Agenda and Presentations

June 24, 2002
Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center

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Speaker biographies

8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Coffee

8:30 - 9:30 Opening

• Welcome from Lois Orr, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Welcome from Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician of the United States, HTML
• Introduction to the Workshop - Laurie Brown and Marianne Zawitz, Workshop Co-chairs
• The 508 Mandate - Doug Wakefield, Access Board
• GSA Resources - Terry Weaver, Director, Center for IT Accommodations, GSA
• The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines - Judy Brewer, Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), W3C

9:30 - 9:45 Break

9:45 - 10:00 Perspective of a Disable User - Roger Keeney, American Council of the Blind

10:00 - 12:00 HTML Tables

• Current Agency Practices - Marianne Zawitz, Workshop Co-chair
• Making 508 Conforming HTML Tables: How Assistive Devices Handle Properly Tagged Tables - Ken Nakata, Department of Justice, and Doug Wakefield, Access Board, PowerPoint presentation (180 KB)
• Accessible Tables from the W3C/WAI - Al Gilman, Chair, Protocols and Formats Working Group, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), W3C
• Agency Solutions
• Automating XML to HTML Transformations - Steve Ferg, Systems Analyst, Bureau of Labor Statistics, PowerPoint presentation (200 KB)
• Generating Tagged Tables with ColdFusion - Tim Kearley, Computer Specialist, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice
• Regular Expression and Scripting Techniques for Tables - Laurie Brown, Webmaster, Office of Policy, Social Security Administration

12:00 - 12:30 Committee Recognition Lunch

12:30 - 2:00 Discussions of other possible solutions with workshop participants and vendors

Vendors participating:

• Adobe
• COGENTEX, Inc. - To more information
• Corda Technologies, Inc. - To more information
• Crunchy Technology Inc.
• Deque Systems - To more information
• Finite Matters Ltd.
• gh, Inc.
• HiSoftware Company
• IBM
• Macromedia - To more information
• Nsystems, International Ltd.
• SSB Technologies
• UsableNet Inc. - To more information

2:00 - 3:00 Alternative Formats

• Introduction - Marianne Zawitz, Workshop Co-chair
• Spreadsheets as an Accessible Alternative - Peter Zadarlik, Principal Consultant, CIBER Accessibility Center of Excellence, PowerPoint presentation (1 MB) and
  Before and after spreadsheets, zip archive of six sample spreadsheets and alternatives
• PDF as an Accessible Alternative? - Glenn King, Chief, Statistical Compendia Branch, U.S. Census Bureau.
  
  Reports prepared by contractor and discussed:
  
  • Section 508 Compliance Assessment of the PDFs Published by the Statistical Compendia Branch of the United States Census Bureau, PDF (245 KB)
    
  • Level-of-Effort Analysis for Conversion of Statistical Tables Published in the Statistical Abstract into HTML that Complies with Section 508 Accessibility Requirements, PDF (211 KB)
    
  • XML vs. HTML: A Publishing Comparison, PDF (75 KB)

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 4:30 Graphics and Formulas

• Current Agency Practices - Laurie Brown, Workshop Co-chair
• Using Section 508 Compiant Graphics on the Web - Dan Grauman, Information Technology Specialist, National Cancer Institute National Cancer Institute, NIH, PowerPoint presentation (3 MB)
• MathML - John Gardner, Professor, Oregon State University

4:30 - 5:00 Conclusion and Future Directions - Laurie Brown and Marianne Zawitz, Workshop Co-chairs

5:00 - 6:00 Vendor Exhibits