Keynote speaker
Mar 20, 2012
Kevin Carey who is the Chairman of The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), has confirmed his participation at the conference. He will become a keynote speaker at ULD@ICCHP. He will deliver a lecture on the following topic: ”Taking Responsibility for Accessibility: The Authorial Role in Document Creation”
Abstract: In order to improve the accessibility of educational material for disabled people in general and blind and visually impaired people in particular, it is necessary to create author-engineered public domain documents (PDD) where the accessibility is built in to the initial production to optimise the consumption by the end user of the authorial intention.