EASI Free Webinar on the Chromebook Accessibility Thursday November 1 at 11 pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern Presenter: Laura (Palmaro) Allen | Google | Chrome & Chrome OS Accessibility Program Manager
Chromebook computers come with a variety of accessibility features built in, such as the ChromeVox screen reader, different types of magnification, braille support, and more. Join Laura, the Chrome and Chrome OS Accessibility Program Manager, to learn about the various features and functionalities built into Chrome OS that can help to make your experience more accessible and productive.
Because of airplane conflicts beyond our control, the AI accessibility webinar is moved from Thursday 25 to Friday 26 11 pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central or 2 Eastern Those who have registered will get a notice later today. If you don't get it, then we had a bad email for you. You can register between now and Thursday Midnight at http://easi.cc and select webinars and check for the AI webinar. Norm
EASI Free Webinar: Inclusive Design of Artificial Intelligence Thursday October 25 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and accessibility: will it enhance or impede accessibility for users with disabilities? Artificial intelligence used to be all about the distance future, but it has now become mainstream. It is already impacting us in ways we may not recognize. It is impacting us today already. It is involved in search engines. It is involved in the collecting of big data and analyzing it. It is involved in all the arguments about the way social media is being used to effect, or try to effect, our thinking
Below is the promised link to the Zoom Accessibility webinar. People wanted who we were using to do the captioning ecaptions.com (be sure to make it plural) http://easi.cc/archive/zoom/contents-for-Zoom-Accessibility-Webinar.htm
You also can find it at the top of the EASI home page easi.cc
EASI Free Zoom Video Conferencing and Accessibility Fri. 14
Friday September 14 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central or 2 Eastern
Presenters: Hadi Rangin, Jason Smith and Ken Ding from UW and Zoom
Zoom is a web conferencing software that is quickly becoming more widely used by educational institutions, government agencies, and various commercial companies. The University of Washington has been collaborating with Zoom for a couple of years to improve its accessibility and overall user experience. While there is still a ways to go to achieve full accessibility, we believe that Zoom has made great strides towards accessibility.
EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information provides month-long, asynchronous, online courses demonstrating how to make e-learning courses accessible for both students and faculty. This month-long course begins September 10 but late registrations will be accepted through Friday September 14. Everyone who completes the course will receive an EASI document of completion.
Mon. Sept. 10 at 11 pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Laura (Palmaro) Allen, Google Chrome & Chrome OS Accessibility Program Manager
Chromebook computers come with a variety of accessibility features built in, such as the ChromeVox screen reader, different types of magnification, braille support, and more. Join Laura to learn about the various features and functionalities built into Chrome OS that can help to make your experience more accessible and productive.
EASI 4-part Fee-based Series Accessible PowerPoint and Excel
September 18. 25, October 2 and 9, 2018
Times: 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Karen McCall
This four-part series takes an in-depth look at making PowerPoint and Excel content more accessible. While Karen has delivered sessions on PowerPoint accessibility as part of general document accessibility, this four-part series gives us a chance to delve into more of the tools that document authors have to optimize PowerPoint and Excel content for accessibility.
EASI has 2 Webinars scheduled for the next few weeks:
1 Zoom Video Conferencing:
This conferencing system has exploded on the Internet scene and it has worked hard to be accessible for people with disabilities. This webinar will demonstrate the power of this application and point out its features to assist users with disabilities. The date is planned for mid to late August. Register now and you will receive the date info by email as soon as it is confirmed. Look under webinars at http://easi.cc
June 28 Webinar: “Who Teaches About Accessibility in Computing Courses?”
The AccessComputing project, funded by the National Science Foundation, conducted a survey to find out how common it is for faculty at postsecondary institutions to teach about accessibility in their computing courses. This presentation By Richard Ladner, Andrew Ko, and Sheryl Burgstahler will share the results of this study and emphasize the importance of teaching future developers about accessible design principles and practices. Read more and register from http://easi.cc/clinic.htm Select webinars in June! Norm
The Basics of PDF Remediation: a fee-based 4-part Webinarseries
Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed.
April 3' 10, 17 and 24
Times: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central or 3 Eastern
This four part series introduces new features for PDF remediation professionals in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and provides a review of PDF 2 Tags for specific document components. Although the word “basics” is in the webinar title, those of us who remediate PDF documents often find ourselves quickly in the “advanced” remediation techniques. Some of those are covered in this webinar too! If you remediate PDF documents to be accessible for
EASI Webinar: Learn about IDEAL Group's Android Real-Time Text communications application
When? Thur. March 22 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central or 2 Eastern
Who? Presenter: Steve Jacobs: IDEAL Group, Inc. | Apps4Android, Inc. | Inftyreader Group, Inc.
Learn about IDEAL Group's new Android transcription Real-Time Text (RTT) communications application, Speech2RTT. It was designed to help more than 45 million
EASI Free Webinar: Speech2RTT: enables anyone hearing-impaired to talk in real time with anyone
Thursday March 22 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern Daylight
Presenter: Steve Jacobs: IDEAL Group, Inc. | Apps4Android, Inc. | Inftyreader Group, Inc.
Speech2RTT is an Android application that enables people who are deaf, hard of hearing, and non-verbal to communicate with anyone – using their Android smart phone or tablet. It works over cellular networks and for Wi-Fi calling. Speech2RTT captions, and then streams, the text of what is being said, in real-time, between individuals. If a user cannot speak, or
EASI Four-part Fee-based Series: `Read&Write 4-Part Webinars dates: February Tuesdays 6, 13, 20 and 27 Times: 11 Pacific, 12 Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern standard Presenters: Shaun Pate, Alternate Media Specialist from Cleveland University Roberrt Lee Beach, Assistive Technology Specialist at Kansas City Kansas Community College The largest number os students with disabilities are those with various visual and cognitive processing issues which we used to lump together as learning disabilities. The areas of support offered by Read&Write are: reading tools, writing tools, study tools and research tools. The 4 webinars will cover: Webina r1:
EASI Free Webinar: improvements to accessibility in Office
This one hour webinar will provide an overview of some of the new features that have been implemented over the past few months in Office 365/Office 2016. it is a good opportunity to get an idea of what some of the new tools and features are that support accessible document design and accessibility for document authors. Tuesday Jan. 16 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern.
EASI Webinar: Improvements in Office Accessibility
Microsoft has integrated new accessibility features into Office 365/Office 2016 helping even authors not aware of the need to create accessible documents in designing content that make their work more useful to readers with disabilities. When authors have to be aware of the need for accessibility and when they have to know how to include it in their work, it is easy to forget about accessibility or to conclude that it is not worth the bother. Not that a writer is forced to make the content accessible, but the authoring tool will remind them
Did you know that MS office now has its own accessibility checker?
EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is hosting a free 2-part webinar series on November 7 and 9with Karen McCall explaining what the checker can and cannot check. Automatic checkers can be a big help, but there are limits to what a machine can do.
EASI Free Webinar: CADET, NCAM's New Caption and Description Editing Tool
Thursday October 19 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenters:Geoff Freed, Bryan Gould
Summary: CADET is NCAM's free software for writing captions and descriptions.It runs in any browser and can export captions in file formats commonly used online today by most browsers and stand-alone media players.CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts. Once downloaded and installed, CADET does not require an internet connection in order to operate: it runs locally in any Web browser, so users do not need to upload private videos
Times: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
To read more, go to the link below and look for webinars in October
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
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Dolphin just announced a significant upgrade to read&Write which seems significantly changed!
Our webinar presenters do not want to provide out-of-date information!!!
We all decided to postpone it 2-3 months so the presenters could deliver the newest and relevant content!! If you have registered, we'll keep it for the new dates. Watch for update information in a couple months at either
EASI Webinar: Get and Read Accessible Books With Dolphin EasyReader EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) hosts a free webinar on Dolphin's new EasyReader
It simplifies finding and obtaining accessible books from several sources. It organizes and stores your books and documents It displays the content in accessible modes fo readers with disabilities can read
Times: 11 Pacific, 12 Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenters:
•Shaun Pate, Alternate Media Specialist from Cleveland University
•Roberrt Lee Beach, Assistive Technology Specialist at Kansas City Kansas Community College
Description: This 4-part webinar will highlight some of the key features of the program Read&Write. The areas of support offered by Read&Write are: reading tools, writing tools, study tools and research tools. Due to time constraints, it is not possible to show all tools
Times: 11 Pacific, 12 Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenters:
•Shaun Pate, Alternate Media Specialist from Cleveland University
•Roberrt Lee Beach, Assistive Technology Specialist at Kansas City Kansas Community College
Description: This 4-part webinar will highlight some of the key features of the program Read&Write. The areas of support offered by Read&Write are: reading tools, writing tools, study tools and research tools. Due to time constraints, it is not possible to show all tools in action. However, most of the tools will be demonstrated via video clips
EASI Free Webinar: Working with Columns in Microsoft Word and Tagged PDF
Most documents you write can be read from one margin to the other. There are times your content can be communicated best with a different display—a table or a column. Use semantic mark-up in creating these. The mark-up can guarantee that accistive technologies will be able to render these correctly.
