[LIS-Forum] Announcement of National Workshop on workshop on Web Accessibility

[Vimal Kumar]

*Announcement of National Workshop on workshop on Web Accessibility*


 *The Centre for Internet and Society <http://www.cis-india.org/>* (CIS) and
*Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and
Employment<http://www.space-kerala.org/>
* (SPACE) are organizing a workshop on web accessibility for web developers
from the public and private sector from September 25 to 26, 2009. The
workshop will take place at *Christ Nagar International School*, Kowdiar,
Thiruvananthapuram, between 09:30-17:30 hours each day.

The workshop seeks to bring together practitioners from Government
Departments, as well as from small and medium enterprises across the
country. The primary aim of this workshop is to demonstrate the importance
of creating accessible web sites and to educate the developers of government
and private web sites on how to incorporate accessibility features into new
as well as existing web sites.

The training comprises both theory-oriented and practical sessions.The
trainers are specialists in various aspects of web accessibility. The main
focus will be on WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The workshop is for persons already
involved in developing web sites with good knowledge
of HTML, XML, CSS, etc. In addition to training web developers in
accessibility, the workshop will also serve as a platform for capacity
building by training potential accessibility trainers.

 The programme is supported by *Kerala State IT
Mission<http://www.itmission.kerala.gov.in>
*, which runs *INSIGHT - ICT Centre for the differently
abled*<http://insight.kerala.gov.in>in association with SPACE.

Hurry! Interested persons are requested to register immediately as seats are
limited.

Candidates may register directly on the website at
http://c11.space-kerala.org/webw/ fill the application form (*
http://tinyurl.com/ktctwl*) and post/ submit to SPACE office


*SPACE Office Address*
Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment
C-11, Elankom Gardens,
Vellayambalam, Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala, India



-- 
Vimal Kumar V.
Asst. Librarian
Asian School of Business
Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581
Web: www.vimalkumar.co.nr
Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in

OK Society Volunteer. http://oksociety.in
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt"
-Patrick White

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20090917/555ebae2/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: registration_form.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 261153 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20090917/555ebae2/attachment.pdf>