EASI Webcast: Progress Report on the SALT Project by NCAM
http://www.rit.edu/~easi

Madeleine Rothburg, Director of Research and Development for The National
Center on Accessible Media, (NCAM), at WGBH Boston public broadcasting,
presented in the EASI track at CSUN where she talked about the SALT
project.  it is a four-year collaboration through the "Specification for
Accessible Learning Technologies" (SALT) partnership. NCAM was awarded
funds to establish the SALT Partnership by the Learning Anytime Anywhere
Partnerships (LAAP), a program administered by the Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), part of the Office of Postsecondary
Education, U.S. Department of Education.

Its goal is to work with learning technology companies, publishers, and
infrastructure and content providers to identify the features needed to
make on-line learning accessible to all users and to specify the resources
and technologies needed to implement solutions. The SALT Partnership
actively recruits and involves learning technology companies, publishers,
and infrastructure and content providers in an industry-led IMS
Accessibility Working Group, which is developing, refining and
proliferating formal Access Specifications for on-line learning.

A paper outlining guidelines for distance learning is at:
http//www.imsproject.org/accessibility/accv1p0/imsacc_guidev1p0.html
The webcast is at:
http://www.rit.edu/~easi


EASI's online courses focus on access to e-learning both online and onsite.
 They include:
Barrier-free Information Technology
Beginner Barrier-free Web Design
Advanced Barrier-free Web Design
Barrier-free E--learning
Accessible Internet Multimedia
Learning Disabilities and Accessible Information Technology
Train the Trainer
Business Benefits of Accessible IT Design
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm







                Norman Coombs
CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
(949) 922-5992 (cell)