, development, socialization  
>>>> etc) of children with health disabilities. Through its research work  
>>>> the Institute developed the Russian special differentiate educational  
>>>> system for children with disabilities (at late sixties). Among  
>>>> specialists of the Institute there are doctors of science,  
>>>> corresponding members, academicians in different sciences such as  
>>>> physiology; physicians, ophthalmologists, psychiatrists,  
>>>> neuropathologiststs,  child psychologists, sign language teachers,  
>>>> teachers for visually impaired children, orthophonists, teachers for  
>>>> oligophrenic children. The Institute is a Russian resource center for  
>>>> preparing specialized teachers.
>>>> Participation of the Institute's representatives in work on WCAG 2.0  
>>>> will allow to attract scientific researches to the work and revise it  
>>>> according to the highest standards of the scientific literature.
>>>> Russia, 119121, Moscow, Pogodinskaya st., 8, b.1
>>>> alexey@lyubimov.su
>>>> http://www.ikprao.ru/
>>>>
>>>> Vadim Makeyev
>>>> Web-evangelist
>>>> Opera Software
>>>> Software Developer
>>>> Leading specialist in the field of web standards in Russia. Founder  
>>>> of the Russian web-standards community. Participation of Mr. Makeyev  
>>>> will involve the community of professionals of web design into work  
>>>> and promotion on WCAG 2.0
>>>> pepelsbey@gmail.com
>>>> www.opera.com
>>>>
>>>> Serguei A. Novikov
>>>> coordinator of the OUR RIGHTS Russian social movement of the disabled  
>>>> people, deputy of editor-in-chief of the REPRO Braille Publishers Ltd
>>>> NGO "Our right"
>>>> Self-organization of people with visual disabilities
>>>> A social movement (self-organisation of disabled activists,  
>>>> campaigning in coalition and cooperation with other organisations for  
>>>> active rehabilitation and integration of the disabled people, for  
>>>> their real access to education and employment, and, among other  
>>>> things, for accessibility of the Internet for the blind as well as of  
>>>> all the soft in general.
>>>> 1-1-126, Kharkovskaya str., Moscow, 117403, Russia.
>>>> s.novikov@nashepravo.org, serguei@birulevo.net
>>>> http://www.nashepravo.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Popko Anatoly
>>>> Head of the Information service of the Institute “REHACOMP”
>>>> NGO "REHACOMP"
>>>> Educational and rehabilitation institution
>>>> Institute Reakomp " is the leading institution of Russian Society for  
>>>> the Blind providing a comprehensive rehabilitation of visually  
>>>> impaired people, conducting scientific and methodological work and  
>>>> promoting information technology. It was founded in 2000. Institute  
>>>> Rehakomp of the Russian Society of the Blind is a unique institution  
>>>> providing a comprehensive rehabilitation of the disabled persons  
>>>> using computer tiflotechnologies, training and skills development,  
>>>> implementing new scientific and pedagogical approaches to  
>>>> rehabilitation and education of people with serious visual  
>>>> impairments. The Institute is the only institution in Russia,  
>>>> carrying out a comprehensive support and integration into society of  
>>>> people with combined pathology (blind and deaf); Institute prepares  
>>>> interpreters and social workers this group of people with  
>>>> disabilities.
>>>> Address: 129090 Russia, Moscow, Protopopovsky pereolok., 9
>>>> ad.popko@gmail.com
>>>> http://www.rehacomp.ru /
>>>>
>>>> Romanov, Gennady Ivanovich
>>>> Deputy director
>>>> SUE Standartinform, developer of Russian national standards
>>>> Government agency responsible for developing national technical  
>>>> standards
>>>> Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Standartinform" performs: Creation  
>>>> and maintenance of Federal Information Facility of technical  
>>>> regulations and standards; coordination of work on the establishment  
>>>> and functioning of a unified information system for technical  
>>>> regulation; official publications, registration, publication of  
>>>> national standards of the Russian Federation; Russian  
>>>> classifiers,translation of international and regional standards,  
>>>> standards of the leading countries of the world; maintenance and  
>>>> development of the State Service of Standard Reference Data on  
>>>> physical constants and properties of substances and materials,  
>>>> providing users with paper and electronic copies of technical  
>>>> regulations and national standards of the Russian Federation, Russian  
>>>> classifiers of technical data, economic and social information,  
>>>> international (Regional) and standards of other countries and their  
>>>> translations. Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Standartinform"    
>>>> serves as: a national
>>> information center of the international network of ISO (ISONET);  
>>> information service, controlling fulfillment of the provisions of the  
>>> Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the Agreement on the  
>>> Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the World Trade  
>>> Organization;
>>>> 123995, K-1, GSP-5, Moscow, Granatny pereulok 4, Russian Federation.
