AEGIS First International Workshop

5th June 2009, near London, UK

Having affordable accessibility support into mainstream ICT devices/applications is much wanted in the disability community. Accessible devices and applications offer the backbone to many people with disabilities across Europe and beyond to maintain their autonomy as this is associated to a better quality of life.

Supported by the 7th Framework Programme on Research and Technological Development of the European Union, the ÆGIS (Open Source-based Generalised Accessibility Support for Mainstream ICT) project aims to develop an Open Accessibility Framework (OAF) through which aspects of the design, development and deployment of accessible mainstream ICT are addressed. The OAF will provide developers with embedded and built-in accessibility solutions, as well as toolkits for 'engraving' accessibility in existing and emerging mass-market ICT-based products, thus making accessibility open, plug and play, personalised and configurable, realistic and applicable in various contexts. Simultaneously, the project will provide Open Source Accessible Desktop Applications to the end-users (people with disabilities, older people)

On behalf of the ÆGIS Consortium, we kindly invite you to participate in its first Pan-European Workshop that will take place on Friday 5th June 2009 at Research In Motion UK Ltd, Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

This workshop will present the preliminary findings of the project related to the Use Cases selection and preliminary user requirements, thus stimulating discussions on these issues between both end-users and application developers. Its outcome will be taken into account by the Consortium during the further course of the project. Key stakeholders from relevant areas are expected to participate (such as end users’ representatives and organisations, EC representatives, technologies developers, etc.). This workshop therefore is an excellent chance to meet experts from relevant fields.

Participation to the ÆGIS workshop is free of charge. However, due to space limitation, participation will be on a first-come first-served basis. Registration forms should be returned before Thursday, 30 April 2009.

For further information about the ÆGIS project, please visit the ÆGIS website at www.aegis-project.eu.

Please download the registration form and further information on the left of this page.

Program

8.30 – 9.00 Registration 
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome and Aim of the Day
9.10 – 9.35 EU Policies on eINCLUSION
9.35 – 9.50 ÆGIS at a Glance (Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris, CERTH-HIT)
9.50 – 10.10 First feedback as collected during user forum (FONCE)
10.10 – 10.40 Demos and Technical Overview (Peter Korn, Sun Microsystems)
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break 
11.00 – 12.30 ÆGIS Draft Use Cases and discussion (Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris, CERTH-HIT)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 
14.00 – 14.30 Standardization and Harmonization Issues
on eINCLUSION
14.30 – 15.00 Accessibility overall
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break 
15.30 – 16.30 Round table Moderated by Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris and Peter Korn
16.30 – 17.00 Conclusions

Last updated: 03/03/09