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 --------- 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 ---------- 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norman Coombs [log in to unmask] CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information phone (949) 855-4852 (NOTE pacific time zone) ****READ ABOUT THE DICK BANKS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm Norm Coombs CEO EASI