Month-long, online, asynchronis course based on the book: ‘Making Online Teaching Accessible’
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Learning management systems are being used more and more both for distance learners and to support courses taught on campus. These systems are becoming accessible and, at the same time, provide help for faculty providers to create their content in an accessible format. The course will assist colleges in making a level learning space for all students.
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*4-part webinar: Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design*
Dates: June Tue. 6, Thur. 8, Tue. 20 and Thur. 22
Time: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word, Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171, Committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group
I cannot recall how the dates for the June webinar series got so messed up.
As soon as I can verify the dates with Karen, I'll resend the announcement and fix it on the web page
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EASI 4-part Fee-based webinar: Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design Dates: June Tue. 9, Thur. 11, Tue. 23 and Thur. 25
Time: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word, Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171, Committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group
Multimedia accessibility is advancing from alt text for images to providing audio description for the action in TV and movies.
You ought to try it!
Major cinemas are now equipped with audio descriptions on their movies and small personal devices for users to hear those descriptions. Stop at the customer help desk and ask for the device to provide audio descriptions for the blind and visually impaired. It plays a special sound track on the film. During gaps in the dialogue, the user can hear the recorded description of relevant actions.
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If your department budget is already running low, EASI wants to make it possible for you to attend this valuable 4-part webinar series on LMS systems
We have freed up scholarships for those unable to get financing for this series. Read about the series below, and you can apply for a scholarship from:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm
*Accessibility of LMS: Content, Creation and Delivery (a 4-part webinar series) *
EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information Webinar Promo P Free EASI Webinar: Free and Low-Cost Reading Tools for the Common Man
Presenter: Susan Kelmer, Alternate Format Production Program Manager at the University of Colorado Boulder
Thursday April 6
11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern (all daylight saving times)
You don’t need a reading disability to benefit from text-to-speech or other helpful tools that work with technology we already use. Beyond Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant, what other tools exist that may help you get through reading materials more quickly and with less distraction? And if you're
EASI Webinar: Making Electronic Information Accessible toAll
For many of us, the process has been slow, but it is encouraging and exciting to see that real progress is becoming a reality. Pearson is only one of many publishers dedicated to design more of their publications to be fully accessible.
This webinar is Tuesday March 28 at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central and 2pm Eastern
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm and look under March webinars
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New Tools Enable Students With Visual Impairments to Master Advanced Math
EASI Free Webinar: InftyReader Making Math More Accessible
Presenter: Steve Jacobs CEO of the IdealGroup
Thursday March 23 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
InftyReader is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application that recognizes and translates scientific documents (including math symbols) into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML!
Webinar: More Publishers Are Providing Accessible Ebooks
Pearson is an international publishing company, and it provides many books for the education market. The push for accessibility is spread through many departments.
*E`ebinar: Making Accessibility Work In Your Organization *
Tuesday March 28 at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central and 2pm Eastern
Question from EASI -- What is the InftyReader? This might be useful information. If not for you, then for some of your brighter students. The InftyReader makes advanced math more accessible for students with visual impairments opening high quality employment or opening the way to an advanced degree. "InftyReader is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application that recognizes and translates scientific documents (including math symbols) into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML! Optical character recognition (OCR) technologies are invaluable for improving access to printed materials by people with print disabilities.Most do not work well with scientific content. Scientific documents typically include mathematical
Accessible Document Design – 4 Part Fee-based Series
Presenter: *Karen McCall*
Dates: Feb. 2, 9, 16 and 23
Times: 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
This four part series takes a look at how to optimize Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF and PDF forms for accessibility and usability.
Week 1 – Word
What tools do you have in Word to optimize your documents for accessibility and usability...and where do you find them! What are the improvements to accessibility of Word documents from the perspective of someone using adaptive technology?
Thursday Jan. 12 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
You may have missed the announcements for this valuable Webinar with holidays and a vacation from work. Andrew will be presenting live from Australia
Andrew will begin with a brief introduction to Excel and will give some examples of when it is appropriate to use it as a form. He will then demonstrate some techniques for reducing confusion when using Excel with a screen reader including naming worksheets and hiding unnecessary cells. Participants will then be
EASI is eager to share the archive of a fabulous webinar
On Thursday Dec. 15 we had the privilege of sponsoring an informative and thoughtful webinar outlining from a publisher’s perspective the challenges posed by providing a fully accessible book. More, the webinar explained the difficulties of transforming a large and complex, international publishing corporation. It is both a technical anda corporate cultural transformation.
Thursday, June 23 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Publishers face both internal and external challenges to making accessible books. Some of these challenges are specific technical hurdles, others are more difficult cultural hurdles. Despite these challenges, publishers continue to move closer to accessible books. Some of the hurddles are:
*Alternative Format Documents Now Available to Residents of New York State*
Hundreds of thousands of New York residents have significant vision and/or hearing impairments, or other conditions that make reading typical small-print paperwork difficult or impossible. To improve access to information for people with disabilities, the state of New York has started a service to provide accessible versions of state government mailings to eligible state residents. The alternative format mailing program offers Braille, audio, and other versions of documents, free of charge, from several major state agencies.
*ccessible PDF Forms in Adobe Acrobat Pro Four Part Series *
Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word, Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171, committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group
(The audio of these 4 Webinars will be transcribed and made available shortly after each Webinar as part of its archive.)
Tripp regrets that his company has scheduled an important and last-minute meeting he needs to attend.
All people now registered will remain on that list and we’ll contact you when it is rescheduled. You can also check our webinar schedule page:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Again, I regret this inconvenience.
Norm
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Thursday, June 23 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Publishers face both internal and external challenges to making accessible books. Some of these challenges are specific technical hurdles, others are more difficult cultural hurdles. Despite these challenges, publishers continue to move closer to accessible books. Some of the hurddles are:
Revisiting An EASI Webinar: The Best From Yesterday
Jared Smith presents a series of 2 Webinars on WebAIM's accessibility checker. It stresses functional rather than technical accessibility simplifying Web accessability with a focus on the user's experience rather than bombarding you with complex, technical concepts. The checker helps the user learn about and understand accessibility and provides step-by-step changes to make the Web more user-friendly to people with various disabilities.
when you log in, besure to leave the password field empty!!
http://easi.cc/entrance.htm
Norm
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Members can register from the link below instead of going to the member-only page!!
EASI Free Webinar: Windows 10 and Accessability Presenter: Karen McCall August 25 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern Windows 10 has returned the start menu after its removal in Windows 8. It is richer and more complex than Windows 7 start menu. There are also several new features which will be explained.
EASI Free Webinar: Windows 10 and Accessability Presenter: Karen McCall August 25 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern Windows 10 has returned the start menu after its removal in Windows 8. It is richer and more complex than Windows 7 start menu. There are also several new features which will be explained.
Last Thursday Jared from WebAIM provided an unusually good webinar introducing their web accessability and all the changes and improvements to it.
Thur. Aug 11 he'll go into more depth.
Don't miss it.
times 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central, 2 Eastern
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Norm
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We were not able to line up the usual 4-part member webinar series over the summer. For that reason your memberships will be extended by 3 or 4 months.
We also made a change to our fee-based member webinar series. For years these have been 4-part series for $225. Now we will be offering both 2-part series and 4-part series.
EASI wants to update member info. If you are an annual member or part of an organization with membership, please fill out a short form to help us.
http://easi.cc/member-update.htm
Norm
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EASI is proud to have 2 large higher ed institutions provide its faculty and staff with free access to all of its fee-based Webinars and also discounts to its online courses.
We want to make it easier for the faculty and staff at U. Min. and at the CSU system to take advantage of this resource. We are providing a passworded member-only page and also a closed email distribution list providing regular member information. Relevant faculty and staff can fill out a short form asking for name, email and institution. This
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WE hosted a Webinar on collaborating with students in Google docx.
You can view the archive at
http://easi.cc/archive/alex2016/resources.htm
I plan to line up a couple Webinars on google accessability with docx, sheets and more.
It will probably late this fall or early in 2017.
Stay alert
Norm
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EASI Free Webinar: How Teachers and Students Can Work Together On The Same Document In The Canvas (lms)
Presenter: Stephen Alexander Marositz J.D. Assistive Technology Specialist Pasedina City College
Thursday July 14 at 11 Pacific noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Alex uses a screen reader to ollaborate online in Canvas with students. He will describe how it works as newer assistive tool developments enables a teacher or student to collaborate in creating and editing online content.
EASI Free Webinar: How Teachers and Students Can Work Together On The Same Document In The Canvas (lms)
Presenter: Stephen Alexander Marositz J.D. Assistive Technology Specialist Pasedina City College
Thursday July 14 at 11 Pacific noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Alex uses a screen reader to ollaborate online in Canvas with students. He will describe how it works as newer assistive tool developments enables a teacher or student to collaborate in creating and editing online content.
*EASI Free Webinar: How Teachers and Students Can Work Together On The Same Document In The Canvas (lms) *
Presenter: Stephen Alexander Marositz J.D. Assistive Technology Specialist Pasedina City College
Thursday July 14 at 11 Pacific noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Alex uses a screen reader to ollaborate online in Canvas with students. He will describe how it works as newer assistive tool developments enables a teacher or student to collaborate in creating and editing online content.
