NOTE AS OF ThuR. AFTERNOON THE EASI SITE IS
OFFLINE. SHOULD
BE BACK SOON!!!!Free EASI Webinar: Updating the
Diagram Center to Enhance
Image accessibility
Tuesday August
18 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
"As
digital content is quickly shifting to include richer, more
visual components
like complex graphics, simulations and interactives, the need to
make images
accessible has become ever more pressing. To address this need,
Benetech
launched the DIAGRAM Center—a research and development hub
working to set
standards, generate best practices and design tools to ensure
that images found
in digital content (like eBooks) are accessible to everyone."
Visit
the Diagram Center home page
diagramcenter.org
The Diagram center says that four main areas
drive its work,
informed by its founding goals and objectives:
•Standards – In the fast-moving, ever-changing
world of
digital content standards, our goal is to make sure that
accessibility is
always part of the equation so that publishers and other content
creators can
easily figure out what they need to do to make their products
accessible to
all. Standards facilitate creation of accessible content when it’s
needed: at
the moment of publication.
•Tools & Software Development – Poet is
DIAGRAM’s free
open-source tool for crowd-sourced image description. In keeping
with our goal
of dramatically changing the way image and graphic content for
accessible
instructional materials (AIM) are produced and accessed, we also
partner with
other organizations to develop tools that achieve this goal.
•Research – DIAGRAM both conducts its own
research and
partners with other organizations to conduct research in exciting
areas such as
tactile graphics, 3D printing, haptic feedback, accessibility
metadata, and
interactive graphics.
•Training & Outreach – We conduct free
quarterly
webinars for content creators on image description, accessible
math, and many
other topics. In addition, we maintain a blog and Twitter feed to
keep the
community abreast of developments.
Use the link below to register for this August
18 free
Webinar:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#august
EASI has scheduled 2 free Webinars in
September:
·
Twitter and accessibility
on Fri. Sept 11
·
Update on NFB-Newsline Tue.
Sept 22
Read about both and register at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#september
NFB News-line
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·
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·
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·
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