Seminar on Usability and Accessibility Considerations
in Website Implementation
( 28 November 2003)
The seminar on "Usability and Accessibility Considerations in Website Implementation" was held on 28 November 2003 at Theatre 2, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with the aim to provide audience with the key design concepts and techniques to make websites more accessible to people with disability. It was jointly organised by the Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) and the Internet Professionals Association (iProA). Over 280 audience attended the seminar. Majority of them found the presentations useful and inspiring on improving web accessibility.
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Mr. Alan Wong,
Director of Information Technology Services |
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Group photo of all representatives of
organisers and guest speakers |
The theatre
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Programme Rundown
| 2:30 - 2:40 |
Welcome
Speech (Chinese version)
Mr. Alan Wong, Director of Information Technology
Services |
| 2:40 - 2:50 |
Opening
Speech
Ms. Elizabeth Quat, President of Internet Professionals
Association
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| 2:50
- 2:55 |
Presentation
of souvenir |
| 2:55
- 3:10 |
Spirit
of Disability Discrimination Ordinance and Webpage Design
Dr. Ferrick Chu, Chief Equal Opportunities
Officer, Equal Opportunities Commission
(Chinese version) |
| 3:10
- 3:40 |
The "Author Once, Present Anywhere"
(AOPA) Software Platform
Dr. Helen Meng, Associate Professor,
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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| 3:40
- 4:00 |
Break
and Demonstration
A mini-exhibition hall was set
up to display a wide range of assistive tools for people
with disabilities, including English/Cantonese screen
readers, Braille display, screen magnifier, scanning keyboard,
suck and blow switch and etc. The new accessibility features
incorporated in the latest release of Acrobat software
were also displayed for
hands-on trial. |
| 4:00
- 4:45 |
Quick Tips for Building Accessible Web Page
Mr. Kevin K C Chow, Chairman, IT Advisory Committee,
The Hong Kong Blind Union
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| 4:45 - 5:15 |
Making
Accessible PDF Documents
Mr. Wayne Hui, Corporate Sales Manager
Adobe Systems Inc.
(To ensure to view all the content in this document properly, please download the whole document and open it with Acrobat Reader 6.0)
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| 5:15
- 5:30 |
Experience
Sharing by the Winner of Web Care Award
Mr. Vincent Hui, Head of e-Distribution Department,
The Bank of East Asia
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