Thursday, June 23 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Publishers face both internal and external challenges to making accessible books. Some of these challenges are specific technical hurdles, others are more difficult cultural hurdles. Despite these challenges, publishers continue to move closer to accessible books. Some of the hurddles are:
EASI has a number of Webinars already scheduled for the summer including 3 in June. The first one will help you compare your experiences with those of a number of your colleagues!
EASI Free Webinar: Words of wisdom and helpful hints for those who are new to the field, from those who have worked with postsecondary students with disabilities
EASI Free Webinar: Introducing CAMI, the Center for Accessible Materials Innovation,A First in the World Project at Georgia Tech Presenter: Robert Martinengo, Project Co-Director, Georgia Tech Tuesday May 24 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Read more and register at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm and look under May.
Norm
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Consider AN EASI Annual Webinar Membership EASI has both individual and institutional annual Webinar memberships
Benefits: Free access to the fee-based Webinars Discount access to all month-long, online courses Access to the archives of 3 plus years of past Webinars The satisfaction of knowing that your membership is helping to enable all of EASI activitie EASI is a non-profit organization, committed to the belief that students and professionals with disabilities have the same right to access information technology as everyone else.
*EASI Free Webinar: Words of wisdom and helpful hints for those who are new to the field, from those who have worked with postsecondary students with disabilities *
Presenter: Cindy Poore-Pariseau, Ph.D.and Doreen Gardne rBristol Community College
Thursday June 9 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
*EASI Free Webinar: E-Learning Accessibility: What Does An Instructor Need to Know?"*
A week ago, EASI hosted a Webinar on using Youtube to do some captioning. It is about 30 minutes long. It is currently available from the EASI homepage (easi.cc) and from the nav bar you can access the archive of previous Webinars. Youtube will be the rotating Webinar for a couple of weeks.
Also we are lining up Webinars from now till the end of 2016. Go to http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Tuesday May 3 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
ARIA ("Accessible Rich Internet Applications") is an official W3C specification that is designed to help assistive technologies understand the roles, states and properties of the various components that make up modern web pages. This specification became an official "W3C Recommendation" in March 2014, yet many people are still confused by it. This session seeks to demystify ARIA and explain it, with examples, in a way that even non-developers can understand. The session is designed for
Thursday April 28 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Laura will explain how to upload a video to Youtube and discuss which formats Youtube will accept. Youtube also can automatically turn the spoken content of the video into actual captions.
go to http://easi.cc/clinic.htm and look for April Webinars.
EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information Home "Amazon and the National Federation of the Blind
"Amazon and the National Federation of the Blind will collaborate on improvements to Amazon's education content, platforms, and applications, and will meet on an ongoing basis to review progress and exchange ideas and feedback..." Amazon welcomes the agreement, according to spokeswoman StephanyRochon. "We are seeing more educational institutions embrace digital learning, and this shift provides a great opportunity to improve accessibility for blind students," she said in an email. "We look forward to collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind to work together..."
EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information Home
Norm's Reflections on last week's CSUN conference
These remarks are personal, and other attendees will paint a different picture. The meeting rooms, the exhibit hall and the lobby seemed maybe even more crowded than ever. I went with an interest in anything related to ePub3, Google, Android and Amazon which colors my experience.
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EASI Free Webinar: Providing Accessible Media using Able Player
Presenter: Terrill Thompson from U. Washington
Tuesday March 15 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Able Player is a free, open source, accessible media player for playing video on web pages. It has a wide variety of accessibility features, including fully accessible buttons and controls, support for closed captions and foreign language subtitles, support for audio description (using two different methods), sychronized sign language, adjustable playback speed, chapters (for adding navigation and structure to your video) and an interactive transcript. This session will explore these and many
Thursday March 10 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Some graphics are adequately described in words, but really important graphics are not. A tactile diagram is useful to only a very few blind braille readers. The only known way to make graphics accessible to nearly all people with print disabilities is by audio/touch.
EASI has a webinar Thur. Feb. 11 where we are asking for you to join us and brainstorm together for future Webinars and presenters. See the list of scheduled and planned Webinars further down this page
You can register for this Webinar from http://easi.cc/clinic.htm or just show up at http://easi.cc/entrance.htm
Times: 11 pacific, noon mountain, 1 central and 2 eastern Please have a working mic and we will have participant mics enabled. The text chat is ok for comments but poor for real discussion and sharing. So check your speakers and mic. You'll get best results running Windows and Internet
*EASI has a new Webinar archive available on the homepage. *
Misty Patinelli, MA from Wake Technical Community College presented
Using Web Technology for Distribution of Accessible E-books for Students
Misty headed a project to integrate the process of creating and delivering alternate texts for online students into the actual online course where the student was registered. Organizing this required including activities of several departments. The result is a seemless, integrated system.
EASI Webinar part 1: Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio
Presenter: Susanne Van Dorpe Mistric, Instructor/Coordinator Distance Learning – Individualized Learning Center Wade Technical Community College
Monday Feb. 1 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern
Susanne provides beginner-level training for WTCC staff on adding captions and audio description to Media. The goal is to take people with little technical skill in how to create descriptions of audio content and then synchronize it with the media. Students also need to be aware
the $9 CHIP computer This is extracted from the NPR broadcast January 21 The first Mac computer which came out in 1984, cost nearly $2,500, and now the $9 CHIP computer is only $9, has 4 gigabytes of storage and fits in the palm of your hand. It can connect to Wi-Fi and has Bluetooth. you can also connect a keyboard, and mouse which are not included. CHIP's Kickstarter campaign raised $2 million. The NPR report made no mention of its operating system or about its ability to work with assistive applications.
the $9 CHIP computer This is extracted from the NPR broadcast January 21 The first Mac computer which came out in 1984, cost nearly $2,500, and now the $9 CHIP computer is only $9, has 4 gigabytes of storage and fits in the palm of your hand. It can connect to Wi-Fi and has Bluetooth. you can also connect a keyboard, and mouse which are not included. CHIP's Kickstarter campaign raised $2 million. The NPR report made no mention of its operating system or about its ability to work with assistive applications.
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I am sorry about Tuesday. My provider has our site up and working. The series dates now are Tue 19, thur. 21, tue. 26 and Tue. Feb. 2 Login will still be at http://easi.cc/entrance.htm
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There are several scholarships available for the 4-part Webinar series starting tomorrow Jan. 19
Karen is doing an update on PDF accessibility. Adobe has an update and the new universal standards for PDF both effect you if you want to stay up-to-date! I recommend you attend one or more of these 4
(Registration is $350 with a discount for EASI Annual members
(Because of the holidays in December, students will be able to stretch the allotted time to fit his/her schedule)
The task of the trainer is made difficult because he or she will need to have at least a beginner's skill on several different adaptive technologies and have a broad understanding of various disabilities to provide such people with what they will need to know to get started on using today's information technology. This course will provide
Functional Accessibility Evaluator, AInspector Sidebar and Accessibility Bookmarklets
Presenter: Jon Gunderson, University of Illinois
Thursday Dec. 3: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern standard
The Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) 2.0 is designed to evaluate and summarize the accessibility of an entire website and AInspector Sidebar is a Firefox add-on to inspect and highlight accessibility problems and features on individual pages. Both tools are open source tools and they evaluate accessibility based on the requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.0. WCAG 2.0 is an international standard and part of the Section 508 refresh
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Here is more content about the optional text for Barrier-free E-learning
/Making Online Teaching Accessible/
The link below will take you to a short narrated presentation about the book. Each page has a ‘play’ button to play the audio and a ‘next’ link to move forward to the next slide. Play the presentation from:
This month-long course is taught online and you work at your own pace. The structure encourages you to complete it in a month, but extra time can be arranged if needed.
The optional text book is /Making Online Teaching Accessible/ which is available from Amazon and from Bookshare.
Week 1: Accessible Online Learning Is a Three-legged Stool
We had an old twitter that sat idle. We have just set up a new one, and I will try to make it another place to keep you up-to-date on accessible information technology If you are on twitter, come join me: Our twitter name is easi_it
EASI Webinar Special Bonus EASI is offering a bonus that will let you join the 4-part Webinar series by Karen McCall on advanced features in Microsoft Word. Most of us use the same 10-20 features we taught ourselves a long time ago. We know there are other features that would benefit us, but we never take the time to hunt through the hundreds of Word features to see what's there and to learn them. At least, I confess that is my situation. Most of us author our work in Word and then sometimes repurpose it for other file formats. It
We sent out the info for logging in today. It appears the spreadsheet included a number of other people If you are one of the other, you are welcome to join us anyhow
However if you registered for the series and did not get the login, today at 11 pacific, noon mountain, 1 Central and 2 eastern
Friday Sept. 11 at 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern
Twitter can be a great way to keep up with family, friends, news, and much more. Join us to learn some tips and tricks on using JAWS to access the Twitter.com website along with other accessible ways to access Twitter.