>>>> romanov@gostinfo.ru
>>>> http://www.gostinfo.ru /
>>>>
>>>> Sarviro Julia
>>>> Manager of Social Projects
>>>> Microsoft
>>>> Software Developer
>>>> Microsoft aims to create an environment in which everyone can unlock  
>>>> his/her professional and creative potential. Microsoft includes  
>>>> special features and affordable technologies in its software  
>>>> products. In addition, Microsoft provides the compatibility of their  
>>>> products with assistive technologies of other companies and supports  
>>>> developers in creation of such products. In this context, issues of  
>>>> accessibility of Web content for all have a special significance. A  
>>>> set of initiatives of Microsoft is helping people with disabilities  
>>>> overcome barriers and expand personal and professional horizons.
>>>> 121614, Russia, Moscow, Krylatskaya street, 17
>>>> i-jusarv@microsoft.com
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/ru/ru/default.aspx
>>>>
>>>> Segalovich Ilya
>>>> Technical Director
>>>> Yandex
>>>> Leading search engine in Russian Federation
>>>> Yandex as the leader of the IT market in Russia sets certain  
>>>> standards of quality of the user interfaces. The company has created  
>>>> a special version of its search engine for the blind and visually  
>>>> impaired users (http://large.yandex.ru). In addition, new and  
>>>> existing Yandex products are regularly tested with the involvement of  
>>>> users with disabilities. Participation of a representative of Yandex  
>>>> in the work on WCAG 2.0 will attract the best practices of search  
>>>> technologies, and will help to promote WCAG within the Russian  
>>>> segment of the Internet.
>>>> 119021, Moscow, st. Leo Tolstoy, 16
>>>> iseg@yandex-team.ru
>>>> www.yandex.ru
>>>>
>>>> Andrew Sikorski
>>>> Senior Usability Specialist
>>>> USABILITYLAB LLC
>>>> Research Company
>>>> USABILITYLAB LLC is the leader in user experience research  involving  
>>>> user and usability market. USABILITYLAB was the first company who  
>>>> worked on improvement of specifically web-accessibility of the  
>>>> Russian UN Mission http://www.unrussia.ru /; USABILITYLAB conducted  
>>>> also several seminars dedicated exclusively to web-accessibility  
>>>> issues.
>>>> a.sickorsky@usabilitylab.net
>>>> www.usabilitylab.ru
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Smolnikov Ivan
>>>> Director
>>>> ABBYY Language Services
>>>> ABBYY Language Services is a hi-tech company providing end-to-end  
>>>> linguistic services.
>>>> ABBYY Language Services offers comprehensive language services to  
>>>> corporate customers, and also develops and implements innovative  
>>>> linguistic services and technology.
>>>> More than 900 clients from all over the world have entrusted ABBYY  
>>>> Language Services with their linguistic tasks.
>>>> ABBYY Language Services is part of ABBYY Group, a leading provider of  
>>>> software and services in the field of text recognition, data capture,  
>>>> linguistics and translation.
>>>> ABBYY’s primary focus is in the development of artificial  
>>>> intelligence technology, enabling the conversion of text and images  
>>>> from paper into data in an accessible electronic format. Millions of  
>>>> people and thousands of organizations all over the world save time,  
>>>> effort and money by using technology for automatic data entry and  
>>>> processing documents. ABBYY is the creator of renowned electronic  
>>>> dictionaries ABBYY Lingvo and text recognition system ABBYY  
>>>> FineReader. More than 30 million people in 130 countries use ABBYY  
>>>> products.
>>>> On the Russian market ABBYY is a unique company − a leader both in  
>>>> linguistic technology and services.
>>>> ABBYY software is well-known in the community of users with limited  
>>>> abilities.
