Dear Hadi Bargi Rangin,
I would like to work on a more accessible Blackboard, although my
university is moving toward Sakai, http://sakaiproject.org/ , as a
replacement for Blackboard.  

Richard Jones
Assistant Director
Disability Resource Center
Arizona State University
480 965-6045

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-----Original Message-----
From: Equal Access to Software & Information
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hadi Bargi Rangin
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group

To anyone interested in accessibility of Blackboard Course Management
Tool

We would like to start the Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group that
will be focusing and resolving accessibility issues with Blackboard in a
kind of collaborative way with other colleges and the Blackboard/WebCT
company.

About 1.5 years ago we established a similar interest group with other
universities and worked together with WebCT (before WebCT/Blackboard
merge) and achieved very positive results so that accessibility is now
part of their design and QA process. We believe we can achieve similar
result if we work together. To start the Blackboard Accessibility
Interest Group I would like to ask anyone who is interested in working
together on this project to join us at our first teleconference in this
regard. Call-in information follows. 
Please drop me a note and let me know if you are planning to
participate. I need to know how many people are joining us on this
teleconference to order enough call-in telephone ports. Please send your
note to [log in to unmask] and not to the list.

Info about the first Blackboard Accessibility teleconference:

Date: Tuesday June 13 2006
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT (Chicago Local Time)
Phone: 217 244-7532

Thanks and sorry for cross-postings.

Hadi

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Hadi Bargi Rangin
Web Design and Accessibility Specialist
Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services University of
Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL  61820
Voice: (217) 244-0518
Fax: (217) 333-0248
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://disability.uiuc.edu