Near the bottom of the mail about 2 upcoming conferences, the mail also told about a month-long course on creating more accessible electronic documents
Accessing Higher Ground, November 16 - 20, 2015, Presented by AHEAD
Early-bird Registration is available until September 23, 2015
Join us November 16 - 20 at the Westin Westminster in Colorado for a week of workshops, labs, and networking! AHG focuses on the implementation and benefits of accessible media, Universal Design, and Assistive Technology in the university, business, and public setting.
EASI has five series planned for this academic year. Two are scheduled in September and October. Three more are being finalized for next winter and spring.
·Beginner-Intermediate PowerPoint 4-part series (scheduled in September)
·EASI Fee-based, 4-part Series: Word 2013: Beyond the Basics (scheduled in October)
·Alt-media Creation and Production (tentatively in November-December)
EASI FREE WEBINAR: NFB-NEWSLINE INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF CURRENT COMMERCIAL MAGAZINES (sept. 22)
This free EASI Webinar provides an update on NFB-NEWSLINE
Presenter: Scott White, Director of Sponsored Technology Programs, National Federation of the Blind
Tuesday September 22, 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern
The National Foundation of the Blind's NFB-NEWSLINE provides well over 300 newspapers including 4 in Spanish and more than 40 magazines and is still growing is at last making it possible for blind individuals to gain access to the information in newspapers at the same time as their sighted colleagues, friends, and family
NOTE AS OF ThuR. AFTERNOON THE EASI SITE IS OFFLINE. SHOULD BE BACK SOON!!!!Free EASI Webinar: Updating the Diagram Center to Enhance Image accessibility
Tuesday August 18 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Lisa Wadors
"As digital content is quickly shifting to include richer, more visual components like complex graphics, simulations and interactives, the need to make images accessible has become ever more pressing. To address this need, Benetech launched the DIAGRAM Center—a research and development hub working to set standards, generate best practices and design tools to ensure that images found in digital content
Free EASI Webinar: Updating the Diagram Center to Enhance Image accessibility
Tuesday August 18 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Lisa Wadors
"As digital content is quickly shifting to include richer, more visual components like complex graphics, simulations and interactives, the need to make images accessible has become ever more pressing. To address this need, Benetech launched the DIAGRAM Center—a research and development hub working to set standards, generate best practices and design tools to ensure that images found in digital content (like eBooks) are accessible to everyone."
* Presenter Norm Coombs, CEO Equal Access to Software and Information
* Dates: Thursdays Sept. 10, 17, 24 and October 1
Creating Accessible PowerPoint Content by Learning Its Accessible Features
(Fee-based Webinar series are free to annual members and scholarships are also available for others)
These four weeks will be designed for non-technical content providers. Once the creator learns the basics of this tool, making content fully accessible for students with disabilities using assistive technologies will not be burdensome.
Two EASI August Free Webinars: The Diagram Center and Twitter Accessibility
Free EASI Webinar: Updating the Diagram Center to Enhance Image accessibility
Tuesday August 18 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Lisa Wadors
"As digital content is quickly shifting to include richer, more visual components like complex graphics, simulations and interactives, the need to make images accessible has become ever more pressing. To address this need, Benetech launched the DIAGRAM Center—a research and development hub working to set standards, generate best practices and design tools to ensure that images found in digital content (like eBooks)
EASI Webinar: postsecondary computer science and engineering courses Tue. Aug. 4
EASI Webinar: postsecondary computer science and engineering courses
This week's EASI free Webinar is "incorporating disability/accessibility/universal design topics into postsecondary computer science and engineering courses." It is based primarily on Work being done at the University of Washington. Sheryl Burgstahler hosts a discussion with 2 computer science instructors and 1 mechanical engineering instructor. There is a growing conviction that raising faculty awareness of the accessibility and universal design inclusion into engineering courses, this awareness and the skill to accomplish it must become part of the courses where future faculty
* Presenter Norm Coombs, CEO Equal Access to Software and Information
* Dates: Thursdays Sept. 10, 17, 24 and October 1
Creating Accessible PowerPoint Content by Learning Its Accessible Features
(Fee-based Webinar series are free to annual members and scholarships are also available)
These four weeks will be designed for non-technical content providers. Once the creator learns the basics of this tool, making content fully accessible for students with disabilities using assistive technologies will not be burdensome.
EASI Webinar Archive: Accessible, Wearable Computing EASI has an archive of 3 plus years of Webinar archives. These are normally reserved for EASI Annual Members, but the EASI homepage provides a rotating example from this archive. Currently you can view the archive of last mont's Webinar on accessible Wearable computing which demonstrates devices such as: glasses which can identify obstacles smart watches which can display incoming text messages, monitor exercise, blood pressure, etc. various prosthetics enhanced by micro processors EASI Webinar Archive: Accessible, Wearable Computing EASI has an archive of 3 plus years of Webinar archives. These
EASI Webinar Archive: Accessible, Wearable Computing EASI has an archive of 3 plus years of Webinar archives. These are normally reserved for EASI Annual Members, but the EASI homepage provides a rotating example from this archive. Currently you can view the archive of last mont's Webinar on accessible Wearable computing which demonstrates devices such as: glasses which can identify obstacles smart watches which can display incoming text messages, monitor exercise, blood pressure, etc. various prosthetics enhanced by micro processors EASI Webinar Archive: Accessible, Wearable Computing EASI has an archive of 3 plus years of Webinar archives. These
EASI Webinar Archive: Accessible, Wearable Computing EASI has an archive of 3 plus years of Webinar archives. These are normally reserved for EASI Annual Members, but the EASI homepage provides a rotating example from this archive. Currently you can view the archive of last mont's Webinar on accessible Wearable computing which demonstrates devices such as: glasses which can identify obstacles smart watches which can display incoming text messages, monitor exercise, blood pressure, etc. various prosthetics enhanced by micro processors EASI Webinar Archive: Accessible, Wearable Computing EASI has an archive of 3 plus years of Webinar archives. These
Some of you who have been around a while may know or remember Joe Lazzaro, who ran the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Technology Program and wrote two books about Assistive Technologies -- Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments, and Adapting PCs for Disabilities. Joe passed away suddenly on November 18th.
Very sorry to hear of Joe's passing. Joe and I served together as contributing editors on the first iteration of EASI's journal, Information Technology and Disabilities, which is preparing to put together a 20th anniversary issue. Hopefully there can be a little tribute to Joe when the issue comes out in 2014. I'll certainly miss his presence on the Internet.
ALA Annual ASCLA Universal Access Interest Group meeting*
Sunday June 30, 2013 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm Hyatt Regency McCormick Place<http://ala13.ala.org/node/10247> Superior. The ASCLA Universal Access Interest group promotes inclusive library services through sharing information and resources.
v Space on ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/154856
ALA Annual LITA/ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group meeting* Monday, July 1, 2013 - 8:30am to 10:00am Hyatt Regency Chicago<http://ala13.ala.org/node/11919> Soldier Field The LITA/ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group is intended as a resource and discussion forum for library disability service issues such as web accessibility, assistive technology, reference and instruction for users with disabilities, captioning processes, and any other
Register for Psychology of Women PSY-217-IN, Late Start Psychology of Women PSY-217-INF2, and/or Psychology of Persons with Disabilities PSY-227-IN1. These Internet courses are being offered at Middlesex County College (Edison, New Jersey) during the Fall 2013 Session
Since the 3 credit courses are completely online, you can attend any time during the day or night. As long as you are an active learner, I will do my best to help you succeed. Remember, I am only an e-mail away. [log in to unmask]
EASI Free Webinar: A Model for Accessible LMS Discussion Boards Monday June 3: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern Presenters: 1. Hadi Rangin, Information Technology Accessibility & Collaboration coordinator Disability Resources & Educational Services University of Illinois 2. Michael McKelvey: Coordinator of Engagement Technology & New Media, Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education, College of Education, University of Illinois
EASI Free Webinar: WCAG - Do screen reader users take full advantage of Their Screen Reader? Friday May 31: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern (daylight)
Presenter 1: Birkir Gunnarsson, Electronic Accessibility Officer, Blindrafelagid, Iceland Organization for the VisuallyImpaired and Accessibility Subject Matter Expert, Deque Systems) Presenter 2: Hinni Hreinsson, Assistive Technology Trainer, Stockholm Low Vision Center
EASI Free Webinar: Tobi: an authoring tool for DAISY and EPUB3 talking books Thursday May 30: US times 8:30 AM Pacific, 9:30 Mountain, 10:30 Central and 11:30 Eastern 15:30 UTC, 16:30 UK, 17:30 Central Europe, 21:00 India. Presenters: Avneesh Singh from DAISY Consortium, Obi/Tobi project manager, software developer Daniel Weck, DAISY Consortium, Software developer
EPUB3 is the ebook standard recommended for both mainstream and accessible publishing. Tobi supports the DAISY3 and EPUB3 talking book formats, and provides tools to upgrade existing content to the new standard. Learn about EPUB3 features, and about Tobi production workflows.
