Web Accessibility with Peter Bol and Rich Schwerdtfeger

Date: 

Thursday, April 2, 2015, 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Harvard University's Lamont Library in the Forum Room

The Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative presents...

Web Accessibility Session 

  • Peter K. Bol is Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. As Vice Provost, he is responsible for HarvardX; a newly formed educational research and analytics group; and the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching. He recently wrapped up teaching ChinaX, a 15 month long open online course, with William Kirby.
  • Rich Schwerdtfeger is CTO for Accessibility at IBM Software.  He's a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Digital Publication Accessibility Task Force. Rich also chairs the WAI-ARIA standards effort and co-chairs the W3C SVG Accessibility Task Force, both part of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

The session will be held on Thursday, April 2 from 3-4:30pm at Harvard University's Lamont Library in the Forum Room.  Non-Harvard guests are welcomed but must contact Denis or Jack to be on a list for admittance to the library.