October 23: Free Clinic:
Your Assistive Technology Plan Putting Your Policies Into Practice

Presenter: James Bailey, Adaptive Technology Access Adviser, University of
Oregon
** This clinic will be 1 PM EDT, noon Central, 11 AM Mountain and 10 AM
Pacific.
Register for this free event at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

EASI is delivering 2 monthly series of live, interactive, Web conferences
on topics related to making information technology more accessible to
people with disabilities.

Assistive Technology (AT) programs have grown spontaneously over the past 15
years. What started as managing a single PC in a library has grown, in many
cases, to full fledged programs touching on many aspects of academic support.
Most AT programs have goals, objectives, and policies, but there is no clear
blueprint for how to accomplish them.

An assistive technology plan explains in detail how you intend to fulfill the
promises made by your policies. A technology plan has to take into account
your student population, your institutional IT support, your campus support
climate,
and your school's educational philosophies.

This presentation shows AT providers how to inventory their campus support
systems
and create a manageable and realistic assistive technology plan. Tech
support plans may vary widely from school to school. This presentation will
discuss
specific examples and show how different schools might choose different
solutions.

EASI Online Highlights for November 2003
http://www.rit.edu/~easi

EASI has 4 significant opportunities in November to meet the needs of
universities, colleges, schools, libraries and anyone else who is concerned
to make the Web and online learning more accessible to users with
disabilities.

Two month-long, interactive, instructor-led courses:
Accessible Interactive Multimedia http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm
Barrier-free E-learning http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm

Two 60-minute, interactive, voice chat presentation clinics:
November 20! Using WHSIWYG editors to create accessible web pages including
a detailed demonstration of the accessibility features of Dreamweaver
Presenters:
Dick Banks and Norm Coombs
November 20 Maximum Accessibility Presenter: Professor John Slatin,
University of Texas, discusses in non-technical jargon about his book on
designing accessible Web pages.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

Barrier-free E-learning has been designed and is taught by Dr. Norman
Coombs who has worked in distance learning since the early 1980s and as a
blind professor has always had a commitment to making online learning
accessible to all students.  He believes that we can now create a more
level learning space than ever before.  The courseware discusses disability
types, special adaptive software, courseware systems, and is convinced that
to integrate all of these factors into a seamless web requires a concerted,
campus-wide commitment.

Accessible Internet Multimedia has been designed and is taught by Dick
Banks who is responsible for all of EASI's use of accessible multimedia on
the Internet.  While it must cover multimedia creation itself, the course
focuses primarily on how to make multimedia accessible to users with a wide
variety of different disabilities.

EASI has 9 courses provided regularly over the Internet.  Anyone taking 5
of these will earn the Certificate in Accessible Information Technology
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

While EASI's courses have been delivered online for a full decade to
thousands in several countries, now EASI is also delivering 60-minute
interactive presentations in a voice-enabled chat room permitting real time
interaction between the presenter and the audience.  One series is free,
and the other is fee-based.  The fee-based events can be registered for
either one by one or there is an annual subscription available both to an
individual and to an entire institution.



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                EASI's November, month-long online courses:
Barrier-free E-learning: http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
Accessible Internet Multimedia: http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm
(a package of five courses will earn the Certificate in Accessible
Information Technology)
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

                                        Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
22196 Caminito Tasquillo
        Laguna Hills CA 92653
home: (949)  855-4852
        Cell: (949) 922-5992
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
                http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh

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 See EASI Special October Bonus offer at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
EASI November courses are:
Barrier-free E-learning, Accessible Internet Multimedia and Business Benefits of Accessible IT Design:
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi

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