| WorldEnable is an Internet accessibility
initiative in support of the international goals of equalizing opportunities
for, by, and with persons with disabilities. WorldEnable
is co-developed by Vision Office Support
Services, Ltd. in Canada and Associates
for International Management Services in the United States
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 Promoting the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities: Full Participation and Equality -
Meetings : Convention
coverage for 2006. Best
Practices: Webmasters' Interface on Accessible ICT for Persons with
Disabilitiess
Cebu City, Philippines, 16-18 May 2006
The
First Session of the Biwako Millennium Framework (BMF) Stakeholders'
Coordination Meeting
Bangkok, Thailand, 17-19 October 2005
UN
ESCAP Workshop on Regional Follow-up to the Seventh Session and
Preparation for the Eighth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on an
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Bangkok, Thailand, 20-21 July
2006
FOCUS:
UN ESCAP Meetings related to the Promotion of Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Previous
Seminars
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Currently on WorldEnable:
 Achieving
the value proposition of accessibility on the Internet; issues of
information policy, structures and technologies, by Clinton E. Rapley
The Rights
of Persons with Disabilities Resources CD 2 is available
Order this CD
[Coming Soon: Resources CD 3]
The
United Nations Standard Rules for the Equalization of Opportunities for
Persons with Disabilities - A Short Tour with María Cristina Sará-Serrano
Promoting
Accessibility with Reasonable Adaptation
Critical
issues from a disability perspective: Accessibility - by Cynthia D.
Waddell, JD
Expert Group Meeting on ICT for Persons with
Disabilities.
(Beirut, 25-26 May 2004)
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Supported Meetings
UN
ESCAP Workshop on Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) and Poverty
Alleviation of Persons with Disabilities, Bangkok, Thailand, 5
July 2005
UN
ESCAP/CDPF Field Study cum Regional Workshop on Poverty Alleviation among
Persons with Disabilities, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China 25-29
October 2004
Interregional
Consultative Expert Meeting on disability-sensitive policy design and evaluation
for sustainable livelihoods for all in the twenty-first century,
Jakarta, January 15-17, 2002
Considering
Web Accessibility in Web Design is a presentation at the International
symposium Integrating Differences: Theories & Applications of Universal Design
at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, October
18-20, 2001
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Articles / Papers
Electronic
Accessibility: United States and International Perspectives,
A Featured Article of the AACE
Educational Technology
Review written by Deanie French and Leo Valdes.
Internet
Accessibility: Lessons of Pilot Action in Support of the United Nations Global
Programme concerning Persons with Disabilities, A concurrent
session presented at "Designing for the 21st Century II, An International
Conference on Universal Design"
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