Attached is information about an upcoming Project ENABLE webinar sponsored by the Center for Digital Literacy and Burton Blatt Institute. All are welcome! Please reply directly to the contact listed in the attachment [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Adina Mulliken Subject Librarian for Social Work, Disability Studies, CFS, MFT, Aging Library Disability Services Bird Library 222 Waverly Ave Syracuse, NY 13244 Phone: 315-443-9519
This survey is by a dependable accessibility group:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/mobile/
Norm
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Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010 http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html
EASI Webinar: MS Office is coming--but are you READY!
January 8 EASI hosts Karen McCall talking about MS Office, changes andaccessibility.
Tuesday January 8 Times 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern (all standard) Karen likes to live on the cutting edge of change, and she is always a trail blazer. Come, listen, learn and ask your questions.
Call for Proposals for the 5th Annual Digital Accessibility Expo (DAE) 2013
UIC Forum 725 W Roosevelt Rd. Chicago, IL 60608 April 22, 2013
Making digital information accessible has moved beyond the "text only" link on a Web site. Digital information needs to be informative, dynamic, and beautiful for everyone to access. The standards have been raised, and new techniques in digital design allow for accessibility for people with disabilities and also conform to high standards in artistic web design.
Creating Multimedia Made Simple, an EASI 4-part Webinar Series Starting on December 13 and 20 with the remaining Webinars in the series scheduled for January 2013
Multimedia on the Web continues to explode with Youtube still taking the lead. Multimedia presentations can be complex, sophisticated and very complicated to create, but this series will focus on creating multimedia with more simple authoring tools it will include exercises and will expect participants to create actual multimedia during the series. We want to stress hands-on assignments enabling participants to become multimedia creators during the 4-part series. You can read more about this
Simple Multimedia using PowerPoint, Lecshare Wizard and Camtasia a 4-part fee-based series This series will include hands-on exercises both during the Webinar and during the week Thur. Dec. 13, 20 and Thur. Jan 10, 17 Times: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern Standard Presenters: Norman Coombs and Marisol Miranda - Both from EASI
EASI Free Webinar: IMS Access for All version 3: accessibility through personalization Monday Dec 17th, 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2pm Eastern Presenters: Anastasia Cheetham, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University Andy Heath, Axelrod Access for All Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media Rich Schwerdtfeger, IBM
This access for all project is a ground-breaking project that seeks to let each person connect with the Web in ways that will automatically taylor the experience to fit precisely into that person's specific needs and preferences. It holds the potential for an amazing revolution in
Could anyone suggest an accessible online video player? Any advice about how accurate this list I found on Penn State's website is? QuickTime, RealPlayer, iTunes<http://accessibility.psu.edu/podcasts>, YouTube<http://accessibility.psu.edu/youtubecaptions> and properly configured JW Player<http://wac.osu.edu/examples/jwpc/> I was not able to get Jaws to access the buttons on Youtube, so I was a little unsure about this list. Thanks!
Coming EASI Webinars: EASI 4-part Webinar Series on Creating Quality and Accessible pdf. Soon to be announced: EASI Free Webinar on the Accessibility Features of Adobe Digital Editions 2
EASI 4-part Webinar Series on Creating Quality and Accessible pdf. The presenter is Karen McCall from Canada. Karen is an evaluator for Adobe and Microsoft and won awards for her work. Karen also has books on her Web site on accessibility in Word and PDF. These are detailed and extremely professional. You may have taken a previous PDF 4-part series with Karen. Remember software is upgraded all the time. Also, if
Please remove me from this mailing list. Thanks jor
-----Original Message----- From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012 3:12 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: EASI Webinars on PDF Accessible and the Adobe Digital E-reader
Coming EASI Webinars: EASI 4-part Webinar Series on Creating Quality and Accessible pdf. Soon to be announced: EASI Free Webinar on the Accessibility Features of Adobe Digital Editions 2
Got my own request back! There must be someone who admins this group? Or a moderator? Does anyone know how to unsubscribe? The email body doesn't contain any 'unsubscribe' info. Rgds jor
-----Original Message----- From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John O'Reilly Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012 3:14 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: EASI Webinars on PDF Accessible and the Adobe Digital E-reader
You can do that from the web interface at http://listserv.icors.org/scripts/wa-ICORS.exe?SUBED1=easi&A=1 --Steve Noble ________________________________________ From: Equal Access to Software & Information [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of John O'Reilly [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:19 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: EASI Webinars on PDF Accessible and the Adobe Digital E-reader Got my own request back! There must be someone who admins this group? Or a moderator? Does anyone know how to unsubscribe? The email body doesn't contain any 'unsubscribe' info. Rgds jor -----Original Message----- From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John O'Reilly Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012
Besides learning about designing Web pages that will be fully accessible to people with disabilities, how can I tell if what I did really works?
The best way for you to do that is by obtaining and using a Firefox toolbar called, WAVE. Because it is a toolbar, it is available to you anywhere you can go with the Firefox browser...anywhere on the Web including behind a password, in any Learning Management System and even on your own hard drive. EASI is hosting a Webinar on the WAVE toolbar for Firefox presented by Jared Smith from WebAIM which created and
Registration is open for two free events on digital accessibility taking place in October. The first is the fourth Accessibility Camp D.C. on Saturday October 13 http://accesscampdc12.eventbrite.com. The second is one I am co-leading, the first Accessibility Camp Los Angeles on Saturday October 20 http://www.accessibilitycampla.org.
The premise for both events is the same, to bring members of the design, development, usability, accessibility, related IT communities, and users with disabilities together to discuss all aspects of digital accessibility, from technical to tactical. There is no assumed level of knowledge on the topic, and the mood of the day is deliberately
hi. are these events, being recorded. as if it is morning, i am still asleep in australia. Marvin. On 9/12/2012 12:55 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote: > Hello. > > Registration is open for two free events on digital accessibility taking > place in October. The first is the fourth Accessibility Camp D.C. on > Saturday October 13 http://accesscampdc12.eventbrite.com. The second is > one I am co-leading, the first Accessibility Camp Los Angeles on Saturday > October 20 http://www.accessibilitycampla.org. > > The premise for both events is the same, to bring members of the design, > development, usability, accessibility, related
Is this course avail online for those unable to travel?
-----Original Message----- From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennison Mark Asuncion Sent: September 11, 2012 10:56 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: free Accessibility events in DC Oct 13 & LA Oct 20
Hello.
Registration is open for two free events on digital accessibility taking place in October. The first is the fourth Accessibility Camp D.C. on Saturday October 13 http://accesscampdc12.eventbrite.com. The second is one I am co-leading, the first Accessibility Camp Los Angeles on Saturday October 20 http://www.accessibilitycampla.org.
Marvin. This was a promotional event advertised on the EASI listserv. It is NOT an EASI sponsored event. I don't know more about them than what you read At 09:02 PM 9/11/2012, you wrote: > hi. >are these events, being recorded. >as if it is morning, i am still asleep in australia. >Marvin. >On 9/12/2012 12:55 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote: >>Hello. >> >>Registration is open for two free events on digital accessibility taking >>place in October. The first is the fourth Accessibility Camp D.C. on >>Saturday October 13 http://accesscampdc12.eventbrite.com. The second is >>one I am co-leading, the first Accessibility
Both events are intended to be face-to-face. I can say for L.A.'s event that there might be some recording, but I can't guarantee. I'll certainly let folks know if that's the case.
Jennison
> At 09:02 PM 9/11/2012, you wrote: >> hi. >>are these events, being recorded. >>as if it is morning, i am still asleep in australia. >>Marvin. >>On 9/12/2012 12:55 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote: >>>Hello. >>> >>>Registration is open for two free events on digital accessibility taking >>>place in October. The first is the fourth Accessibility Camp D.C. on >>>Saturday October 13 http://accesscampdc12.eventbrite.com. The second is
EASI Announces 2 Webinars in September 1: Four-part Series: Accessibility of Angel, Sakai, Desire2Learn and
Moodle 2: EASI Free Webinar: the growing presence of digital
learning materials in K-12 settings and the challenges to access
1: EASI fee-based 4-part Webinar series on LMS Accessibility Tuesdays September 18, 25, October 2 and 9 time: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM eastern EASI provides new payment options Besides the option of registering for the entire 4 Webinars, there
EASI Online Course in September: Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Documents EASI 4-week course starting Tuesday September 3 The content is all available online meaning you can work from anywhere and at any time.
