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ACP 07 Conference

The ACP '07 Conference was jointly hosted by the EUAIN Network and the ProAccess Project. The programme and participant list are provided below.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 19th September

10:00-13:00 Session 1: Design For All: Process not Product
Chair: Cearbhall O'Meadhra, EIDD - Design For All Europe
Achieving a fundamental level of accessibility means that we must move away from traditional approaches where accessibility is considered at the end of the design process. This requires that we consider accessibility from scratch and recognise that this is a process and not a product. By building on recognised Design For All methodologies, systems should be built in such a way that the mainstream solution should be easily adaptable and extensible.

  1. Understanding Design for All,Michal J Ozmin EIDD
  2. Social Inclusion and Design for All, Rita Walsh Lacey IDD
  3. Process Management:Product and Organisational Change, Hans-Juergen Kugler IDD
  4. User and Design for All, Cearbhall O Meadhra, EIDD

14:00-15:30 Session 2: Learning Technologies & Standards
Chair: Andy Heath, Open University, UK
This session will examine recent developments in learning technologies and examine in detail some of the emerging standards and content creation possibilities offered by wider platform and network convergence. This session will consider several projects (ALPE, TILE, eu4all) and related standards activities (such as IMS accLIP) and provide some ideas for using these results within publishing environments.

  1. Adaptation to context with eLearning content, Wendy Porch, The Open University
  2. Emerging standards and their application, Andy Heath, The Open University
  3. European Unified Framework for Accessible Lifelong Learning, Martyn Cooper, The Open University
  4. Introducing ALPE: Accessibility services for education and industry, Chris Douce, The Open University
  5. Multimedia systems and encoding, Kate Grant, Nine Tiles Networks Ltd

16:00-17:30 Session 3: Has ePublishing & Accessibility Failed?
Chair: Klaus Miesenberger, Integrated Study, University of Linz
Despite the repeated promise of accessibility on a broad scale, after more than two decades we still face the same situation and can see more or less no further than prototypes and initiatives. Mainstream publishing and service provision for people with disabilities are still working independently. We want to highlight why such initiatives fail; what and where are the impediments to convergence; and why promising and powerful technical R&D results are not taken up in practice.

  1. The @Science Network, Christophe Strobbe, @Science Project
  2. The Navigabile Project, Maria Bulgheroni, Navigabile Project
  3. Experiences from Digital Newspaper Publishing, Jan Engelen, Univ Leuven
  4. Challenges in mainstreaming accessiblity, Francisco Martinez Calvo, ONCE

Thursday 20th September

10:00-12:30 Session 1:With or Without You: Accessibility and Publishing
Chair: Anne Bergman-Tahon, Federation of European Pubishers
There are a growing number of reasons for considering accessibility related issues within publishing production and value chains. In many cases, the greater attention to structured digital content that this requires can also offer added value to digital content. Similarly, the re-use of structured digital content provides a sound basis for related activities such as archiving, content re-aggregation and personalisation. The convergence between production and consumption is also reflected in new approaches to content processing which can offer excellent opportunities to open new value chains and extend existing markets.

  1. The ProAccess Initiative, Cristina Mussinelli, ProAccess, AIE
  2. Institution-based Digitisation Centres, Claus Gravenhorst, CCS, DE
  3. RNIB and Publishers in Partnership: Results of National Feasibility Study, Mandy White and Jim Russell, RNIB
  4. The CEN WS/DPA Workshop, George Ioannidis, IN2/TZI
  5. Converging media becoming rich and flexible, Ted van der Togt, Netherlands
  6. Implementing a copyright exception in France, Dominique BURGER, Association BrailleNet
  7. Advances in the World of Accessible ContentMaarten Verboom, DEDICON
  8. Looking Forwards to New PartnershipsAnne Bergman-Tahon, Federation of European Publishers

13:30-16:30 Session 2: Pro Access Workshop
Chair: Cristina Musinelli, ProAccess Project Co-ordinator
The workshop will have presentations and demonstrations on production processes for trade references and educational content; accessible publishing for fiction and non-fiction; creating accessible content from the beginning; using accessible PDF documents and discussing new initiatives.

