-- Promoting Accessibility Rights in a Digital Era --
April 19, 2010
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
UIC Forum
725 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
2010 Digital Accessibility Expo Materials
Link to Full List of DAE Exhibitors
Biographies of Scheduled Speakers
Want to help Advertise the DAE? A poster is available to Download (pdf format)
The UIC Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, the Great Lakes ADA Center, and the Disability Resource Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) are excited to announce the 2nd Annual Digital Accessibility Expo to be held on Monday, April 19, 2010 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm at the UIC Forum (on the corner of Roosevelt Road and Halsted Street) in Chicago.
The Digital Accessibility Expo focuses on improving the access to digital materials both for people with disabilities and for those without. Information and instructional materials that are developed with accessibility in mind are universally designed for everyone to access.
This year we will have a schedule with noteworthy keynote speakers on universal design of online information and three session tracks concerning accessible web design, accessible instructional design, and implementation of accessibility. Scheduled keynote speakers include Shawn Henry from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Christopher Schmitt - CSS Author, and Bill Reif from the National Federation of the Blind.
An exhibit hall will demonstrate assistive technology and accessible information technology along with providing training opportunities on how digital information can be developed accessibly. The UIC Campus will demonstrate current resources available that promote accessible information technology and assistive technology.
Registration covers the cost of lunch, all exhibits, and presentations. Registration is $50.
Directions to the UIC Forum can be found at the UIC Forum Web Site.
Parking in Lot 5 is $8.50, They Accept Cash or Credit Cards on Entrance to the Lot. Map to Lot 5 parking is a block west of the UIC Forum:
Google Map: http://bit.ly/cTcZDQ
Covered Parking is available in the Maxwell Street Parking Garage for $12.50 They Accept Cash or Credit Cards when exiting the lot at a paystation. It is about 2 blocks south of the UIC Forum.
Google Map: http://bit.ly/9yJLyj
or
http://www.uicflames.com/facilities/ilch-maxwell-directions.html
Digital Accessibility Expo SPONSORS INCLUDE:
UIC Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of
Persons with Disabilities
Great Lakes ADA Center
Illinois Board of Higher Education
City of Chicago Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and the Department of Innovation and Technology
UIC Office for Access and Equity
Dell
UIC Institute of Disability and Human Development,
Disability and Human Development Department
UIC Web Accessibility Committee
Digital Accessibility Expo Organizing Committee:
Mark Goedert, Senior Research Programmer, ACCC
Joann Gras, Special Assistant to the Associate Chancellor, Office for Access and Equity
Leo Klein, Coordinator for Web Communications, Office of Admissions and Records
Janet Peters, Project Coordinator for Education and Assistive Technology, Great Lakes ADA Center
Kevin Price, Chair, Assistive Technologist, Disability Resource Center
Kevin Shalla, Associate Director, Information and Technical Services, Office of Admissions and Records
Roxana Stupp, Director, Disability Resource Center
Sarah Yu, Research Programmer, ACCC
Poster designed by Kurt Okimoto, Special Projects Coordinator, Academic Communications
More information about: about Speakers / for Sponsors
