European Accessibility Forum

Speakers

Germany has never before experienced an international accessibility conference with such an illustrious line-up of speakers. In the interests of promoting dialog, our experts will briefly present their own work and then discuss accessibility on seven panels.

• Shadi Abou-Zahra | Activity Lead, W3C WAI International Program Office
• Paul Bakaus | UI Lead, jQuery
• Prof. Dr. Christian Bühler | Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Technical University of Dortmund
• Tomas Caspers | Accessibility Expert
• Raph de Rooij | Web Guidelines Specialist, ICTU
• Ellen Engel | Manager for Sociodemographic Groups and Persons with Reduced Mobility, Deutsche Bahn
• Steve Faulkner | Technical Director, The Paciello Group | W3C PFWG
• François-René Germain | Vice President, Group Accessibility Department, Orange | France Télécom
• Miguel González-Sancho | Deputy Head of Unit ICT for Inclusion, Information Society Directorate General, European Commission
• Lars Gunther | The Web Standards Project Education Task Force
• Dr. Jonathan Hassell | Head of Audience Experience & Usability, British Broadcasting Corporation | Acting Chair, British Standards Committee on Web Accessibility IST/45
• Dominique Hazaël-Massieux | Activity Lead, W3C Mobile Web Initiative
• Christian Heilmann | Web Architect / Standards Evangelist, Yahoo!
• Peter Krantz | Strategic Development Officer, previously with the Swedish Administrative Development Agency, Verva
• Linda Mauperon | Member of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, European Commission
• Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo | Senior Operations Officer, The World Bank
• Niqui Merret | Flash Accessibility Consultant, Jade Hopper
• Chris Mills | Developer Relations Manager, Opera Software
• Melanie Müller | German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• Saqib Shaikh | Software Developer, Microsoft
• Henny Swan | Web Evangelist, Opera Software
• Dr. Carlos Velasco | Competence Center Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)
• Marco Zehe | Accessibility QA Engineer, Mozilla Corporation

Moderation

• Eric Eggert | Webkrauts
• Beate Firlinger | Journalist, MAIN_Medienarbeit Integrativ
• Jeremy Keith | Technical Lead, Clearleft
• Martin Kliehm | Senior Frontend Engineer, namics
• Martin Ladstätter | Editor, BIZEPS-INFO
• Jürg Stuker | CEO, namics
• Prof. Hartmut Wöhlbier | Head of the Institute for Interactive Media, Department of Design, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences