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Context

The Web For All Camp, organized by W3C, is held at the upcoming during 20th International World Wide Web Conference in Hyderabad (India), on Wednesday 30 March 2011. See W3C Track @ WWW2011 for a more detailed agenda.

The event will feature a mix of structured content (talks, demos, lightning talks, etc.) and unstructured content. Topics of discussion for the two afternoon sessions will be selected at the camp during the morning session. This Wiki page is intended to collect suggestions in advance and to record the discussions that will be held on site.

If you're willing to lead a discussion, please add your name to a topic below. Thx!

Suggested Topics

The WebForAll camp participants have suggested the following topics of discussion:

  • Mobile and Accessibility and Multilingual
  • Rendering Indian languages on the Web
  • Validity and validators - use and abuse
  • Post-Unicode? New approach?
  • Accessibility in Education / Increasing awareness
  • Multilingual Speech for accessibility
  • Language per brozser
  • Roadmap for HTML5 and what about XHTML
  • Resource naming for localisation
  • Accessible Web of things and embedded systems security
  • Client-side localisation framework
  • Rendering Indian languages on the Web
  • Security aspects of mobile technologies
  • Impact of Multilingual Web on Accessibility
  • Fonts: how they work and what they do? - converting to WOFF
  • Incorporating CLDR in HTML5 and other markups
  • Changing accessibility game plans for implementations
  • Hardware and support for Multilingual Web
  • Spoofing and secrity for multilingual characters

Participants have selected the following topics:

  • Roadmap for HTML5 and what about XHTML
  • Mobile and Accessibility and Multilingual
  • Fonts: how they work and what they do? - converting to WOFF
  • Rendering Indian languages on the Web
  • Accessibility in Education / Increasing awareness

Lightning Talks (LTs)

Anything from announcements, controversial statements, project proposals, observations, short demos, etc. is great material for a lightning talk.

LT format = one slide (optional) and three minutes time (sharp).

Suggested procedure: add your talk/topic, here or let Shadi and/or Richrd know at least a bit before the session (just to keep track of how many people are interested).

  • LT1

Potential of HTML5 for web accessibility, by Reinaldo Ferraz (NIC.br, W3C Brazil host) and Vagner Diniz (W3C Brazil Office) http://nic.br/palestras/www2011/potential-html5-web-accessibility.html

  • LT2

Understanding accessibility features, by Reinaldo Ferraz (NIC.br, W3C Brazil host) and Vagner Diniz (W3C Brazil Office) http://nic.br/palestras/www2011/understanding-accessibility-features.html

  • LT3

Multilingual web sites, by M.T. Carrasco Benitez (European Commission) http://dragoman.org/mws-india.html


  • [canceled] Internet Governance and Web Accessibility" - Indian perspective, by Shri . N. Ravi Shanker (NiXi)

Web Accessibility Panel

The W3C track is hosting a panel not to be missed! Please convene in room H-01. The panel starts at 4:30pm and ends at 6pm. Details:

  • Title: Web Sites Accessibility Evaluation Methodologies: A New Imperative for State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Moderator is Nirmita Narasimhan, Program Manager, CIS and Editor, G3ict – ITU Policy Toolkit Handbook
  • Panelists are:
    • Shadi Abou-Zahra, WAI International Program Office Activity Lead, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
    • Glenda Sims, Senior Accessibility Consultant, Deque
    • Srinivasu Chakravarthula, Accessibility Manager at Yahoo! India
    • Neeta Verma, Senior Technical Director, Data Centre & Web Services Division, National Informatics Centre
    • Nirmita Narasimhan, Program Manager, CIS and Editor, G3ict – ITU Policy Toolkit Handbook

Who's coming?

  • Marie-Claire Forgue (W3C)
  • Shadi Abou-Zahra (W3C)
  • Richard Ishida (W3C)
  • Shri N. Ravi Shanker , Joint Secretary , Govt. of India
  • Swaran Lata (W3C India Office)
  • Vagner Diniz (W3C Brazil Office)
  • Reinaldo Ferraz (NIC.br - W3C Brazil host)
  • Carlinhos Cecconi (W3C Brazil Office)
  • M.T. Carrasco Benitez (European Commission)
  • Somnath Chandra (W3C India Office)