Biographies
Mike Paciello [Keynote Speaker]
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
WebABLE, Inc.
For over 18 years, Mike Paciello has been a technologist, professional
speaker, and consultant in the area of accessible interface design for
emerging technologies and advanced information systems. Mr. Paciello is
an international authority on Web accessibility and assistive technology
and is the author of the best selling book Web Accessibility for People
with Disabilities. He was chiefly responsible for creating and launching
the W3C' s Web Accessibility Initiative.
Starting his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Paciello served
as Program Manager for DEC's Vision Impaired Information Services office.
At DEC, Mr. Paciello produced the computer industry's first mainstream
CD-ROM containing electronic computer documentation that was completely
accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
As Founder and Chief Technology Officer of WebABLE, Inc., Mr. Paciello
has developed the software technology for an accessible personalization
system. WebABLE provides real-time accessibility technology to web sites
to insure Internet, Network, Software, and Web accessibility to people
with disabilities. WebABLE is dedicated to stimulating education, research,
and development of technologies that ensure equality of access to information
technology for all people.
Mr. Paciello co-founded the International Committee for Accessible Document
Design (ICADD), the organization that was responsible for establishing
standards for accessible electronic information (ISO 1208-3, ICADD-22)
and served as the predecessor to the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI).
Mr. Paciello has advised clients including The White House, Microsoft,
Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer, Easter Seals, Motorola, NCR,
Fidelity Investments, The Hartford, Disney, and the IRS.
An internationally sought-after speaker, Mr. Paciello has delivered
keynote speeches, seminars, and workshops to audiences and institutions
including the Telecommunications Industries Association, World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), CES, IEEE, COMDEX, NASA, NEA, Duke, Yale, MIT, NCSA,
NYU, CSUN, The Kennedy Center and many others.
Mr. Paciello is a member of the Internet Society, Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, Microsoft's
Accessibility Advisory Committee, and the HTML Writers Guild and served
as the first Executive Director of the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation.
He currently serves as a member of the Microsoft Accessibility Advisory
Board, the Federal Government Electronic and Information Technology Access
Advisory Board, and serves on a number of University, Government, Industry,
and International advisory and standards committees.
Jean
Balutanski
Jean
Balutanski is the director of the Office of Specialized Services at Ramapo
College of New Jersey which is a disability services office providing
support to 250 students. She oversees assistive technology services at
Ramapo College and teaches a graduate course called Introduction to Assistive
Technology in the college's Masters of Educational Technology program.
Jean first started working with assistive technology while employed at
the Rusk Institute, NYU Medical Center in New York. She is a certified
rehabilitation counselor and holds teaching certificates in special education
and educational supervision.
Amy Dell
Professor of Special Education
Director, Adaptive
Technology Center for NJ Colleges
Amy Dell is a professor of special education and director of the Adaptive
Technology Center for New Jersey Colleges at The College of New Jersey.
Anne Disdier is the coordinator of the Adaptive Technology Center for
New Jersey Colleges. They have worked together on several state and federally-funded
projects on assistive technology and edit TECH-NJ: Assistive Technology
for People with Disabilities, a print and online newsletter.
Patricia
Hendriks
Patricia
Hendriks is a technology coordinator with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology
in Education Consortium. She has a masters degree in educational technology
from the University of Michigan. For the past four years Ms. Hendriks
has worked with k-12 teachers helping them integrate technology into classroom
instruction.
Barbara
Keefe
MainePoint,
Director
Barbara Keefe currently works as a director of the MainePOINT (Providing
Opportunities to integrate New Techologies) project for the University
College System. Her work focuses on accessible distance learning and curriculum
collaboration with Maine public schools. She is working with the Governor
Baxter School for the Deaf to implement programs using asynchronous tranfer
mode (ATM) Maine's advanced telecommunications infrastructure. (1955-1958)
Keefe is the Northeast Technical Assistant Center (NETAC) site coordinator
in Maine and works with a consortia of post secondary schools to improve
services for students with disabilities.
She directed a research grant to develop, implement and evaulate an American
Sign Language class to high school students as a modern language over
Maine's telecommunication system (1995 - 2002)
Prior to her research grant (1992 - 1995) she served as training director
for MaineCITE (Maine's Technology AssistiveGrant) During this time she
developed in collaboration with cross disability groups interactive live
video teleconferences that were fully accessible.
Seham
Mohamed
Seham
Mohamed is coordinator of the Adaptive Technology Lab for Project Connections,
the Regional Center for College Students with Learning Disabilities, at
Middlesex County College. She graduated with highest honors from Alexandria
University with a B.S. in electrical engineering and earned a degree in
Computer Science from Middlesex County College.
Deborah Newton
Assistant Professor of Special Education
Deborah Newton is an assistant professor of special education at The
College of New Jersey. She is completing her doctorate in Instructional
Technology and Design/Curriculum and Instruction at the University of
Cincinnati. For five years she served as the assistive technology specialist
for the Center for Enabling Technology, a nonprofit computer resource
center for people with disabilities in Whippany, New Jersey.
Wolf Shipon
Wolf Shipon has worked in Instructional Technology at The College of
New Jersey for five years and is currently completing a master's degree
in counseling, which included an internship in the college's disability
support office. He will be pursuing a doctorate in counseling psychology
at Temple University beginning this fall.
Ellen
Specht
Ellen
Specht is the equipment loan coordinator and webmaster for the Adaptive
Technology Center for New Jersey Colleges at The College of New Jersey.
Barbara K. Strassman
Barbara K. Strassman is Coordinator of the teacher preparation Program
in Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at The College of New Jersey.
She serves as an Advisor on a NSF grant which utilizes Interactive Television
to improve science education and awareness of deaf/hard of hearing learners.
She also works with WGBH's Center for Accessible Media on their United
States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs grant
which has adapted the nationally acclaimed television show, Between the
Lions, for use by classroom teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing.
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