Open Content For All Reports now Available

"Open Content for ALL" was held at the Institute of Physics in London in December 2003. Five of the talks have now been written up comprehensively and made available as HTML pages and as PDF.

Conrad Taylor, information design and electronic publishing secretary of BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group (EPSG), says 'We're sorry it has taken two years to get these talks written up for dissemination, but we have had to contend with shortage of EPSG labour to deal with these, until now. But the materials are still just as relevant today - and where there have been fresh developments, we have added footnotes and appendices to the reports to keep them up to date. The Web references have also been checked and, in many cases, updated.'

The following talks are written up and presented on the EPSG website at the link below.

* Geoff Ryman, at that time working for the office of the e-Envoy in the UK Cabinet Office, explaining what accessibility means, what is the UK law that mandates it, and what design management processes to put in train so as to be able to achieve it.

* Kath Noonan, a Web designer with Poptel Technology, describing the journey she and her colleagues have made in progressing from "eye-candy Dot Com design" to fully accessible pages while still retaining an interface that is attractive to all.

* Caroline Lambie of Mencap, talking about the particular challenges of making information accessible to people with learning disabilities, and how paying attention to their needs could bring dividends for all.

* Dan McQuillan, explaining how the advice project Multikulti has gone about publishing welfare and rights information in a dozen languages, six of which use non-latin scripts, in an approach based on indexable "live text" and Unicode.

* Bruno Maag, a type designer, explaining just what the Unicode encoding scheme is -- and how, in concert with TrueType and OpenType, it is bringing multiscript web publishing closer. Bruno also explains how fonts may be embedded in websites.

Associated Link: Open Content For All reports

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