When the Tide Comes In: Towards Accessible Telecommunications for People with Disabilities in Australia
When the Tide Comes In: Towards Accessible Telecommunications for People
with Disabilities in Australia
A discussion paper commissioned by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission
William Jolley, Chief Consultant
Jolley William & Associates
wjolley@bigpond.com
June 2003
List of Organisations, Projects and Their Websites
AccessAbility Online Resource
http://AccessAbility.noie.gov.au/
AccessAbility projects: summaries, reports and resources
http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_1-2_1-4_13560,00.html
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
http://www.access-board.gov
Alva Braille products
http://www.alvabraille.com/
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), home page
http://www.ada.gov
Australian Association of the Deaf
http://www.aad.org.au
Australian Bankers' Association
http://www.bankers.asn.au
Australian Communication Exchange
http://www.aceinfo.net.au
Australian Communications Authority
http://www.aca.gov.au
Australian Communications Industry Forum
http://www.acif.org.au
Blind Citizens Australia
http://www.bca.org.au
CCE 2003 conference program and proceedings
http://www.etsi.org/cce/programme.htm
Communications Law Centre
http://www.comslaw.org.au
Consumers' Telecommunications Network
http://www.ctn.org.au
CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities annual conferences
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.htm
Deafness Forum of Australia
http://www.deafnessforum.org.au
Deaf Telecommunications Access and Networking
http://www.aad.org.au/advocacy/dtan.htm
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
http://www.dcita.gov.au
Federal Communications commission disability issues home page
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/
Home page of the AIEAC National Bandwidth Inquiry
http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/environment/bandwidth/index.htm
Home page of the BAG Inquiry into Broadband Connectivity
http://www.noie.gov.au/publications/NOIE/BAG/report/
Home page of the NOIE Convergence Review
http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/framework/Foresight/convergence/index.h…
Home page of the Estens Telecommunications Regional Services Inquiry
http://www.telinquiry.gov.au/
Home page of the House of Representatives Inquiry into Wireless Broadband
Technologies
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/cita/Wbt/
Home page of the Senate Inquiry into the Australian Telecommunications
Network
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/ecita_ctte/tele_network/Index.htm
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Disability Rights)
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights
Internet society of Australia
http://www.isoc-au.org.au
Mobile Accessibility software
http://www.mobileaccessibility.com
Optus
http://www.optus.com.au
Royal National Institute for Deaf People
http://www.rnid.org.uk
Royal National Institute of the Blind
http://www.rnib.org.uk
Section 255 home page
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/section255.html
Section 508, home page
http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm
Symbian Ltd.
http://www.symbian.com
TALX software
http://www.talx.de/index_e.htm
Telecommunications Industry Development Plans
http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_1-2_1-3_143-4_112329,00.html
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman
http://www.tio.org.au
Telstra TTY payphones
http://www.telstra.com.au/disability/ttypayphones/index.htm
Telstra disability home page
http://www.telstra.com.au/disability/
Telstra disability equipment catalogue
http://www.telstra.com.au/disability/catalogue/index.htm
Tiresias database
http://www.tiresias.org
Trace research and development center
http://trace.wisc.edu
Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3.org/wai/
WISDOM project
http://www.mobilewisdom.org/
Women with Disabilities Australia
http://www.wwda.org.au
World Summit on the Information Society
http://www.itu.int/wsis/
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org