Digital Accessibility Forum

The event was held on 19 November 2009 and it drew 106 participants from varied backgrounds including people with disabilities, caregivers, teachers, therapists, web developers and designers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all participants, trainers, speakers, panel members and sponsor for their support in making the Digital Accessibility Forum and Training Workshops a success.

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Event Highlights

Morning: Public Forum

Created awareness and bridged the gap of information sharing to include people with such disabilities as vision impairment, hearing impairment, print disabilities and physical disabilities. A research study on website accessibility in Singapore was released.

Afternoon: Concurrent Specialised Training Workshops

Provided training for professionals involved in development of digital information such as websites, Digital Talking Books, PDF documents.

Other Highlights

We presented a summary of the findings of a recent baseline study conducted by SPD, which showed that more can be done to improve local website accessibility. Of 89 public and 73 private websites sampled, 34 percent had at least one web page that showed no errors (as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative) when put through accessibility evaluation tool; only 7 percent had at least four pages that showed no errors. A copy of the survey report is available for download.

Learning Experiences from Our Participants

“The workshop is useful to introduce the concept of DAISY format and its creation to participants. I learnt how to toggle between the text and DAISY mode and using AMIS software to create DAISY books.”
– Ms Yeo Sze Ling

“Will help to evaluate websites with new knowledge I have gained.”
– Mr Norrizwan Rasip, Society for the Physically Disabled (Participated in the Best Practices for Web Accessibility and Conformance Techniques Workshop conducted by Ms Shawn Henry)