>>>> ABBYY’s solutions in optical text recognition facilitate access to  
>>>> printed information for the blind and visually impaired. One of the  
>>>> company’s key technologies, ABBYY FineReader, is used in systems that  
>>>> convert text into Braille and in special OpenBook™ devices for the  
>>>> blind, that scans and converts text into speech. It is noteworthy,  
>>>> that the origins of the automatic text recognition technology are  
>>>> historically tied in with the appearance of the first reading devices  
>>>> for the blind, invented in 1809 (in the same year as Louis Braille  
>>>> was born).
>>>> The participation of the ABBYY Language Services team will help  
>>>> ensure a high quality of WCAG20 translation into Russian.
>>>> Postal address:
>>>> Moscow, Metro Otradnoe, ul. Otradnaya, 2B, Building 6, Business  
>>>> Centre Otradniy
>>>> E-mail
>>>> info@abbyy-ls.ru
>>>> Website:
>>>> www.ABBYY-ls.ru, www.ABBYY.ru, www.ABBYYOnline.ru
>>>>
>>>> Tokareva Natalia
>>>> Senior Specialist, Division of Policy and Research
>>>> UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)
>>>> IITE UNESCO aims at strengthening capacities of Member States of  
>>>> UNESCO in the field of information and communication technologies  
>>>> (ICT) in education.
>>>> One of the priorities of the Institute is to develop a project for  
>>>> creation and dissemination of effective educational strategies  
>>>> associated with the use of ICT in education of people with  
>>>> disabilities. Since 1999 the Institute held a series of international  
>>>> meetings, developed and published analytical, information and  
>>>> training materials, as well as organized seven international training  
>>>> seminars attended by over 200 experts from 11 countries.
>>>> As part of the project implemented by the Institute in conjunction  
>>>> with international experts from the UK, Italy, Australia, Spain,  
>>>> Denmark and Iceland a specialized training course "ICTs in education  
>>>> for people with special needs" (in Russian and English) has been  
>>>> developed; the course covers theoretical and practical aspects of ICT  
>>>> use in educating persons with motor, visual, auditory, speech and  
>>>> intellectual disabilities.
>>>> 117292, Moscow, St. Kedrova, 8, k.3
>>>> n.tokareva@unesco.org
>>>> www.iite.ru
>>>>
>>>> Urussowa Yana
>>>> Vice Director of Marketkompas, project coordinator of Bezgraniz.com
>>>> Portal "Bezgranits" (Without borders)
>>>> bezgraniz.ru is the first international web portal for people with  
>>>> disabilities and chronic conditions, their families and friends,  
>>>> professionals and helping organizations.
>>>> The project bezgraniz.com is a system integrator of online and  
>>>> offline solutions in the sphere of employment, education, universal  
>>>> design, travel, music and the arts, sports, fashion, etc. The project  
>>>> aims to bring together private initiatives of persons with  
>>>> disabilities, researchers, students, politicians, government  
>>>> officials, NGOs and other parties for addressing the pressing issues  
>>>> facing the state and society in connection with the provisions of the  
>>>> “UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.”
>>>> 115191 Moscow, 4th Roshinsky pr-d, 19, office 908
>>>> urussowa@marketkompas.ru
>>>> www.bezgraniz.ru
>>>>
>>>> Shevkun Oleg
>>>> Leading specialist
>>>> Elite Group Inc., Fredom Scientific
>>>> Developer of specialized software for visually impaired users
>>>> Freedom Scientific is the largest worldwide manufacturer of assistive  
>>>> technology products for those who are blind or have low vision.  
>>>> Freedom Scientific is also the only company with a complete line of  
>>>> products for those with vision impairments. All of these products are  
>>>> tested and guaranteed to work together. Freedom Scientific has been  
>>>> in business for over ten years and its products are sold in 55  
>>>> countries and translated into 24 languages.
>>>> 119313, Moscow, Russia
>>>> Leninsky Prospekt, 87,
>>>> Hotel "Southern", Office 450
>>>> oleg@shevkun.org
>>>> http://www.elitagroup.ru/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Project coordinator
>>>> UN Information center in Moscow
>>>>
>>>> daniel.novichkov@internetbezbarierov.ru
>>>> Тел. +7 903 979 66 59
>


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