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EASI Public Webinars in January 2009
EASI's 2 public Webinars this month are both down-to-earth, useful
Webinars. If you create any Web content or if you need to be able to
evaluate the accessibility of Web pages made by your colleagues, these are
for you! One is on making accessible forms on the Web, and providing forms
to help you collect information is becoming more common and important. The
other is how to use cascading style sheets so your Web pages will be better
and will be easier to manage and modify. If you register for these, you
get 2 benefits. First it saves a seat for you in the Webinar
room. Second, it puts you on a list to get the archive for the Webinar
after it is over.
(These are Jan. 13 and 20 both at 2 PM Eastern)
Read more and register at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Creating Accessible Forms for the Web, Tuesday January 13 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Hadi Rangin from the University of Illinois
Using the correct HTML code in designing forms for the Web is useful for
everyone, but it is essential to enable users with screen reader software
to be able to read and fill in the form. What these users frequently
encounter are forms where the edit field does not tell the user what
information is being requested. Check boxes and radio buttons also need to
convey the information what items they are associated with and signal to
the user whether they are checked or not. Select boxes need also to deliver
unique information about the selected item and buttons should clearly
indicate what form they blong to and what function they are associated with.
In this public Webinar, we will be covering the most essential knowledge
and accessibility technique that every HTML developer should know in order
to make web-based forms accessible.
Cascading Style Sheets: What they are and How they Affect Accessibility A
public Webinar Tuesday Jan. 20 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Terrill Thompson from DO-IT at the University of Washington
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a markup language used for controlling the
presentation of a web page. Using CSS to control presentation allows web
authors to completely separate content from presentation. In this webinar
we will explore why this is important. We will provide a general overview
of CSS, including basic techniques. From there, we will explore how CSS can
be used in designing accessible Web pages. This session will focus on web
designers with beginner or intermediate skill levels.
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