Missouri Digital Media Conference

Presented by DMD

April 22, 2004

"Accessibility and Usability"

Truman Building, Rooms 490 - 493

Morning conference: 8a.m. - noon

Repeat conference: 1-5p.m.

Get the necessary resources to make your Internet and intranet pages compliant with state and federal laws. Also find out how you can share content across Web sites with other state agencies and how this can benefit your agency. The conference also will let you learn more about:

• resources you can use in your projects
• trends in Web and multimedia development
• developing policies and programs spanning state agencies

Tentative Agenda:

(Technical track)

• Keynote address: Kay Dinolfo (DOR), DMD Co-Chair
• "Why should my Web site be accessible anyway?", Joshua Bullock (MDC)
  • [ View Presentation ]
• Inter-agency panel: "Success Stories" Presentation and discussion on successful usability and accessibility projects.
  • Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE)
    • Lannie Martin & Bobbie-Sue Koelling
      [ Implementing Accessibility Into ASP/ASP.Net Applications ]
      [ Web Content Accessibility Standards ]
  • Dept. of Natural Resources
    • Debbie Boeckman
      [ DNR Design Using CSS & Templates ]
  • Office of the Sec. of State
    • Jason Stirnaman
      [ XML and XSLT for Separating Content from Presentation ]
  • Dept. of Conservation
    • Kirk Keller
      [ Making Computer Kiosks Accessible ]

(CIO, PR track)

• Keynote address: Kevin Lanahan (Insurance), DMD Co-Chair
  • [ Keynote Presentation ]
• "Why should my Web site be accessible anyway?", Kay Dinolfo (DOR) DMD Co-Chair
  • [ Usability & Accessibility Presentation ]
• Inter-agency panel: "Success Stories" Presentation and discussion on successful usability and accessibility projects.
• Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE)
  • Lannie Martin & Bobbie-Sue Koelling
    [ Implementing Accessibility Into ASP/ASP.Net Applications ]
    [ Web Content Accessibility Standards ]
• Dept. of Natural Resources
  • Debbie Boeckman
    [ DNR Design Using CSS & Templates ]
• Office of the Sec. of State
  • Jason Stirnaman
    [ XML and XSLT for Separating Content from Presentation ]
• Dept. of Conservation
  • Kirk Keller
    [ Making Computer Kiosks Accessible ]

Brought to you by the Digital Media Developer Group

The DMD (Digital Media Developers) group is an inter-agency group recognized by ITAB (Missouri state's Internet Technology Advisory Board) in 1996. The purpose of the Digital Media Developers Group (DMD) is to provide a forum for Missouri government digital media developers to discuss the presentation and dissemination of digital media. The DMD acts as a virtual research and development team for state development of digital media for the Web, CD-ROMs and other multimedia.