ProAccess

From the O'Reilly website:

The Call for Participation is Open—Submit a proposal to Speak by September 9

From the US National Federation of the Blind press room:

National Federation of the Blind Commends Amazon on Unveiling of New Accessible Kindle

Baltimore, Maryland (July 29, 2010): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) today commended Amazon on the unveiling of a new, accessible Kindle. Amazon announced Wednesday that the new Kindle will come equipped with a voice guide that reads all menu options aloud so blind and other print-disabled people can navigate the device menus.

From the KB (Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands) website:

From the ENCES News archive:

From the Europe's Infomation Society thematic portal.

Europe's most visible forum for ICT research and innovation has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation.

From the IFFRO web site:

On 7 June the XIV UNESCO session of the intergovernmental copyright committee discussed three items linked to copyright:

From International Property Watch

Member states at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) late Thursday night were unable to reach agreement on a draft chair’s conclusions text summarising a four-day WIPO copyright committee meeting, crashing the prospect of swift progress on improving international access to literary material for the visually impaired.

By email:

This is an invitation to join us in Dundee for a one-day workshop on "Socio-Technological Issues of Adaptive Interfaces and User Profiling for Accessibility"

Date: 6th September 2010
Venue: University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland

Workshop outline:

From the WIPO press room:

WIPO’s top copyright negotiating body this week discussed better access to copyright-protected works for the blind, visually impaired (VIP) and other reading-disabled persons, as well as updating the rights of broadcasting organizations.