When content is digitized it has the possibility of being created in different authoring tools and exported to a wide variety of formats for a variety of situations. The main thing the author needs to do is to create the document using correct semantic markup and to organize the content clearly. Instead of learning different authoring programs, create the content using the inherent document markup which
I would like to invite all of you to attend the event being hosted by my office at UC Irvine below:
Robert Espero AT/IT Manager UC Irvine
Disability Services Center
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REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please visit:
http://edseminars.apple.com/event/D569r-ueZ3q
More infor at: http://www.disability.uci.edu/apple-accessibility.htm
Accessibility - Built-in Not Bolted On
Apple builds accessibility in all of their operating systems (OSs)- in MacBooks, iMacs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV. Other products require additional adaptive tools like JAWS or Window-Eyes often doubling or even tripling the cost of the systems. Most, if not all, MP3 players don't offer any visibility or hearing enhancements, either
hi. well can you send me the mp3 recordings, as in australia and blind and interested. thanks. Marvin. On 8/7/2012 8:34 AM, Robert Espero wrote: > > Hello Listers! > > I would like to invite all of you to attend the event being hosted by > my office at UC Irvine below: > > Robert Espero > AT/IT Manager > UC Irvine > > Disability Services Center > > --- > > REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please visit: > > http://edseminars.apple.com/event/D569r-ueZ3q > > More infor at: http://www.disability.uci.edu/apple-accessibility.htm > > Accessibility - Built-in Not Bolted On > > Apple builds accessibility in
This is not an EASI event. It is being held onsite live In Irvine California. At 06:02 PM 8/6/2012, you wrote: > hi. >well can you send me the mp3 recordings, as in australia and blind and >interested. >thanks. >Marvin. >On 8/7/2012 8:34 AM, Robert Espero wrote: >>Hello Listers! >> >>I would like to invite all of you to attend the event being hosted by my >>office at UC Irvine below: >> >>Robert Espero >>AT/IT Manager >>UC Irvine >>Disability Services Center >>--- >> >>REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please visit: >><http://edseminars.apple.com/event/D569r-ueZ3q>http://edseminars.apple.com/event/D569r-ueZ3q >>More infor at: >><http://www.disability.uci.edu/apple-accessibility.htm>http://www.disability.uci.edu/apple-accessibility.htm >> >>Accessibility - Built-in Not Bolted On >>
hi. well. cannot attend, as in australia. maybe you could post the recording on the website. sorry for bothering you. Marvin. On 8/7/2012 1:00 PM, Prof Norm Coombs wrote: > This is not an EASI event. It is being held onsite live In Irvine > California. > At 06:02 PM 8/6/2012, you wrote: >> hi. >> well can you send me the mp3 recordings, as in australia and blind >> and interested. >> thanks. >> Marvin. >> On 8/7/2012 8:34 AM, Robert Espero wrote: >>> Hello Listers! >>> >>> I would like to invite all of you to attend the
I am sorry but I have NOTHING to do with that event. It was advertised on the listserv and it is totally out of my hands. At 09:28 PM 8/6/2012, you wrote: >hi. >well. >cannot attend, as in australia. >maybe you could post the recording on the website. >sorry for bothering you. >Marvin. >On 8/7/2012 1:00 PM, Prof Norm Coombs wrote: >>This is not an EASI event. It is being held onsite live In Irvine California. >>At 06:02 PM 8/6/2012, you wrote: >>> hi. >>>well can you send me the mp3 recordings, as in australia and blind and >>>interested. >>>thanks.
hi. can i have rboerts e-mail so i can e-mail him direct. thanks. Marvin. On 8/7/2012 8:34 AM, Robert Espero wrote: > > Hello Listers! > > I would like to invite all of you to attend the event being hosted by > my office at UC Irvine below: > > Robert Espero > AT/IT Manager > UC Irvine > > Disability Services Center > > --- > > REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please visit: > > http://edseminars.apple.com/event/D569r-ueZ3q > > More infor at: http://www.disability.uci.edu/apple-accessibility.htm > > Accessibility - Built-in Not Bolted On > > Apple builds accessibility in all of their operating
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Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010 http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html
Hello Norm, I received your request for a recommendation at my work e-mail address. I would be happy to write a recommendation for you. It's just that I felt somewhat inadequate in describing your teaching methods etc. However, I would be happy to write a recommendation! You have done so much for me in your teaching and training sessions. Not to mention on a personal level. Do you still need some recommendations? I'll get on it tonight. Please let me know. I hope all is well. Take good care, Penny Penny Connected by MOTOBLUR™ -----Original message----- From: Prof Norm Coombs
Hey folks, please disregard that last message. That was meant for Norm. Sorry Norm! Shoot me an e-mail okay? Penny Connected by MOTOBLUR™ -----Original message----- From: Penny Gray <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 16:26:02 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: 2 more Hello Norm, I received your request for a recommendation at my work e-mail address. I would be happy to write a recommendation for you. It's just that I felt somewhat inadequate in describing your teaching methods etc. However, I would be happy to write a recommendation! You have done so much for me in your teaching and training
Thank you. The people found out what they want so I am OK. I am presenting online for a faculty workshop. Thanks and I am always glad to hear from you and see you in a Webinar.
If they had paid me to come there, it would have been fun to meet but guess that isn't happening. Norm At 09:26 AM 8/4/2012, you wrote: >Hello Norm, > >I received your request for a recommendation at my work e-mail address. I >would be happy to write a recommendation for you. It's just that I felt >somewhat inadequate in describing your teaching
Free Webinar: The DIAGRAM Center: Making Digital Images Accessible
This Webinar next Wednesday is timely and important. I heard these presenters at CSUN last March, and for me it was the best Presentation I attended. Take my word. It is timely and valuable and entertaining.
The DIAGRAM Center: Making Digital Images Accessible Presenters: Anh Bui and Fred Slone Wednesday, August 8 at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern With data visualization and image-heavy content becoming large parts of today's information landscape, the DIAGRAM Center brings together the leading minds in image accessibility to realize
How about nominating a librarian who has done a super job at making your library accessible for patrons with disabilities? See http://www.atyourlibrary.org/ilovemylibrarian for complete details and nomination forms... -------------------- I Love My Librarian Award Nominations for the 2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Awards are open through September 12. 10 librarians each will receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and $500 travel stipend to attend an awards reception in New York. In addition, a plaque will be given to each award winner’s library. Recognize the accomplishments of your exceptional public, school, college, community
They do have some accessibility provisions embedded in their system. However, you have to email them and tell them that you need the content accessible, at which point they will unlock the content. There's also a special project called STEPP which further remediates some of the textbooks offered by CourseSmart. You can find more about the STEPP project here: http://stepp.gatech.edu/faq.php
At the NFB conference last December (2011) the folks from CourseSmart presented. Steve is correct that self identified students get a different login that takes them to unprotected areas. Here they get HTML versions of the digital books. As of last December, they were still primarily a PDF process and the PDF is converted to their proprietary format; the accessible versions go to HTML. They provided information about their automatic process. One point made was that if students commented on the quality, or lack of the quality, then they would put it through a process to upgrade from the automatic
Illinois had an opportunity to join the Educause trial program with Course Smart, but one of the reasons I was told Illinois did not apply is the concerns over accessibility of the technology to people with disabilities.
Jon Gunderson Illinois
From: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:08:45 -0600 To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Does anyone have any experience with CourseSmart texts?
I am excited about the July 4-part wWebinar series on accessible multimedia. Actually, this will be more than just 4 hour-long Webinars. I am finishing the preparations for weeks 1-2 and believe it is going to be a genuine learning experience. Webinars can be a passive spectator activity. This time I am adding assignments based closely on the Webinars with step-by-step assignments to have you create accessible multimedia yourself. Week 1, July 10, is on creating audio. It will include creating audio, cutting and pasting, changing volume levels, fading in and out, merging tracks with speeking over top of background
EASI 4-part, fee-based Webinar Series: Streaming More Accessible Multimedia Tuesdays July 10,17,24 and 31 Times: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
This series is fee-based, but they are free to EASI Annual Webinar members. Registration details are at the bottom of this announcement.
Besides watching 4 hour-long Webinars during July, participants will be provided with assignments for each week to do hands-on practice based on the Webinar content.
EASI 4-part, fee-based Webinar Series: Streaming More Accessible Multimedia Tuesdays July 10,17,24 and 31 Times: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
This series is fee-based, but they are free to EASI Annual Webinar members. Registration details are at the bottom of this announcement.
Besides watching 4 hour-long Webinars during July, participants will be provided with assignments for each week to do hands-on practice based on the Webinar content.
All people, with disabilities, should be encouraged to earn their high school diplomas and college degrees. They also should apply for gainful employment. I am a role model, not an inspiration. Click on my new web site https://sites.google.com/site/professoryvonnesinger/ and read about my journey.
[Apologies in advance for sending this out to multiple lists] There's a relatively painless way you can comment to the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education about the need for accessibility to mathematics in education. But be forewarned that the deadline is July 1 (this Sunday), so be sure to submit something this week. There's a very brief survey which the NSF and Dept. of Ed. are asking people to fill out concerning a new jointly-funded K-16 Mathematics Education Initiative. I think it is important that the feds hear about the issues students with disabilities face when learning
Some listserv lists reject a Word attachment. If you take this link, it will go to the online word documdnt which you can read or download
http://easi.cc/zip/ten-tips.doc
Norm
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Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010 http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html
(At the bottom of this announcement is a link to a handout, Tips for Online Teachers)
Barrier-free E-learning is EASI's online course starting Monday July 9 and running for 4 weeks. EASI does allow time extensions to course participants.
