Launching of Web Accessibility Campaign, 25 Jun, 2009

serving the blind since 1951
PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENTS COUNCIL MEMBERS
YB Senator Prof Datuk Dr Ismail Dato' L Krishnan Prof. Datuk (Dr) Abdullah Mailm Baginda En. S. Hadi Abdullah
Bin Md. Salleh Mr. Liew Yoon Loy Prof. Dr. M. Chandra Sekaran (Dr) S. Radha Krishnan
Prof. Dato' Dr Veera Ramani Datin Fauziah Mohd Ramly Mr. S. Santhirasegaran
DEPUTY PRESIDENT Mr. P. Navaratnarajah Dato' Sayed A. Rahman Sayed Mohd.
Dato' S. Kulasegaran HON TREASURER Dr. P.O. Thomas Datin Tina Ali Kadir
Dato' Mohamad Iqbal Prof Dr. S. Balabaskaran Dr. Zakaria Osman
EX OFFICIO EX OFFICIO Secretary/
Dato' Meme Zainal Rashid En. Bong Muk Shin Executive Director
(Director General, Dept. Social Welfare, Malaysia) (Director, Dept. Special Education, Malaysia) Mr. George Thomas
MAB/ap/ict
17 June 2009
To the addressee,
Launch of Web Accessibility Campaign for Visually Impaired Persons by Deputy
Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation.
The Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) has been promoting access to information for the Blind
through ICT and multimedia (websites). MAB have started training personnel of IT Dept. at the Ministry of
Women, Family and Community Development to develop websites with W3C compliances by abiding various
concepts to achieve the above.
The Malaysian Association for the Blind is happy to announce that YB Tn Hj Fadillah Bin Yusof,
Deputy Minister of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations (MOSTI) will launch the Campaign for
Web Accessibility for the Blind as well as witness the MoU signing between Binary University College & MAB for
special projects on access for the Blind and cheque presentations from DENSO and Sony in promotion of ICT for
the Blind.
We would be most grateful if you could kindly attend this function. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Date: 25 June 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 9.30 am
Venue: Kompleks MAB (at Dewan MAB)
Jalan Tebing, Off Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4, 50470 Brickfields, K L
(Programme enclosed)
Yours sincerely
MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND
(George Thomas)
Executive Director
CC: YB Senator Prof Datuk Dr Ismail Md Salleh, President MAB