Late last year, ACCAN ran a Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility for People with Disabilities. We arranged to have the event recorded (audio only) and have now put all the recordings online. We have put the recordings up on a website called DotSub where people can contribute transcriptions, in the hope that people from ACCAN and the broader community can assist in making these very interesting and useful presentations fully accessible.
If you are interested in doing some transcription, full instructions for transcribing on DotSub are available in the How to transcribe a video on dotSUB video. Once you’ve watched the video, simply click on the video you want to transcribe to go through to its details.
We hope this is useful, and many thanks to ACCAN and Gunela Astbrink in particular for their advocacy of this very important topic.
Below are all the recordings. Please note, you will need a recent Flash player on your computer to watch the talks.
9:00 Welcome to Country – Matilda House
9:05 Introduction – Sue Salthouse, ACCAN Board Member and Chair of ACCAN’s Standing Advisory Committee on Disability Issues
9:10 Opening remarks – Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
9:20 National Disability Strategy and online participation by people with disabilities – Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services
9:30 Social Inclusion and Communications Accessibility - Graeme Innes AM, Disability Discrimination Commissioner
9:50 The role of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Kevin Cocks, CEO of Queensland Advocacy Incorporated
10:15 Accessible media developments - Dr. Scott Hollier, Media Access Australia and member of ACCAN’s Standing Advisory Committee on Disability Issues
10:35 Maximising accessibility in communications - Bert Ciavarra, Disability Services Manager, Telstra
10:55 Indigenous and remote online participation – Heron Loban, Chair of Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network and ACCAN Board member
11:15 Accessibility and social networking – Dr Denise Wood, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia, ACCAN’s Standing Advisory Committee on Disability Issues
11:35 Public procurement in ICT – Gunela Astbrink, Manager, Disability Policy and Research, ACCAN
11:55 Challenges and Opportunities for Software Developers – Simon Edwards, Microsoft
12:15 The changing role of citizen participation – Senator Kate Lundy
12:30 Planning for a more accessible Government – Abul Rizvi, Deputy Secretary, DBCDE
1:00 Closing remarks – Lisa Harvey and Dr Nicholas Gruen, Member and Chair of the Government 2.0 Taskforce
1:10 Summary of actions from Roundtable – Allan Asher, CEO, ACCAN
Final thoughts and questions from the floor