The course syllabus and online registration is available at: http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
The strongly-recommended textbook is Making Online Learning Accessible by Jossey-Bass and available from Amizon. An accessible version can be obtained from Bookshare.org
Thank some of you for letting me know of the problem you were having in getting registered for the MIT accessibility and usability cooperation at MIT Webinar I found it and it should work now
I am sorry about the problems registering for the MIT June 26 Webinar It was a confusion over which of our staff was doing what and things fell through a crack. To the best of my knowledge, I have got it fixed. If you go to our Webinar promo page you will find the MIT Webinar as the second june Webinar. http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
I am sorry about the problems registering for the MIT June 26 Webinar It was a confusion over which of our staff was doing what and things fell through a crack. To the best of my knowledge, I have got it fixed. If you go to our Webinar promo page you will find the MIT Webinar as the second june Webinar. http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Free Webinar-Accessibility and Usability: Working Together at MIT Tuesday, June 26, 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central 2 PM Eastern Presenters: Katherine Wahl and Stephani Roberts from MIT The Usability and Accessibility teams in MIT's Information Services and Technology Department (IS&T) always worked closely together, but were formally merged during a department-wide reorganization in 2009. Our goal in blending the teams was to provide a comprehensive service to clients without diluting our individual practices. After two years, we have strengthened our ability advocate persuasively for both usability and accessibility with clients, have provided more comprehensive services, and have observed standards
EASI Free Webinar: The Cutting Edge of E-book Accessibility Friday June 15: 11 PM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern Presenter: Norm Coombs, Ph.D. CEO EASI, Professor Emeritus RIT
The explosion of e-books is changing the face of book publishing and changing the role of book stores. Different vendors of e-books created their unique, proprietary document formats which required their being read in e-readers designed specifically for that format. Imagine having to use different glasses to read print books depending on who was its publisher! Of course, the document format and the specialized e-readers were inaccessible
EASI Online Course: Barrier-free Web Design June 5-30 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2 (WCAG2) delivered to your computer over the Internet Besides giving insight into these guidelines, the course will introduce toolbars you can use to measure the accessibility of a Web site
WCAG2 is structured on 4 major principles: Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust
First off, thanks to everyone for your support with the first GAAD event.
I thought I would share blog posts from Joe Devon http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/post-gaad-recap-and-whats-next and me http://webaxe.blogspot.ca/2012/05/reflecting-on-gaad.html where we each look back on the event.
Stay tuned.
Jennison
-- Jennison Mark Asuncion Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network http://www.adaptech.org LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison Follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/jennison Accessibility Camp Toronto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP5Kl4GDgA
The EASI site should be available now. The problem was not with the site as such. There are name tables on the Internet that change the address you are seeking so it turns into corresponding numbers. One of those tables had an error in it, but it is now corrected. This means your browser should be able to find us now. It is possible that in a couple regions, it may take a little time for it to catch up.
Many people have been unable to access the easi.cc site. Strangely, I can do it, but my daughter only a couple blocks away cannot.
The provider is trying to troubleshoot.
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Tuesday May 22 at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 P M Eastern (all US daylight times) Presenter: Angela Hooker
one of the hazards of academia is that people often believe they must provide lectures, papers and even Web pages using pedantic language with long compound, complex sentences and with, not 4-letter words, but 4-5 syllable words and sound like a doctor or lawyer trying to impress the client with their learning. We sometimes try to dazzle the audience rather than communicating. Government and some businesses have joined the 'plain English' movement. The first goal of
I don't seem to be able to get either of these links to work. Is it me or is there a problem with the site?
Jeff
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-----Original Message----- From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:47 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Free EASI Webinar: Better Communication With Plain English
Several of you may be interested in reading the blog post I put together about the "Champions of Change" STEM for people with disabilities event which happened on Monday at the White House. Several people were honored for their contributions to Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics for people with disabilities. It was a wonderful gesture by the White House to help raise awareness of this issue. Here's the link: http://accessiblemath.dessci.com/2012/05/white-house-event-stem-equality-for-americans-with-disabilities.html --Steve Noble
In some parts of the world, May 9, and the launch of the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day is already upon us. Please take a minute to forward this e-mail to at least one designer or developer, or someone who influences the funding or use of technology and who likely knows little to nothing about digital accessibility at all.
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of Communications FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2012 White House Highlights STEM Innovators in the Disability Community as “Champions of Change” WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, May 7th, the White House will honor 14 individuals as Champions of Change for leading the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities in education and employment. “STEM is vital to America’s future in education and employment, so equal access for people with disabilities is imperative, as they can contribute to and benefit from STEM,” said Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy.
Creating accessible EPUB, PDF, Word DAISY, audio content and converting between formats This is a 4-week, EASI course stressing how to make accessible content in many formats while primarily using authoring tools you already know and use.While the course has been primarily about creating accessible document content, this offering
will include an understanding of commercial e-book formats and mainstream e-readers. Course participants need this background before moving on to learning how to author accessible e-books in these formats. Because we are only starting to integrate these insights into the course, we will be making changes on the fly. The new
Over the last couple of weeks, some of you on Twitter and LinkedIn may have seen reference to the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 9. This grassroots effort has been driven by a blog post by a Los Angeles-based dev, Joe Devon http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/challenge-accessibility-know-how-needs-to-go-mainstream-with-developers-now/ which I happened upon by pure luck. I was excited by the idea and potential because it fully supports the notion of reaching beyond the converted (i.e., to the balance of the design, development, and related IT communities). Think of it as a large accessibility unevent in keeping with the camp/unconference movement that many of
If you would like to help promote Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 9, you can send an e-mail to gaadpromo at gmail.com. You will be sent text you can share.
Thanks, Jennison
> Over the last couple of weeks, some of you on Twitter and LinkedIn may > have seen reference to the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May > 9. This grassroots effort has been driven by a blog post by a Los > Angeles-based dev, Joe Devon > http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/challenge-accessibility-know-how-needs-to-go-mainstream-with-developers-now/ > which I happened upon by pure luck. I was excited by the idea and >
I am new to Linkedin. I would like to send this to someone - maybe just one person, maybe to her 172 people. How do I send it from you to her (them)?
What happens to a 'share'? Is there a way to "share" to someone from you to them? Where does it go? What happens to a "Post"? I see I can turn it off. Where will the "Message" go? To my connection?
I am new to Linkedin. I would like to send this to someone - maybe just one person, maybe to her 172 people. How do I send it from you to her (them)?
What happens to a 'share'? Is there a way to "share" to someone from you to them? Where does it go? What happens to a "Post"? I see I can turn it off. Where will the "Message" go? To my connection?
EASI Provides 2 Month-long Courses Starting May 7 Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content Barrier-free Information Technology
Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content The lesson topics below reflect the course as it hs been taught for a couple years. But there are a number of important events related to e-books and e-publishing recently that requires
rethinking the course topics and lessons. The explosion of commercial e-books and e-readers is changing the world of books and publishers. Currently, these are starting to involve more accessibility in their products. The
Two New EASI Webinars in May May 3: the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) May 22 Better Communication With Plain English
Registration for both is online at: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm/#may
Free Webinar: the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) Thursday May 3: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern (all US daylight) Presenter: Jim Tobias, Inclusive Technologies Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) is about building accessibility features into the infrastructure of the Internet itself. GPII will combine cloud computing, web, and platform services to make access simpler, more inclusive, available everywhere, and more affordable. When completed it will
Free Webinar: Adaptechs Ongoing Research: Knowledge Transfer and Free and Inexpensive Adaptive Information and Communication Technologies Saturday April 21 at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern (all US daylight) Presenters: Jennison Asuncion, M.Ed. (Education Technology), Adaptech Research Network Co-Director Catherine Fichten, Ph.D. (Psychology), Adaptech Research Network Co-Director Alexandre Chauvin (Adaptech Research Network Student) Adaptech is engaged in information dissemination about our research findings because these can be used to influence policy and practice. One concern repeated throughout all our studies relates to the high cost of
I'm headed up to Armonk next week for Basic Blue. I will be checking email at night, and can be reached by cell (can find in Blue Pages) during the day if urgent. I travel up Sunday, and back on Thursday.
Coverage is as follows:
1. Management coverage, Ross Grady. 2. Day to day Austin details such as project staffing, Samuel Yang. 3. Tech staff lead, Jeff Jagoda.
EASI's Two May Courses Barrier-free Information Technology Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content
The first of these month-long, online courses is a good, general overview of what is needed for an institution or organization to make all of its information technology accessible to everyone. Information technology provides the opportunity to make a level learning and working space for everyone, but, poor design can throw up new and needless barriers instead. http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm
EASI is providing 2 free one-hour Webinars this month:
Thursday April 19 EASI is proud to be able to host this Webinar for the DAISY Consortium Free Webinar: Tobi - how to make images more accessible using the new image description editor. Thursday April 19: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern daylight and 6 PM GMT Presenters: Avneesh Singh & Daniel Weck Tobi now ships with an integrated editor for rich, audible image descriptions. Using the DIAGRAM standard for accessible infographics, authors can Enhance documents with alternate images (tactile, simplified), textual descriptions and fully-featured
If so, how do you keep up-to-date on the rapid transformations happening daily in the technologies that are crucial to your departments responsibilities?
