EASI-WEB is an online workshop on universal design principles for web pages
. . given entirely over the internet starting Feb. 16 for 6 weeks.

Who is your audience?
What is your message?
Are you sure that your web page design permits all of your audience to get
your message?

Millions of new users connect to the internet every day, and more and more
they are not the typical, young techy type.  Seniors are the fastest
segment of internet users.  You may need to broaden your image of those
coming to your page.

There are over 50 million Americans with disabilities and they are also
avid internet users.  When a computer with synthesizer can read the page to
someone who is blind, low vision, learning disabled or getting blurry
vision from age, it provides access to print materials for them like never
before.  When you can't hold a book or newspaper, but you can read it on a
monitor connected to the web, you have entered a new world.

However, you can design web pages that make life harder for these users and
deny them access to the information they so badly need.

If you are an educational institution, you are required to provide access
to your programs and information, and the web, properly designed, can be
the most inexpensive and easiest way to do this.

You can learn more about EASI's online workshops including a syllabus for
EASI-WEB and also get registration costs and information
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html

or you can write me:
Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Chair of EASI at [log in to unmask]

EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is part of the TLT Group,
and the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group is an affiliate of the
American Association for Higher Education

Students and professionals with disabilities must have
the same access to information and resources as everyone else!