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EASI-WEB is an on-line workshop demonstrating how to use universal design
principles to create web pages for everyone including people with print
disabilities. Next workshop starts October 26.
EASI-WEB Instructors:
Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chair of EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information
Consultant on distance learning and adaptive computing
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http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
Richard Banks
EASi Electronic Resource Manager
Adjunct Ratchasuda College, Mahidol University, Thailand
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http://www.rit.edu/~easi/banks.html
EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is a non-profit
organization affiliated with the American Association for Higher
Education with a mission to help make information technologies more
accessible to users with disabilities.
Registration is $195.
EASI-WEB lesson materials will be accessed through a passworded web
page. This will permit the participant to cover the material at his or
her own pace. While this format provides considerable
self-instruction, the workshop is intended to provide as much
interaction as each participants wants or needs. Email will be used
for interaction with instructors and with other participants. Those
students who submit a web page to share with the class at the end of the
workshop will receive a certificate of completion.
The material is divided into 11 major lessons.
Lesson 1:
Introduction to the distance instruction techniques used for this
workshop.
Lesson 2:
Advantages and problems of the world wide web for the "print disabled"
Lesson 3:
Examples of accessable and inaccessible web pages
Lesson 4:
Ways to check pages for accessibility
Lesson 5:
Introduction to the most basic HTML coding commands for novices
Lesson 6:
Introduction to the most simple and important HTML features to enhance
web access
Lesson 7:
Some more advanced HTML access features
Lesson 8: Planning pages for maximum impact:
a. What's your purpose
b. Keep it simple
Lesson 9
Captioning materials for deaf and hard-of-hearing
Lesson 10:
Descriptive texts to accompany complex graphics and videos for blind
and low vision
Lesson 11
Submit a sample HTML page to exemplify how to deal with access
problems and to earn certificate of completion
You can get a registration form on the web at
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html
or send mail to [log in to unmask]
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