Methods and Tools in Designing Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
Presentation 1
Mike Paciello, The Paciello Group

The key reason why most technology—current or emerging—is not suitable or usable by people with disabilities is simple: Users with disabilities are rarely, if ever, integrated into the development process in a product lifecycle. This presentation discusses evaluation methods and tools that easily and effectively engage people with disabilities in the processes of user interface design and usability testing.

Speaker:

Mike Paciello is The Paciello Group’s founder and President, and an international authority on Web accessibility and assistive technology. He co-founded the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He is the author of the best selling book Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities. Mike’s other career accomplishments include: member of the Microsoft Corporation’s Accessibility Advisory Board and the federal Electronic and Information Technology Access Advisory Board; program manager for Vision Impaired Information Services for Digital Equipment Corporation; Executive Director (1996-1999) for the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation; co-founder of the International Committee for Accessible Document Design; member on numerous university, government, industry, and international advisory standards committees; and international consultant and professional speaker for SkillSoft, KnowledgeNet, Hyperion, BMC Software, Macromedia, Plato Learning Systems, Digital Credit Union, Microsoft, Fidelity Investments, and Dell.

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