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Telecommunications & disability consumer representation

Publications

Publications - Conference presentations and papers

Selected TEDICORE papers and published articles outlining particular issues are listed. Please note that any presentations at international seminars and workshops were either funded by the host organisation or by other means. TEDICORE funding precludes international travel.


TEDICORE position papers

Disability Equipment Program: TEDICORE's submission on the development of a new Telecommunications Disability Program (RTF document, 126 kB)

VoIP and related IP-based communications services (RTF document, 76 kB)


Selected conference presentations

Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association (ARATA) Conference
17-20 October 2006, Fremantle
Topic: Information on accessibility features for telephone equipment
(Rob Garrett and Gunela Astbrink). The paper won the ARATA Soft Technology Award.

Deaf Telecommunications Access Network Forum
7 June 2006, Sydney
Topic: Overseas developments and possibilities for Australia

Consumers' Telecommunications Network Conference: Content, convergence and consumers
29-30 March 2006, Sydney
Topic: The 3 As: accessibility, affordability and availability of content in a converging environment

Australian IPv6 Summit 2005
31 October – 1 November 2005, Canberra
Topic: IPv6-based applications – accessibility and usability?

Telstra Consumer Consultative Council Forum on Mobile and Wireless Cultures
23 July 2004, Sydney
Topic: Future access and usability

International Symposium on ICT Accessibility in Asia Pacific Region
22 January 2004, Tokyo, Japan
Topic: ICT Accessibility in Australia

ETSI Conference on Accessibility for All
27th March 2003, Sophia Antipolis, France
Topic: Australia's legislative and regulatory actions in telecommunications (The presentation was tabled as due to lack of funding; Gunela Astbrink could not travel)

ACIF Seminar on Any-to-Any Text Connectivity
17 February 2003, Sydney
Topic: Any-to-any text connectivity - How do we get there?


Selected published papers (2002 to present)

(with J. Gill & P. Roe) 'From concept to reality' in Towards an inclusive future: accessibility for all to services and terminals for next generation networks, COST 219ter, Brussels, 2007.

Technology- opportunities and barriers in Deafness Forum Newsletter. No. 52, February 2007.

TEDICORE - Improving access to telecommunications for people with disabilities
in Accord, Journal of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, Spring 2004.

(with C. Newell) 'Towards enabling competition: Anomalies in the provision of disability equipment' in the Telecommunications Journal of Australia, Vol 52, No. 4, 2002.

(with C. Newell) 'Fostering access to telecommunications for Australians with disabilities - The TEDICORE approach in the Telecommunications Journal of Australia, Vol 52, No. 1, 2002.