| Affiliation with other organizations: |
Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171 committee Canadian delegate to JTC1/SC35/WG6 and to JTC1 SWG Accessibility. Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group Member of G3ICT |
| Publications: |
Accessible Document Design Using Word 2010, ISBN • Microsoft Word 2007 from the Keyboard, ISBN 978-0-9781272-5-1. • Accessible and Usable PDF Documents: Techniques for Document Authors (Third Edition) ISBN 978-0-9868085-0-0 • Accessible and Usable PDF Documents: Techniques for Document Authors (Second Edition), ISBN 978-0-9782675-2-0. • Accessible and Useable PDF Documents: Techniques for Document Authors, ISBN 0 9738246 1 1. • Logical Document Structure Handbook: Word 2010, ISBN 978-0-9782675-4-4. • Logical Document Structure Handbook: Word 2010 Legal Edition, ISBN 978-0-9782675-5-1 with techniques on accessible redacted documents. • Logical Document Structure Handbook: Word 2007, ISBN 0-9738370-9-8. • Logical Document Structure Handbook: Word 2007 Legal Edition, ISBN 978-0-9782675-3-7 with techniques on accessible redacted documents. • Logical Document Structure Handbook: Word 2003, ISBN 0-9738370-3-9. • Logical Document structure Handbook: PowerPoint 2007, ISBN 978-0-9782675-6-8. • Logical Document structure Handbook: PowerPoint 2010, ISBN 978-0-9782675-7-5 • Microsoft OneNote 2010 from the Keyboard, ISBN 978-0-9782675-9-9. • Microsoft OneNote 2007 from the Keyboard, ISBN 978-0-9781272-9-9. • Internet Explorer from the Keyboard, ISBN 0-9738370-7-1. • Outlook 2003 from the Keyboard, ISBN 0-9781272-3-4. • Word 2003 from the Keyboard (2003), ISBN 0-9781272-0-X. • Create Daisy Books with eClipseWriter, ISBN 0-9738246-2-X. • Reading Daisy Books with eClipseReader, ISBN 0-9738246-3-8. • Screen Reading and Voice Recognition, ISBN 0-9738246-4-6. • Using Microsoft OneNote, ISBN 0-9738246-5-4. • Introduction to Tablet Technology, ISBN 0-9738246-6. • Microsoft Outlook 2003 with JAWS, ISBN 0-9738246-7-0. • Microsoft Word 2003 with JAWS: Introduction, ISBN 0-9738246-8-9. • Microsoft Word 2003 with JAWS: Intermediate, ISBN 0-9738246-9-7. • Microsoft Word 2003 with JAWS: Advanced, ISBN 0-9738370-0-4. • Microsoft Internet Explorer with JAWS, ISBN 0-9738370-1-2. • Firefox with JAWS, ISBN 0-9738370-2-0. • The Box Came Today....Now What Do I Do? (Second Edition), ISBN 978-0-9782675-1-3. • The Box Came Today...Now What Do I Do? : A Resource for CCTV Assessment and Training, ISBN 0-9738246-0-3. Publications – Articles or Book Chapters • County of Brant, Specialized Transportation Service Report. Research of taxi-based Para transit services in Ontario to assist the County in moving forward with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Integrated Accessibility Standards (Information Communication, Employment and Transportation). • “Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office Word 2007” written by Faithe Wempen, QUE books. I wrote Appendix C on how to create more accessible Word 2007 documents. ISBN-10: 078973608X and ISBN-13: 978-0789736086. • Creating Accessible PDF using Microsoft Word 2003, Accessible Content magazine, January 2006. • “Conference Raises Internet and Web Page Accessibility” An overview of CSUN 2001, Communique Magazine, Canadian Association of College and University Student Services, Spring 2001, p. 26, ISSN 1206-8500 |
| Purpose of the organization: |
To ensure that digital environments and content are accessible to people with disabilities and more recently/past two years, to ensure that legislation toward inclusion such as the Ontarians with Disabilities Act, the Accessibility for Manitobans with Disabilities Act, section 508 and the CRPD are implemented in their respective countries. |
| Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: |
Advocacy for more information on the CRPD within Canada and globally. Attended my first UNICEF Forum on the Rights of Children with Disabilities in September 2013 and have taken two seminar courses (CRPD and Incheon Strategy) from IDPP to understand the relationship between regional and geographic human rights in context of CRPD. |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
http://www.karlencommunications.com/AODA.html I also provided detailed comments on the UNICEF forum which I submitted to UNICEF and am currently writing comments for the revisions of articles 9 and 12 of the CRPD/deadline January 31, 2013. Contact Derrick Cogburn of IDPP to verify attendance in the IDPP seminars. |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Karen McCall |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
1 member, woman with a disability who has a masters degree in adult education (as well as a BEd to teach grades 6 to 11 in the Ontario school system, subject of degree were history and special education) |
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