The Euroweb 2002 Conference will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK on the 17th and 18th December 2002. EuroWeb 2002 will be a major international forum at which research on the World Wide Web, GRIDs and Web Services is presented. EuroWeb 2002 follows on from the success of the EuroWeb 2001, which was held in Pisa in December, 2001 on the topic of the web in public administration.
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of two new Offices. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
The W3C Finnish Office (in Finnish) is based at the Digital Media Institute of the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland. The opening ceremonies were 11 October (press release).
The W3C Hungarian Office is based at the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in Budapest, Hungary. Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman, László Kovács, and Vincent Quint are among those who attended the opening ceremonies on 24 September (press release).
W3C co-supported XML Days in Europe from 18 September through 10 October. Klaus Birkenbihl of the W3C Office in Germany and Austria, and Oreste Signore of the W3C Office in Italy participated, and Steven Pemberton, Bert Bos, Rigo Wenning, and Ivan Herman of the W3C Team gave keynotes. The series ran in Munich, Zurich, Milan, Brussels, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen.
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This update provides information on activities of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), for the Web Accessibility Initiative Design for All (WAI DA) Project in Europe. Please circulate to other mailing lists as appropriate, avoiding cross-postings where possible.
1. Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) Meeting 7-8 November in Copenhagen
The EOWG will meet on 7 - 8 November 2002, in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the IST 2002 Conference. The focus of the 7 November session will be on exchanging information about promotion and implementation of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The 8 November session will include training on evaluation of Web site accessibility, and demonstrations of training approaches from others involved in Web accessibility. Information on upcoming WAI meetings can regularly be found in the News section of the WAI home page. http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2002/1107-agenda.html http://www.w3.org/WAI/#News
2. Web Accessibility Initiative Receives Roland Wagner Award at ICCHP 2002
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) received the Roland Wagner Award at the International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) on 17 July 2002 in Linz, Austria. The award was given by the Austrian Computer Society, in recognition of WAI's international contributions to making Web technologies accessible to the broadest possible audience. http://www.w3.org/News/2002#item104
3. About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this WAI DA Update
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is based at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international consortium promoting the evolution of the Web. WAI addresses accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities through a variety of activities including technical and guidelines development and educational work. WAI Design for All (WAI DA) is a project of WAI, funded by the EC Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to increase outreach and localizations of Web accessibility information in Europe. The WAI TIES Project, with a similar focus on Web accessibility, will be introduced in the next update. Additional information is available: W3C http://www.w3.org/ WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI/ WAI Resources http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/ WAI DA http://www.w3.org/WAI/waida/
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