Internet Webinars have the ability to bring the mountains of new information to you rather than your having to go to conferences and attend presentations. Of course, there have always been books and journals. These now abound in electronic formats at Web sites around the world. Webinars can do more. You are in a virtual conference room with a presenter,
I saw this last week and was expecting it to get lots of play on various lists, but I haven't seen anyone reposting this information. I wouldn't want this wonderful opportunity to go without the publicity it deserves, so I am sending this out to a few places. Apologies if you get this more than once. --Steve Noble 502-969-3088 [log in to unmask] --------------------------- http://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/white-house-champions-change-science-technology-engineering-and-math-stem-people-disabilitie White House Champions of Change: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for People with Disabilities The White House Champions of Change program highlights the stories and examples of citizens across the country that represent President Obama’s vision of
EASI Webinar: How Accessible Are Google Apps? Time: Tuesday March 20 at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern (daylight times) Presenters :Greg Kraus, North Carolina State Universityand Scott Williams, University of Michigan
Description: The Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN), in its continuing effort to assist institutions ascertain the accessibility of Google Apps suite, conducted evaluations on GMail and Calendar. cover assistive technologies used for visual, mobility, learning, cognitive disabilities. Many performed quite well Calendar, but there were still significant hurdles some technologies, particularly screen readers. report can be found online at http://athenpro.org/google-gmail-calendar-accessibility
EASI is offering a short, helpful pamphlet for online teachers. The tips do support making online teaching accessible, but the tips are more about teaching than about accessibility. They content that good teaching is the most important part of accessibility for students with disabilities.
This short pamphlet is a free bonus for those who register for the Barrier-free E-learning course which is EASI's month-long course for March Read more and register online at http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm STudents, overseas participants and EASI Annual Members get a twenty percent discount.
Information Technology and Disabilities e-journal is being revived in 2012 as a peer-reviewed journal.
The revitalized publication is a merger of 2 previous ventures: ATHEN E-Journal and Information Technology and Disabilities . DO-IT students spent the summer bringing the old archives in line with modern Web accessibility best practices. <http://easi.cc/call.htm> Read a fuller description and the call for articles: http://easi.cc/call.htm
EASI's Online Course for March: Barrier-free E-learning
Barrier-free E-learning is a month-long course provided by EASI and taught by Professor Norman Coombs. It is one of seven courses provided by EASI and, for those taking five of these courses, they may earn fifteen CEUs from the University of Southern Maine and the EASI Certificate in Accessible Information technology. The syllabi, schedule and online registration are available at http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
Thank you for your patience. The course no longer is using this list, and we have restored it to be the EASI discussion list. Norm
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At 12:37 PM 2/18/2012, you wrote: >Norm, nice to know you still exist! Let's catch up with one another soon. > >Larry Scadden > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Prof Norm Coombs >>To: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >>Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 9:47 AM >>Subject: EASI listis back online >> >>Thank you for your patience. The course no longer is using this list, >>and we have restored it to be the EASI discussion list. >>Norm >> >> . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Karen loaded us with lots of information. I now have to fine time to go through it again and take notes.
It is available at
http://easi.cc/archive/css2012/resources.htm
Next Tuesday is the 4th and final.
Forgive me if you get this message twice.
Norm
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Because I have zero vision, I am unable to check my understanding of CSS by trying it and seeing how it looks. Otherwise, I could probably answer my own questions by trial and error.
You mentioned padding and margins. In my mind, they sound sort of like the same thing but I guess not. Here is my guess and you can straighten me out...... I can set up a border. Then the padding will be the space between the border and the edges of the monitor. I can also set up margins and that will be the space inside
Great questions. Think of the "margin" as the area around a page, or in this case around the screen. So you can have a margin that places content at a margin of 10% from the left, right, top or bottom of the screen.
Padding is correct, the space between the border and the text inside the "box" or border. You can - or should be able to - use the padding inside a table much like you use cell margins in Word to put space between the gridlines and the text in a cell...but that is for next week.
Could you again clarify the difference between the way the padding and the margin features work? At 10:06 AM 2/9/2012, you wrote: >Norm: > >Great questions. Think of the "margin" as the area around a page, or in this >case around the screen. So you can have a margin that places content at a >margin of 10% from the left, right, top or bottom of the screen. > >Padding is correct, the space between the border and the text inside the >"box" or border. You can - or should be able to - use the padding inside a >table much
I'll build this into next week with some examples.
Cheers, Karen
-----Original Message----- From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs Sent: February-09-12 3:29 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: A couple questions for Karen from week 2
Could you again clarify the difference between the way the padding and the margin features work? At 10:06 AM 2/9/2012, you wrote: >Norm: > >Great questions. Think of the "margin" as the area around a page, or in >this case around the screen. So you can have a margin that places >content at a margin of 10%
Thanks again for a highly informative presentation.
You mentioned, I think in week 1, that an individual can create a personal css and instruct his or her browser to use the personal css and over ride the Web designers css. Once I have created a personal.css how do I set up my browser to use it as my css????
Another great question and I'll build that into next week's lesson.
In IE go to Tools, Internet Options and on the Press Alt + E for the Accessibility button. This will open the Accessibility dialog and the last check box is to use your own style sheet. Once you check this check box, you'll be able to browse for your style sheet and then it will be used on any web page that lets you do so.
Karen gave us another set of great tips on CSS. Last week and this week archives are ready including, slides, recording and transcription.
http://easi.cc/archive/css2012/resources.htm
Norm
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Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010 http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html
Thank you Norm, I had a big trouble with the Internet and I missed the end of the webinar. Fortunately, we have captions!! Yes, Karen gave us an excellent webinar. She is very didactical. CSS is not easy to teach.
Have a nice day,
Lucy
2012/2/7 Prof Norm Coombs <[log in to unmask]>
> Karen gave us another set of great tips on CSS. > Last week and this week archives are ready including, slides, recording > and transcription. > > http://easi.cc/archive/**css2012/resources.htm<http://easi.cc/archive/css2012/resources.htm> > > Norm > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Just to let you know... I wasn't able to view the webinar recording in my Chrome browser. I received a message that I had to get the Flash Player to watch the movie, but Adobe was telling me that I had the most recent version.
Worked fine in IE8, and last weeks works fine in Chrome.
I think you have to use Internet Explorer. At 08:52 AM 2/9/2012, you wrote: >Hi Norm, > >Just to let you know... I wasn't able to view the webinar recording in my >Chrome >browser. I received a message that I had to get the Flash Player to watch >the movie, but Adobe was telling me that I had the most recent version. > >Worked fine in IE8, and last weeks works fine in Chrome. > >Just thought I'd let you know (don't you just hate when technology >doesn't play well with each other ;) > >d:) >Debi Turner > >
Norm is in charge of the archives. I avoid Chrome due to accessibility issues so can't be of any help.
If you can't get the information, let me know and I'll try to call you or send a PDF of the slides.
Cheers, Karen
From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Debi Turner Sent: February-09-12 11:52 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: CSS Week 2 Archive Ready
Thanks Karen -- pulled up IE and it worked fine... just thought I'd mention it as there was a difference between the two archives and I thought it might be indicative of a larger problem.
d:)
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Karen McCall, Karlen Communications < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Debi:**** > > ** ** > > Norm is in charge of the archives. I avoid Chrome due to accessibility > issues so can’t be of any help.**** > > ** ** > > If you can’t get the information, let me know and I’ll try to call
I want to be sure everyone from the CSS Webinar series is on this EASI discussion list. No, do not reply to this as everyone on the list will get more than a dozen messages annoying everyone. Instead send me personal mail saying that you got the email from me and send it to [log in to unmask]
I've asked Norm to set this list up for the next four weeks. After the last webinar please contact me directly at [log in to unmask]
I've created a sample web site for you to work with and will be adding pages for you each week. Not to worry, only a couple more pages, one specifically on tables and any others as needed to demonstrate technique. The files are zipped so you will need to unzip them. Let me know if you need instructions.
Please be patient with me. I couldn't figure out any way to solve my need for a listserv for a month problem and so I am closing this list for the month of February.
I'll put your names back on the listserv early in March and email you a notice that the listserv is back.
We are sponsoring a 4-part Webinar series in February, and we need a way for the participants to have a discussion. I'll send you all a notice, but I'll take this offline for February and then activate it again in March.
Please forgive me and please be patient. Norm
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]
1: the online month-long course: BARRIER-free WEB DESIGN 2: Free Webinar: Overview of the Accessibility of Mainstream E-Readers 3: the Four-part Webinar Series: Exploring CSS or Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer
BARRIER-free WEB DESIGN This course is month-long and the next class is February 6 (Registration is $350 with a discount for EASI Annual members and for participants from overseas) Scholarships are also available
Eric Stoller, a blogger and speaker in higher ed student affairs, who also happens to care about accessibility, published this post today expressing continued frustration over Vimeo's lack of captioning capability. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/dear-vimeo-patience-isnt-option
I experimented forwarding the event e-mail I received, but the URLs did not appear. For those of you interested in the 27th annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference, here are some useful URLs. Registration does open December 5. The rate does go up as of January 12, so register early if you can.
