Research and Development Interest
Group
Agenda: Teleconference on Making Visualizations of Complex Information
Accessible for People with Disabilities
28 June 2004 - 14:00 UTC [10:00 New York, 15:00 London, 23:00 Tokyo]
Agenda
- Chair's Opening Remarks
- Keynote: Kent Cullers, SETI Institute (Cullers slides)
- Panelist introductions and summaries of position papers
- Al Gilman, Trace R&D Center
- Mayer Max, Sharkatech Research
- Position paper: Haptic or “Touch-Enabled” Imagery
on the Web Enables Vision Impaired and Cognitively Challenged
Individuals to Become Investors, Teachers and Guides for
“Profoundly Visual” Individuals through Images of:
Lakefront Property, through Geography Lessons and Tours of
National Parks
- Max
slides
- Ed Sims, VCom3d
- Lisa Seeman, UBAccess
- Dirk Willhun and Yannick Saillet, IBM Deutschland
- Haixia Zhao and Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland
- Discussion
- Conclusion and Next Steps
Additional Positions Papers
Event Information
The teleconference will take place on Monday, 28 June 2004 at 14:00 UTC
[10:00 New York, 15:00 London, 23:00 Tokyo]. To determine the time in your
location, refer to TimeAndDate.com.
Call is limited to 40 participants.
- Duration: 2 hours.
- Structure: Seven brief presentations with Web-based presentation
materials followed by moderated panel discussion.
- Captioning: Caption
Colorado will provide realtime captioning of the teleconference call.
Users of the service only need a computer with an Internet connection to
view the transcript.
- Asking questions during the call: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and email
will be available to ask questions during the teleconference call.
- Submitting questions in advance: Questions for discussion may be
submitted by email to the chair, Mark Hakinnen, at any time before
the teleconference.
Timeline
- 14 June - Registration closed (we reached capacity)
- 22 June - Call-in and caption information sent to first 40
registrants
- 28 June - Event at 14:00 UTC [10:00 New York, 15:00 London, 23:00
Tokyo]
- 23 July - Proceedings available and announced to WAI Interest Group
(w3c-wai-ig), the RDIG mailing list (public-wai-rd@w3.org), the W3C Home
Page and Newsletter, and registrants of the teleconference.
About the Research and Development Interest Group
The mission of the Research and Development Interest Group (RDIG) is
- to increase the number of Web-related researchers who incorporate
accessibility into their research design,
- and to identify projects researching Web accessibility, and suggest
techniques that may contribute to new projects.
The desired outcome of more research in Web accessibility and awareness of
accessibility in mainstream Web-related research should decrease the number
of potential barriers in future Web-related technologies.
We welcome participation in the interest group and are seeking new
participants to help plan our next teleconference. Possible topics
include:
- virtual reality markup languages,
- e-commerce,
- digital TV,
- agents,
- mobile technologies,
- intellectual property rights and security issues,
- affordability,
- adaptability,
- internationalization,
- semantic web,
- distance learning,
- collaborative environments,
- assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
If you are interested in participating in the RDIG or future discussions,
please contact Markku Hakkinen or Wendy Chisholm.
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$Date: 2004/06/28 14:35:51 $ Wendy
Chisholm