EASI Online January      Courses
Jan. 6 - Feb. 2 Beginner Barrier-free Web Design
http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm
Jan. 6 - Feb. 2 Train the Trainer http://easi.cc/workshops/train.htm

These month-long courses are instructor-led and include a highly
interactive format encouraging discussion among course members and also
with the instructors.  Content is available on the web, and discussion is
by e-mail.  The work can be done from anywhere and at any time.  Pick your
own hours and participate from work or home.

Train the Trainer is designed to provide an overview of several adaptive
computer technologies for those who will be called upon to provide training
to consumers with disabilities.  Weekly assignments will encourage you to
do hands-on practice to consolidate your learning.  On completion,
participants will receive a CD containing resources to support them in
providing training to the end consumer.  Applications covered include major
screen readers, screen magnification, optical scanning, operating systems,
web browsers, word processors, spreadsheets and more.

Beginner Barrier-free Web Design is being modified to be more outcome-based
in its format.  Participants will acquire two major Web-related skills.
First participants will learn the basic Web accessibility design principles
from both the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and the Access
Board's Section 508 standards.  Second, each participant will be required
to complete a course project in Web repair.  It will involve hands-on
repair of a Web page from their own site or their institutions site with
significant accessibility problems.  They will demonstrate the ability to
use Web repair tools to make actual Web repair.

At the conclusion of each course, participants will take away either a
concrete product they can use on the job or they will have demonstrated a
skill that they can put to immediate use.

Detailed syllabi and online registration is available at the URLs listed
above.