Please forgive if you get duplicates of this announcement.
Pardon a message that is a bit long. I am pasting 2 course announcements
into this one email.
One course is Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Documents
The other course is Barrier-free Information Technology
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Jan. online course: Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Documents
Starting Monday, Jan. 5 EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is
providing a month-long, instructor-directed course, Creating and
Repurposing More Accessible Documents. While it is possible to use a word
processor to create a document and use Web authoring software to make a Web
page and a PDF authoring document to make a PDF document and also use DAISY
authoring software to create navigable and rich documents in the DAISY
format, it is more efficient to learn how to use a word processor to design
structured documents that can readily be transformed or repurposed into
these other document types. This course will provide hands-on training in
how to create basic, structured documents that can then serve multiple
purposes.
Read more and register online paying by credit card, check or purchase
order from:
http://easi.cc/workshops/text.htm
Lesson 1: Creating Structured Documents with Word
What do we mean by "repurpose"?
Structure and meaning in a document
Creating a style using Word
Making images and tables accessible using Word
General tips and hints
Exporting documents from Word
Lesson 2: Creating Accessible Documents in PDF
Different ways to Create PDF documents
Scanning documents from hard copy
Copyright issues
Modifying Accessible PDF Documents With Adobe Acrobat Professional
Issues faced by users with disabilities reading PDF
Checking a PDF document for accessibility
Using Word to create accessible documents to export to PDF
Exporting from Web pages to accessible PDF
Lesson 3: Overview of repurposing several document types:
Creating Web documents (HTML)
Word to HTML
WYSIWYG authoring tools
Section 508 Web Accessibility Standards
Creating synthetic audio from a text document
Creating Braille from a text document
Standard Braille translators
Special problems of Braille math
Special problems creating Tactile graphics
Lesson 4: DAISY: Digital Accessible Information System
What is DAISY and what's the hype?
What is the advantage of DAISY for students and researchers?
Where can you obtain a DAISY player?
Looking at the different DAISY format options
Let's peek under the hood
Creating your own DAISY book using the free Office add-in
Locating DAISY authoring applications and DAISY players
Locating DAISY books online
Read more and register online paying by credit card, check or purchase
order from:
http://easi.cc/workshops/text.htm
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Jan. online course: Barrier-free Information Technology
Starting Monday, Jan. 5 EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is
providing a month-long, instructor-directed course, Barrier-free
Information Technology which has been revised and enriched with several new
multimedia modules. The course is designed to guide an institution in
making both its computer and information technology systems fully
accessible to its users with disabilities. digitized information is display
independent meaning that it can be input and output in ways that make it
available to all users regardless of their abilities. Schools are becoming
more concerned about providing texts in alternative formats, and the course
will describe several different format options and give tips on creating in
formats such as Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Web pages and DAISY. Libraries are
increasingly using digitized information, and libraries can include the
formerly "print disabled" as never before. New technologies are now
available that significantly increase the participation of students with
disabilities in the fields of science and math as the result of research
and resources resulting from National Science Foundation grants. The
emphasis in this month-long course will be on creating structures that will
lead to the institution-wide system change as required by recent
disability-related legislation. The course will be useful for
administrators, faculty, computer and instructional support staff,
librarians and more.
Read more and register online paying by credit card, check or purchase
order from:
http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm
Week 1:
Lesson 1: Introduction and Reasons to Adapt Your Information Technology Systems
Lesson 2: What Is Adaptive Technology? (Computer Input/Output Problems and
Solutions
Week 2:
Lesson 3: Supportive Computer Applications for Users With Disabilities
Lesson 4: Accessibility of Electronic Devices, Computer Software and Online
Content
Lesson 5: Creating and Locating Alternative Media
Week 3:
Lesson 6: Providing Support for People with Hearing Impairments
Lesson 7: Access Issues of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Lesson 8: Using Accessible IT to Enable the Library to Serve the Former
"print disabled"
Week 4:
lesson 9: Training Faculty and Staff
Lesson 10 policies and procedures
Read more and register online paying by credit card, check or purchase
order from:
http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm
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Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]
CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information
phone (949) 855-4852 (NOTE pacific time zone)
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Norm Coombs
CEO EASI
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