Web 2.0 and Web Accessibility Panel Discussions in CISTM 2009
The seventh annual Conference on Information Science Technology and Management (CISTM 2009) is being held from 13th until 15th July 2009 at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India. The schedule of the event is available here. We will be chairing two panel discussions at this conference.
Dr. Jai Ganesh will be chairing a discussion on 'Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing'. In this discussion we will explore the complementarities as well as points of intersection between the principles of Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing.
I will be leading another discussion on "Does Web 2.0 Challenge Accessibility?" This discussion will bring to fore some of the challenges posed by Web 2.0 technologies for people with different abilities and debate the adequacy of regulations as well as technological solutions to address these challenges. Other panelists for this discussion include an independent accessibility consultant as well as a leading technology developer in the field of screen readers.
