and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Time
Topic
8h15 – 9h10
REGISTRATION
9h15 – 9h30
Welcome addresses by:
Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU-T/TSB, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
9h30 – 10h00
Moderator: Mr. Wei Lei, Chief Information Officer, Information Communication &
Technology Department, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Topic 1: Accessibility and Disability – A History of Innovation
Speaker: Mr. Artur Ortega, Accessibility Evangelist, Yahoo!
10h00 – 10h20
Coffee Break
10h20 – 11h00
Topic 2: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) – Key Concepts
Speaker: Mr. Shadi Abou Zahra, Activity Lead, W3C/WAI International Program Office,
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
11h00 – 11h40
11h40 – 12h10
12h10 – 12h30
Topic 3: Mobile Web Best Practice & WCAG 2.0: can you spot the difference?
Speaker: Mr. Phil Archer, Training Lead, W3C Mobile Web Initiative
Topic 4: Universal Design for Web Applications Speaker: Mr. Matt May, Accessibility Engineer, Adobe
Q & A/Discussion
12h30 – 14h00
Lunch
14h05 – 15h25
Topic: Sharing accessibility experiences:
Moderator: Mr. Anders Norsker, Chief, Information Services Department, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Mr. Federico Galati, Web Solutions Manager, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Mrs. Antonella Quacchia, Head of Web Policy and Development Unit, International Labor Organization (ILO)
Mrs. Jane Wallace, Web Manager, World Health Organization (WHO)
Mrs. Fanny Langella, Associate Website Officer/Accessibilty Focal Point (UN New York)
15h25 – 15h45
Coffee Break
15h45 – 16h25
16h25 – 16h45
16h45 – 17h00
Juan Castro, Web Officer, Strategic Planning and Membership Department, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Mrs. Victoria Menezes Miller, Web Systems Officer, Internet Services Section, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Introduction - testing within the lifecycle of a website, standards and guidelines, overview of automated, manual and user testing.
10h30 – 10h50
Coffee break
10h50 – 12h00
Practical examples focusing on manual testing with references to automated testing (covering page structure).
12h00 – 13h30
Lunch
13h30 – 15h00
Practical examples focusing on manual testing with references to automated testing (covering page content and presentation).
15h00 – 15h20
Coffee break
15h20 – 16h15
Practical examples focusing on manual testing with references to automated testing (covering user interaction and expected behavior).
Friday, February 5, 2010
Accessible Rich Internet Applications / Understand and use WAI-ARIA
Time
Topic
8h45 – 09h10
REGISTRATION
9h15 – 10h30
Trainer: Mr. Andrew Ronksley, Web Accessibility Consultant, Royal National Institute
of Blind People (RNIB)
JavaScript Widgets and AJAX - what are the accessibility problems?
10h30 – 10h50
Coffee break
10h50 – 12h00
ARIA Markup - an overview of the ARIA specification and the new attributes that can be added to markup to improve accessibility.
12h00 – 13h30
Lunch
13h30 – 15h00
ARIA Markup continued. ARIA Tools - learn about some of the tools available to help you investigate and test ARIA implementations. Live Examples - see example widgets being read through a screen reader both with and without ARIA markup to see and hear the difference between them.
15h00 – 15h20
Coffee break
15h20 – 16h15
The future for ARIA - learn about where ARIA currently is and how support is coming along in browsers, assistive technologies and popular JavaScript frameworks.
16h15 – 16h30
Closing of the Workshop; Jarle Martinsen, Head, User Services Division, Information Services Department (IS)
