EASI Has Three Opportunities for You in February:
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
The course will not require an extensive knowledge of HTML as it assumes
that designers are working in some Web authoring software that does the
actual Web coding for the designer. Participants who are not currently
using such applications can obtain demo versions of such software for the
duration of the course. The course will be useful for Web designers,
faculty, instructional and information designers, administrators, ADA
compliance officials, librarians and anyone wanting to learn how to make
their Web site conform to accessibility guidelines and standards.
Do you have trouble reading computer and software manuals? EASI will take
the jargon out of Web design and out of the technical requirements for Web
accessibility. Instructors are always available in email to provide
individual support. Having technical information originally designed in
acceptable technical language to promote clear technical requirements and
to meet the needs of technicians is important, and the WCAG guidelines do
an excellent job of this. EASI strives to translate this precise
information for the many designers who, while making Web pages, are not
real technical types. EASI will make creating accessible Web pages easier
than you think!
The course is asynchronous and available in EASI's Blackboard system.
Participants should plan to complete the course in a month. Those who are
not able to finish will be automatically enrolled for the next course
offering and have a second opportunity to complete the work.
Week 1, Principle 1 Perceivable
Week 2, Principle 2 Operable
Week 3, Principle 3 Understandable
Week 4, Principle 4 Robust
Read more and register online from:
http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm
For information about the scholarship, go to:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm
February Webinars
Free Webinar: Overview of the Accessibility of Mainstream E-Readers
Feb. 9 at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
Presenter Ken Petri from Ohio State University
This Webinar will provide an overview of present capabilities on both
mobile and PC-based readers, talk about e-text formats and about what we
may be seeing in future developments. With the emergence of the Kindle, the
Nook, and other commercial products, the availability of electronic books
has exploded. A few years ago, colleges and universities began
experimenting with having students get their textbooks in an electronic
format using one of these e-readers.
As we know, the accessibility of the e-reader devices was poor, resulting
in complaints and law suits against some schools. Seeing a large new market
being closed to them, vendors and publishers have begun to make their
products at least partially accessible. As commercial e-readers and their
book formats become more accessible, students and others with disabilities
will start to see more and more mass market books and textbooks become
available to them straight from the publishers on ever-improving software
and devices. In this (perhaps overly optimistic) view, content will be
provided to readers with disabilities in the same ways as content delivered
to all other users. This Webinar will provide an overview of the current
status of e-reader accessibility and point to some activities toward
improving these technologies.
Register for this Feb. 9 Free Webinar at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Four-part Webinar Series: Exploring CSS or Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer
Tuesdays Jan 31, Feb. 7, 14 and 21
Times: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
Presenter Karen McCall
For many of us CSS is a mystery reserved for real Geeks. Not so! CSS is a
document containing simple directions controlling the look and feel of Web
pages. Putting all the directions at one time in one place simplifies Web
creation and facilitates making changes to an entire site. It means less
work for the Web creator and a more consistent experience for the Web user.
Using CSS or Cascading Style Sheets can also enhance the accessibility of
web based content.
This series will primarily use Notepad as both the CSS and HTML editor
although you can use Dreamweaver for these tasks. HTML is a mark-up
language so you will be doing some "programming." Don't panic, it is easy
once you get the hang of it!
Week 1: What is CSS, how does it work and what it looks like.
In the first week we'll look at how Cascading Style Sheets work and how
to implement them. Participants will be guided through the creation of a
simple web page and Style Sheet.
Week 2: Headings and navigational points, Images and navigation bars.
In this webinar participants will explore the use of Heading Tags or
mark-up as part of a navigational structure for their web page. An
additional web page will be created and an image will be added and provided
Alt Text. We'll also look at linking to other content.
Week 3: Lists and Tables.
Participants will be guided through the creation and attributes for
ordered and unordered lists (numbered or bulleted lists) as well as basic
table structure. (This is where using an authoring tool such as Dreamweaver
comes in handy – creating tables in Notepad requires some concentration or
a sample to copy and paste from.)
Week 4: More decorative elements to web content
Participants will explore how to customize lists and paragraphs on web
pages. During this week we'll wrap up any elements not yet covered in the
previous four weeks. This is an introductory series so we'll not work on
anything complex.
EASI Webinar Members register from the member page:
http://easi.cc/member/
Non-members register at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Scholarships are available:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm
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