- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@smart.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:59:34 -0500
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Developing with Accessibility was a unique, two-day event hosted by a U.S. Government agency. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) offered high quality training sessions for developers, collaborative coding projects, and professional networking opportunities. The objective has been to promote the concept and practice of developing mobile apps and web sites according to accepted accessibility guidelines, thereby maximizing their usability for everyone, including people with disabilities. I have posted slides and links from DevAcc at www.devacc.info It is a simple WordPress site with a separate post for each presentation at the event, including overview, presenter bio(s), and slides (usually PowerPoint or PDF files for download). There are also posts for DevAcc-related efforts shared by the community, as well as links to media stories about DevAcc. The posts are simply in the sequence of their entry, not chronology or importance. Below is a copy of a web post that may be of particular interest: information about video recordings of the presentations. Regards, Jamal From the web page http://www.devacc.info/2012/11/21/video-recordings-of-developing-with-accessibility/ Video recordings of Developing with Accessibility Thursday, September 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bQIRAf5JE0 Friday, September 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bQIRAf5JE0 Here are the scheduled presentations for each day: Thursday, September 6 8:30 a.m. Welcoming remarks Greg Elin, Chief Data Officer, FCC Karen Peltz Strauss, Deputy Bureau Chief, CGB, FCC David Robbins, Managing Director, FCC Jamal Mazrui, Deputy Director, A&I Initiative, CGB, FCC 9:00 a.m. Participant Introductions 9:30 a.m. - GSA Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, Tammi Marcoullier, Program Manager, Challenge.gov Innovation in Government through Challenge & Prize Competitions 10:15 a.m. Google Inc., David Chandler, Developer Advocate Developing Accessible Android Apps 11:00 a.m. Ephox Corporation, Tom Smith, Vice President; Michael Fromin, Director Client Services Integrating Accessibility Web Authoring Tools to Achieve Compliance More Quickly 1:15 p.m. Bottle Rocket Apps, Calvin Carter, Founder & President; Austen Green, iOS Developer Developing for Accessibility on iOS 2:00 p.m. Benetech, Gerardo Capiel, VP of Engineering Developing eReading Applications for People with Print Disabilities using the Bookshare API 2:45 p.m. - Raising the Floor, Jim Tobias, Stakeholders & Strategies The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) 3:45 p.m. Adobe, Matt May, Accessibility Evangelist Accessible Events with Adobe Connect Friday, September 7 8:30 a.m. Welcoming remarks 8:45 a.m. Participant Introductions 9:00 a.m. - U.S. Department of Labor, Xavier Hughes, Chief Innovation Officer; ODEP Employment App Challenge Winners (TBD) Advancing Employment for ALL: Innovation through Citizen Engagement 9:30 a.m. Adobe, Greg Pisocky, Accessibility Team Member EPUB and PDF Production with Adobe Tools 10:45 a.m. - FCC, Greg Elin, Chief Data Officer; Umasankar Arumugam (Computech) Accessibility Clearinghouse APIs & data 11:15 a.m. - CPC Closed Captioning, Giovanni Galvez, Technical Developer Converting TV captioning to Web Captioning 1:00 p.m. Oracle America, Inc., Marc Sewtz, Senior Software Development Manager Using Application Express to Build Highly Accessible Products 1:45 p.m. Google Inc., Adam Koch, Android Developer Advocate; Roman Nurik, Android Developer Advocate New and Important in Android 2:45 p.m. Deque Systems, Glenda Sims, Senior Accessibility Consultant; Jatin Vaishnav, Accessibility Manager FireEyes: Free Testing Tool that Gives You Accessibility Heat Vision! 3:30 p.m. DataNaut, LLC, Mark Snuffin, CEO Building cross-platform accessible applications using Qt
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