Sorry for the late notice, but Mr. Thorp sent this along. Looks pretty good for those of you downtown'ers who can sneak off during the lunch hour:
Web Accessibility Program - Panel Discussion
11:30am-1:30pm, Wednesday, February 21st
Room A5 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW Washington DC, 20001
Is your website accessible? Would you like to learn how to make it accessible? Bring your brown bag lunch to a panel discussion and networking session on Web Accessibility at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on February 21st, 2007, from 11:30 am to 1:30pm in room A5. The purpose of the program is to educate librarians, information technology services staff, and other interested parties about web accessibility. The discussion will be webcast.
There will be a minimal charge of $5 for members & students / $10 for nonmembers.
The panel will include:
Preety Kumar, CEO of Deque Systems, a Reston, Va., company that helps Web site designers automate the task of complying with accessibility standards, will be talking about automation of web accessibility testing both for both W3C standards and section 508.
Steven Booth, a Web Accessibility Expert from the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) in Baltimore, Maryland will focus on user experience.
Marcia Harrington, chief, Adult Literacy Resource Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will talk about web accessibility from the standpoint of users with low literacy.
Justin Thorp from the Library of Congress will talk about the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and evaluating a web site for accessibility.