Bridging the Barriers was the theme of a conference on accessiblity in the workplace, including accessible technology, held in February, 2010 in New Delhi, India. This was the second Techshare Conference hosted by Barrier Break Technologies in conjunction with The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) of the United Kingdom.
The Phillipines and Korea have national web accessibilty guidelines based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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As part of STC’s memberships in the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA), STC has the opportunity to nominate experts to join the working group for the new Simplified English international standard. Details are posted on STC’s Notebook:
http://notebook.stc.org/nominations-for-simplified-english-international-standard-working-group/
Anyone interested should contact Annette Reilly, STC Standards Council Manager, annette.d.reilly@lmco.com, by 13 November with a brief statement of experience and qualifications in this area.
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