Access World offers good recap of CSUN 2008

Each year, the Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference is held in California. Perhaps you may know this international gathering better as CSUN, its unofficial name, which is derived from its original host site, the California State University at Northridge.

The American Foundation for the Blind’s online magazine
Access World
Has a good recap of this year’s edition of the event.

This ever-growing event has blossomed from an initial crowd of 200 to more than 4,500 participants in 23 years. The escalating number of attendees tends to tax the creativity of its organizers to find means of hosting the showcase while still accommodating the burgeoning crowds that come to see and hear from professionals in the fields related to assistive technology.

It is one of those events that is of high interest to me personally. Perhaps, next year, I might attend and be able to give some direct feedback. A man can dream, can’t he?

PDF Conference features session on accessibility and Section 508

It is very refreshing to see a big tech conference list accessibility as one of the featured presentations.

In a press release announcing the
2008 Adobe Acrobat and PDF Conference,
one of the listed sessions is titled “Accessible PDF: Tagging and Section 508.”

This is the sixth annual conference for the group, which claims to be the largest gathering of PDF professionals. It is April 30 – May 1 in Orlando, Florida.

Michael Eisner, the former CEO of the Walt Disney Company, is set as the opening speaker. Given that, I would say that this has to be a major tech conference. After all, when you’ve got a featured speaker like that, this ain’t no Mickey Mouse conference.

Free conference--United Spinal Association

How about a free professional conference?

Well, let me restate, it is free if you preregister.

The United Spinal Association is offering that great deal for the upcoming
2007 North American Spinal Cord Injury Conference & Disability Expo,
, which will take place August 27-29 in Orlando.

Granted, this conference is for a particular target audience, but this may be of interest to some readers specifically. And, can’t we all stand to expand our horizons?

If you are not interested, or are not able to attend, but know somebody who may be, please share this information with them.

The conference will be featuring the following organizations and the programs listed:

*American Paraplegia Society
53RD Annual Conference -

* American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
Embracing New Horizons In SCI Nursing -

*American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists & Social Workers
21ST Annual Conference -

* Therapy Leadership Council In Spinal Cord Injury
Reaching New Heights In SCI Therapy -

For more information on the participating organizations , or to preregister, go to the web site linked above.