[Chapter-delegates] Organizing a disability awareness workshop with your Chapter

[Gunela Astbrink]

Dear Victor,

It is good to hear from you and that you found the documents useful.

I'm delighted that you would like to organise a workshop about 
disability awareness in Cameroon. That is very good news! It will 
probably take a while to organise such a workshop. Please let me know 
your progress.

There is much software available to assist people with disabilities to 
use the Internet. Some of it is expensive so it is important to evaluate 
what is suitable and maybe already being used in Cameroon.

Examples of screen reading software for blind people are listed at:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1231

Screen reading software outputs each line of text on a screen usually to 
a speech synthesiser so that a blind person can hear what is on the 
screen and how it is formatted.

With multimedia, it is important that captioning is available for people 
with hearing impairment.

Web developers need to use the W3C international web content 
accessibility guidelines so that people with vision impairment, hearing 
impairment and physical disabilities, for example, can use web sites. 
Further information about this is at: 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted/Overview.html

Cameroon has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with 
Disabilities and this includes an Article that the government must 
provide access to information and communications technologies to people 
with disabilities at an affordable cost. 
http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?navid=14&pid=150

Your workshop could highlight some of these issues. Involving and 
including representatives from disability organisations helps to bring 
home the issues directly.

This is only a small starting point - there is much other information 
and resources that will be useful for you.

I totally agree - The Internet is for Everyone - including people with 
disabilities!

I wish you much success in your work!

Regards,
Gunela

On 20/08/11 1:31 AM, Victor NDONNANG wrote:
> Dear Christine,
>
> Thank you very much for sharing the outcome documents of this interesting
> initiative. I would like to thanks Gunela for this initiative and her
> excellent Presentation.
>
> There are many people with disabilities living in Cameroon and we were just
> wonder how we can help them effectively use the Internet. Internet society
> Cameroon chapter will be interested to organize Its own Workshop about this
> issue but unfortunately not before the end of September 2011. We will
> contact Gunela when ready to start the process. While waiting, I will be
> interested to learn more about software and material available to improve to
> use of the Internet by people with disabilities.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> The Internet is for Everyone! Even for people with disabilities!
>
> Victor.
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] De la part de Christine
> Saegesser
> Envoyé : jeudi 18 août 2011 09:02
> À : chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Objet : [Chapter-delegates] Organizing a disability awareness workshop with
> your Chapter
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> This is to let you know that Gunela Asbrink’s presentation on “Planning your
> disability awareness workshop” has been recorded as well as captioned and
> that both these products are now available for you to listen and read.
>
> WebEx recording:
> https://isoc.webex.com/isoc/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=53271937&rKey=c972894086
> 4ed73e (will be available until 15 October 2011)
>
> Captioning (unedited):
> http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/files/2011/08/20110817_DisabilityAwarene
> ssCall_GunelaAstbrink.pdf
>
> If your Chapter is interested in organizing its own workshop in this field,
> then please don’t hesitate to contact Gunela (preferably before the end of
> September 2011) and she will be happy to assist you in the planning.
>
> Gunela Astbrink is a member of the Internet Society Australia Chapter and is
> just winding up an Internet Society Community Grants Project on “Disability
> Training for Chapters”. You can find more information about this project at
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/projects/awards.php?phase=12
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christine
>
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> Internet Society (ISOC)
> Christine Saegesser Baethge
> Manager, Chapter Development
> Website: www.InternetSociety.org
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Gunela Astbrink
GSA Information Consultants
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