EASI Webcasts Go Global: http://www.rit.edu/~easi

This Australian webcast is the first in a regular series of EASI webcasts
that will focus on what Is happening internationally in the field of making
information technology accessible to students and professionals.  EASI
believes that students and professionals with disabilities have the same
right to access information technology as does anyone else.

Bruce Maguire (Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission)
speaks with Dr. Denise Wood (University of South Australia and EASI
instructor) and Professor Norman Coombs (CEO, EASI).
http://www.rit.edu/~easi

This is the first in a two-part series of WebCasts involving participants
from Australian organisations concerned with the provision of accessible
information technology in higher education settings. In this Webcast, Bruce
Maguire who is the Policy Officer in the Disability Rights Unit at the
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
<http://www.hreoc.gov.au/> speaks with Dr Denise Wood
<http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?Name=Denise.Wood>,
Program Director (Multimedia Studies) from the University of South
Australia and Professor Norman Coombs about the Australian Disability
Discrimination Act and how this legislation applies to the accessibility of
information technology in Australian higher education institutions.

EASI's online courses beginning December 2 will break for the holidays and
spill over into January.  December courses are:

Barrier-free Information Technology http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm
Learning Disabilities and Information Technology
http://easi.cc/workshops/ld.htm
Advanced Barrier-free Web Design http://easi.cc/workshops/advwbsyl.htm

Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
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