[XS=USE] “Accessibility Reaching Everywhere”: the AEGIS project holds its final workshop and international conference in Brussels, 28-30 November 2011

From: Renzo van Buuren <R.van.Buuren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xsisuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsisuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:45:26 +0100

Workshop and Conference registration is now open

You can now 
register for The Workshop and Conference
 on 28-30 November 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.

Press Release / IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Accessibility Reaching Everywhere”: the AEGIS project holds its final workshop 
and international conference in Brussels, 28-30 November 2011

BRUSSELS, 16 February 2011 - AEGIS project organises its final Workshop and 2nd 
International Conference entitled “Accessibility Reaching Everywhere” on
28-30 November 2011 in Brussels, bringing together both end-users (people with 
disabilities) as well as platform and application accessibility developers,
representative organisations, the Assistive Technology industry, and policy 
makers. Since 2008, the AEGIS consortium (comprising companies such as Vodafone
Foundation, Research in Motion, Oracle, and research groups from Cambridge 
University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, etc.) has been developing an
Open Accessibility Framework – comprising open accessibility interfaces, user 
interface components, developer tools, end-user applications and prototype
accessibility solutions for desktops, rich Internet applications and mobile 
devices. 

The workshop on 28 November will focus on the realisations of the AEGIS (Open 
Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards) project
and provide attendees the opportunity to try out all outcomes of the project. 
The demonstrated products offer barrier-free access to desktop, mobile and
web applications, are open source based and will be freely available. 

The conference on 29-30 November will gather a wide array of experts and users 
in the area of Assistive Technology to discuss scientific and policy 
developments
in accessible technology; showcase relevant projects and initiatives in the 
area of assistive technology. 

Access to both events will be free, but places will be limited.

This event comes ahead of the European Day of People with Disabilities that is 
marked by the European Commission via a policy conference in the first week
of December each year, in close cooperation with the European Disability Forum 
(EDF).

Invitations for registration, scientific papers and exhibitors will be issued 
soon. 

Both events take place at the Diamant Conference and Business Centre, Boulevard 
A. Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Brussels. More information is available under 
www.aegis-project.eu,
or contact Ms. Julie Buttier at 
julie.buttier@xxxxxxx

Mission Statement

AEGIS aims, through user research and prototype development with current and 
next-generation ICT, to develop and validate the necessary infrastructure and
accessibility frameworks needed for deeply embedding accessibility into the 
desktop, smart phones and rich Internet applications; with a focus on the needs
of users with mild, severe or complex disabilities served via assistive 
technologies; and to propose these results to the appropriate standards 
organisations
for adoption, as well as to make them available through open source as much as 
possible.

Link to press release (pdf).

http://www.aegis-project.eu/#header_page

Met vriendelijke groet,
 
    Student- en Onderwijsservices
Renzo van Buuren
Medewerker servicepunt Diversiteit(studeren Met Functiebeperking)
Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim 
Campus 2-6 
8017 CA Zwolle
 
Tel:  038-4688422
Mob:  0620767138
E-mail:           r.van.buuren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[XS=USE] “Accessibility Reaching Everywhere”: the AEGIS project holds its final workshop and international conference in Brussels, 28-30 November 2011

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