  1. Alt Format Production, Anders Frankenberg. Dolphin Computer Access Group
  2. Using Adobe InDesign to adapt newspaper and magazine content, Neil McKenzie, Dedicon
  3. Campus Dyslexia: a concrete experience of use of digital textbooks, Roberto Vitali, Anastasis
  4. Work in Progress - UK Challenges and Developing SolutionsMandy White and Jim Russell, RNIB
ACP 07 PARTICIPANTS

Dr. Simon Ball, Senior Advisor, JISC Techdis Service, UK
Jens Bammel, Secretary General, International Publishers Association
Steve Bennett, Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access Ltd, UK
Anne Bergman-Tahon, Director, Federation of European Publishers, Belgium
Piotr Broza, Senior Specialist, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Maria Bulgheroni, Ab.Acus, Italy
Dominique Burger, Chair, Association BrailleNet, France
Helen Cherkasov, General Manager’s Secretary, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori spa, Italy
Dr. Giovanni Ciafoni, Software Developer, Instituto dei Ciechi F. Cavazza – Bologna, Italy
Martyn Cooper, Senior Research Fellow/Head Accessibility in Educational Media, Open University UK
David Crombie, EUAIN Coordinator, Netherlands
Celine D’Ambrosio, Policy Adviser, Federation of European Publishers, Belgium
Guia de Martino Norante, Owner - dMB Editoria e grafica srl, Italy
Nadia Diraa, KU Leuven, Belgium
Christopher Douce, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Educational Technology - Open University UK
Jan Engelen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Anders Frankenberg, Managing Director - Dolphin Computer Access Ltd Swedish Divison, Sweden
Cerys Giddings, Information Developer - IBM UK
Kate Grant, Nine Tiles, UK
Claus Gravenhorst, Director Strategic Initiatives - CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH, Germany
Andy Heath, Open University UK
Dr. George Ioannidis, Director - IN2/TZI, Germany
Hugh Jones, Copyright Counsel - UK Publishers Association, UK
Hiroshi Kawamura, Chair - Daisy Consortium
Stephen King, Group Director - RNIB, UK
Lina Kouzi, National Council for the Blind of Ireland
Hans-Juergen Kugler, Board Member - (IDD) The Institute for Design and Disability Ireland
Rita Walsh Lacey, Chairman - (IDD) The Institute for Design and Disability Ireland
Sakari Laiho, Director - The Finnish Book Publishers Association, Finland
Maria Loi,Consultant - Associazioni Italiana Editori, Italy
Patrizia Lotti, Researcher - Agenzia Nazionali per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica, Italy
Elena Mantovani, Web Developer - CINECA, Italy
Francisco Martinez-Calvo, Technical Advisor - ONCE, Spain
Olga Martin-Sancho, Legal Adviser - FEE, Belgium
Neil McKenzie, Accessibility Consultant - Dedicon, Netherlands
Klaus Miesenberger, Institute Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Cristina Mussinelli, Consultant - Associazioni Italiana Editori, Italy
Joshue O’Connor, Senior Accessibility Consultant - National Council for the Blind of Ireland - CFIT
Cearbhall O’Meadhra, EIDD representative on EDF - EIDD - Design for All Europe
Hugh O’Neill, Project Coordinator - CRC, Ireland
Agnieszka Ogrodnik, Specialist - Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Peter Osborne, Head of Production Services - RNIB, UK
Michal J. Ozmin, Honorary Treasurer - EIDD - Design for All Europe
Emilia Persoon, Project Manager - Dedicon, Netherlands
Wendy Porch, Research Fellow - Accessibility in Educational Media, Open University UK
Jean Roberts, Sales Development Manager - Lightningsource UK Ltd
Reinhard Ruemer, Research Assistant - Institute Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Jim Russell, Consultant - RPM Associates, UK
Sabine Schotel, ACP07 Organisation - Dedicon, Netherlands
Henk Seijdel, Manager Production - Dedicon, Netherlands
Christophe Strobbe - KU Leuven, Belgium
Mandy Thompson, Operations Manager Transformations - RNIB, UK
Richard N. Tucker, Consultant - Force Foundation, Netherlands
Kurt van Damme, Legal Adviser - Flemish Publishers Association, Belgium
Ted vd Togt, Consultant -Dedicon, Netherlands
Maarten Verboom, Director -Dedicon, Netherlands
Mandy White, Project Manager -RNIB, UK
Alicia Wise, Chief Executive - Publishers Licensing Society, UK