Thailand APCD

Day 0 - Sir Edmond Guzman of MCCID College Tiaong, Quezon and Jojo in front of APCD PWD Friendly Service Bus

Day 1 - Participants and delegates in front of APCD Training Building

Day 1 - From Left: Ms. Rachmita Harahap. Deaf representative from Indonesia, Ms. Kurnia Ige, Interpreter from Indonesia, Sir Edmond and Sir Jojo

Day 2 - Mr. Reginaldo Tolentino of NCDA presents a summary of day one's activities.

Day 2 - Sir Edmond presents the summary of day one's activities.

Day 2 - Sir Jojo explains about NCDA website and web accessibility initiatives in the Philippines as part of the country report.

Day 3 - A Thai Visually Impaired resource person explains the different assistive devices used by PWDs in accessing the computer.

Day 4 - A visit at Suanlum Night Bazaar

Day 5 - Tour at Thailand's Grand Palace

Day 5 - APCD Delegates in front of Grand Palace

Day 5 - Sir Edmond behind Grand Palace

Day 6 - Bangkok's Victory Monument, a two-kilometer distance from APCD Training Center

Day 6 - Chanced meeting with local Thai Deaf congregating at McDonald's around Victory Monument

Day 7 - APCD Delegates at NECTEC

Day 7 - Thammasat University Disabled Student's Services Office

Day 8 - Joomla Training at APCD Computer Laboratory

Day 9 - Sir Edmond assists two participants from Thailand.

Day 9 - Sir Edmond using his newly purchased Acer Laptop

Day 10 - Mr. Dandy Victa of NCDA delivers his Joomla designed website.

Day 10 - Ms. Marlene Mariano of PWD Association of Makati City explains her Joomla designed website.

Day 10 - Philippine Team (From Left: Edmond Guzman, Jojo Esposa, Reggie Tolentino, Dandy Victa and Marlene Manalo)

Day 10 - Sir Edmond explains his Joomla designed website in sign language while Sir Jojo reverse interprets.

Day 10 - Ms. Wantanee of NECTEC presents web accessibility initiatives among Asian countries where Philippines gave a strong performance.

Day 10 - ICT Accessibility Initiatives in the Philippines video was presented to the delegates.

Day 10 - Delegates pose together with APCD Project Manager Ms. Kanitta Kamolwat after receiving their certificates of participation.

Day 10 - The interpreters (from left: Ms. Kurnia Igie of Indonesia, Ms. Wimol Khuntongchan of Thailand and Mr. Jojo Esposa of Philippines)

Day 11 - Inside APCD service bus (Clockwise: Dandy, Marlene, Ms. Waan from Thailand, Mr. Dara Eang of Cambodia, a lady from Thailand, Edmond, Jojo and Reggie)

Day 11 - Preparing to board Philippine Airlines to Manila

MCCID College Trainor Sir Edmond Guzman Jr. of Tiaong, Quezon and MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa Jr. attended the ten-day Regional Workshop on Accessible Web-based Information Networking in Bangkok, Thailand sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) from September 1 – 11, 2009.

Aside from the two, three other members from the Philippine Team include Mr. Dandy Victa and Mr. Reginaldo Tolentino of Technical Cooperation Division of the National Council on Disability Affairs and Ms. Marlene Mariano from Association of PWDs in Makati City. The team were the largest delegation.

APCD associate organizations from Asian countries like Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand also participated in the workshop. All expenses were paid by the organizers.

During the workshop, the participants were able to understand the concept of information accessibility for PWDs, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Disability Equality, Concept Information Accessibility for PWDs, Concept of Information Networking,
Assistive Devices for Information Accessibility and Information Networking (Disability Focus).

Hands-on training on Joomla Content Management System with focus on W3C/ WAI on different disability (visual, hearing, learning, etc), Accessible Content by CMS were also conducted. Each participant was able to create their own dummy websites which were presented and evaluated by APCD and NECTEC resource persons.

Web Accessibility Initiative Results Among Asian Countries

Web Accessibility Initiative Results Among Asian Countries

One highlight of the event was the NECTEC presentation where the Philippines showed a strong performance among Asian countries and fared well even from other developed countries. This was according to a study made by the University of Worshester Faculty of Computing, UK in 2007. The study was based on the Global E-government Web Accessibility, an Empirical Examination among EU, Asian and African Sites by Ms. Joanne Kuzma.