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Techshare India, 2008 Breaking the Barriers is the first accessibility conference and exhibition in India that will highlight the needs of people with disabilities. It will showcase the role of technology in the lives of people with disabilities, looking not just at web accessibility but also software accessibility, and accessibility on the move for mobiles and PDAs. In addition, Techshare India will also highlight the importance of implementing accessibility standards and complying to different accessibility laws. Techshare India 2008 will be held on 4th and 5th February, 2008 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India. Special Attraction: Keynote speaker will be Shadi Abou Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Activity Lead. Key Highlights of Track 1: The Road Ahead - Envisioning the Accessibility Road Map Section 508 and Electronic Information Technology Accessibility - David Baquis, Accessibility Specialist, US Access Board Building accessibility in a large scale web application - experience with Yahoo! Mail Classic - Omprakash Subarrao, Director Consulting Practices, Yahoo! India Envisioning the Accessibility Road Map - Shilpi Kedia, Managing Director, BarrierBreak Technologies Key Highlights of Track 2: Making a Difference Braille, Large-Print, DAISY and MP3 with one simple but powerful tool - Dolphin EasyConverter - Steve Bennett, Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access Achieving Accessibility with Adobe Flex - Sameer Bhatt, Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems Indian Child Intelligence Test (ICIT) as a Diagnostic tool for identifying Learning Disabilities - Dr. Analpa Paranjpe, Director, Morris Trust Key Highlights of Track 3: Bridging the Digital Divide From a Digital Divide to a Digital Alliance - A future on the World Wide Web - Kenny Johar, Research, Architecture and Solutions Lead Vision Australia Automatic Generation of Speech Interface for GUI tools/applications using Accessibility Framework - Navin Kumar, Project Engineer, CDAC Mumbai Bookshare.org: The online library built by people with disabilities - Lisa D. Friendly, Director, BookShare.org Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired Access on the go - Dinesh Kaushal, Lead Developer, Code Factory In this India's First Accessibility and Assistive Technology conference and exhibition, there will be an opportunity to meet: US Access Board World Wide Web Consortium Yahoo! India Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK And many more from across the globe! Registrations are now open! Please visit http://www.barrierbreak.com/conferenceregistration.php to register online. To catch up with the latest news about Techshare India visit http://www.barrierbreak.com/techshareindia.php Thanks & Regards, Vasu | Account Manager BarrierBreak Technologies India: +91 (22) 2686 0485 / 86 Cell: +91 99202 29081 USA: +1 (781) 452 0677 Web: http://www.barrierbreak.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
