EASI Opportunities in September EASI has five events in September to highlight: 2 online courses and 3 Webinar events. The September courses are: Barrier-free Information Technology 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, • ADA compliance officers • admissions officers • computer support staff, • instructional support staff, • online learning support staff • disability services staff, • faculty, • librarians Syllabus and registration is at: http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm (EASI Annual Members receive a discount) Creating and Repurposing More Accessible Content Topics include: • A foundation for repurposing content • Globally accessible content rather than customized accommodation for each student. • Adaptive scanning technology. • Scanning and OCR [Optical Character Recognition] software [ and the process of creating digital content from print. • The importance of logical document structure or a logical reading order. • The role formatting plays in the understanding of content. • Braille • DAISY [Digital ]Accessible Information System]. • NIMAS. Syllabus and registration is at: http://easi.cc/workshops/text.htm (EASI Annual Members receive a discount) EASI is providing 2 free Webinars in September: Practical comparison of screen readers, using scenario based user testing. Sept. 28 at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern Presenters: Birkir R. Gunnarsson and Hlynur M. Hreinsson Tobi: a software tool to author DAISY multimedia | Sept. 20 at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern (Details are being finalized) Tobi is designed to ease the process of synchronizing a text document with human narration, including page numbers, hierarchical table of contents, images, footnotes, etc. Fee-based 4-part Webinar: The 4 Secrets of Accessible Online Teaching September 8, 15, 22 and 29 Presenters: Norm Coombs and Marisol Miranda Times: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern Online learning is a complex mix of several technologies and several groups of faculty, staff and students. This Webinar series will focus on 4 ingredients of this mix: • Accessibility and usability of the online interface • Organization and communication of the course content • Use of styles and semantic markup features in authoring tools • Verifying the accessibility of the course content (EASI Annual Members access the fee-based Webinars as part of their membership) The Dick Banks Memorial Scholarship provides a limited number of scholarships to the fee-based Webinars and courses for those unable to obtain funding. See details on the EASI page: http://easi.cc --------------------------- Check out EASI New Synchronous Clinics: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi Online courses and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm Check the EASI Library Web http://www.rit.edu/~easi/lib.htm >>> Error in line 8 of AXSLIB-L.MAILTPL: unknown formatting command <<< -> . . . . . . . . . <-