Overview
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Keynote Speaker
- Victor Tsaran
- Senior Accessibility Program Manager at Yahoo
Title: Accessibility in the real world, experiences from building a more accessible Yahoo! Network.
- Learn about our accessibility lab and how we find it effective in promoting accessibility across the company.
- The new yahoo.com page and how we made accessibility to be an integral part of the process development.
- Innovation and research and how they are important for us to keep developers excited about accessibility.
- Something things we would like to do better.
More about Victor
Yahoo! is one of the leading content providers on the Internet. In his current position Victor Tsaran oversees company wide local and global accessibility activities (accessibility lab, policies, guidelines and research projects). In addition to his internal responsibilities, Victor does a lot of evangelizing outside of the company participates in various public events that promote accessibility around the world. Prior to this job, Victor worked as Accessibility Programmer at BART Group, McLean, Virginia on various consulting contracts ranging from Section 508 testing for federal agencies (USPTO, VA, EOP etc) to adapting proprietary software for businesses (AOL, T-mobile, Freedom Scientific etc).
Between 2000 and 2002, after having received Bachelors degree in computer science from Temple University, Philadelphia, Victor traveled extensively in South East Asia teaching computers to the visually impaired users of different ages in countries, such as Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia. This work was carried out for ON-NET, Overbrook Nippon Network on Educational Technology. Victor also taught courses on assistive technology in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Since 1998 Victor serves as a web master for ICEVI (International Council for Education of Visually Impaired). In 1996 Victor co-established one of the first computer centers for visually impaired in Ukraine. In addition to his job responsibilities, Victor has great passion for jazz guitar and participates in various open source projects, the most famous of which is JSonar, www.jsonar.org, the software which enables visually impaired musicians around the world to use Cakewalk Sonar, the world’s leading music recording application.
Program Overview
- IITAA and Best Practices
- Adobe PDF Accessibility
- Captioning Videos
- Content Management Systems
- Accessible Presentations
- Adobe Flash Accessibility
Date and Time
- Tuesday, September 29th
- Registration opens at 8:30am
- Program from 9:00am-3:30pm
- Reception at 3:30pm-4:45pm
Internet Access
- Guest UI Public Wirless services are available throughout the building
- Two computers in the Library/lounge on the first floor of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center are also available for short periods of time for checking e-mail.
Registration Fees
- Registration is closed, we have reached the capacilty of the facility
- Over 110 people have registered for the conference
Disability Accommodation
- If you need any disability accommodations, including parking, sign language interpretation or alternative formats for print materials please contact Jon Gunderson at (217) 244-5870 or jongund@illinois.edu as soon as possible for accommodations to be put in place before the conference.
Location
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center
- 601 S Lincoln Ave
- Urbana, IL 61801
- Map
Vendors and Exhibits
- Vendors and exhibitors will be available from 10:00am-4:30pm in the Atrium.
- University organizations or units can exhibit for the cost of standard registration of the people that will be part of the exhibit.
- Non-university of Illinois organizations and companies will be charged $200 to exhibit and includes a table, two chairs, power, internet access (UIUC public wireless) and 2 lunches.
- If you are interested in exhibiting a product or service please contact Jon Gunderson.
Current Exhitors
- Information Technology Accessibility Initiative (ITaccess)
- Illinois Center on Information Technology Accessibility
- MSF&W, Springfield, IL
- OJC, Urbana, IL
- Virtual 508, Champaign, IL
Sponsors
- Chancellor's Committee on Campus-wide Access and Accommodation
- Information Technology Accessibility Initiative (ITaccess)
- Illinois Center on Information Technology Accessibility
- Division of Disability Services and Educational Services, College of Applied Health Sciences
- Hewlett-Packard Corporation
- If your organization or company is interested in sponsoring this event please contact Jon Gunderson.
Publicity
Contact
- Jon Gunderson
- jongund@illinois.edu
- 217.244.5870