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It's time for our next IDUG meeting. On Wednesday, 30 September 2009, we celebrate our first anniversary and are hosting a meeting with the theme Publishing for Accessibility with InDesign.

More and more organisations now-a-days require that publications are made accessible in accordance with Government guidelines. Accessibility enables those people in the community with visual impairments or other disabilities to have access to the content contained in our publications and to navigate through this content and interact with it.

Our meeting will introduce you to the different aspects of accessibility: going from traditional print to accessible PDF, HTML, Braille in DAISY and ePub.

Flying over from Melbourne for this session is our guest-speaker Chandi Perera, CEO of Typefi Systems. Chandi has worked in publishing and media technology industry over 15 years and earlier in the year spoke at the "Tools of Change for Publishing" conference in New York. With his depth of knowledge about publishing technology, content repurposing (XML, XSLT) and InDesign publishing automation, Chandi brings to the publishing industry a wealth of knowledge.

Attendance to our IDUG meeting is FREE as always. However, seating is limited (90 max), so be sure to register soon!

See you there and join us for our 1st Birthday celebrations.

Agenda

• 5:45 - 6:15pm: Registration and meet-and-greet (cold drinks and some food provided)
• 6:15 - 6:20pm: Meeting Welcome
• 6:20 - 7:05pm: Publishing for Accessibility (principles)
• 7:05 - 7:15pm: short break
• 7:15 - 8:00pm: Publishing for Accessibility (in practice)
• 8:00 - 8:30pm: Questions, Prize give-away
• 8:30pm End of meeting

Sponsors

This meeting is made possible with generous support and sponsorship of Adobe Systems, Aquent, and Edith Cowan University.