EASI Hour-long interactive Web Clinics for December 2003 and January 2004
EASI has initiated 2 monthly series of hour-long, voice Web conferences which
we call 'online clinics' in contrast to our month-long online courses. The
courses
provide a solid foundation on creating accessible information technology, but
technology is a constantly moving target. These online clinics provide a
forum
for learning, sharing and discussion to better permit you to remain
up-to-date.
More information and registration is available at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
December 2003 tuition-based and free clinics:
December 11, How to use Adobe Acrobat to create accessible PDF
Presenter: Sean Keegan California Community College High Tech Center Training
Unit
This is part of EASI's tuition-based clinic series. Individual registration
is $39 with special institutional rates also available.
Sean primarily supports those needing support to create documents for use on
the Web. PDF is a popular format used widely by college faculty and college
libraries especially to support distance learning programs. Adobe has worked
to increase the accessibility of PDF documents. However, it is important for
the document creator to understand what settings to use in the document
creation.
For example, PDF files can be either unstructured, structured or tagged.
The
settings and the initial document design are all crucial to producing a
quality,
accessible product.
Dec. 18 Designing Accessible course Using Familiar Software
Presenters: Richard Banks and Norman Coombs (Adaptation of an EDUCAUSE
Presentation
This is the free, public clinic for December.
Many faculty and course content designers are experts in their
discipline
but not in technology and have little interest in changing that. EASI
is
developing strategies to assist such content designers to make their
online content reasonably accessible without having to become techies
or
without their having to learn new, complex design software. This
presentation will cover:
what is online accessibility and why bother
Courseware and accessibility
General tips to enhance accessibility for all
evaluating online accessibility
designing and repairing pages for accessibility
PowerPoint online and accessibility
Alternatives for inaccessible online formats
resources
January 2004 tuition-based and free clinics:
January 8, How to produce accessible PowerPoint for the Web
Presenters: Dick Banks and Norm Coombs (EASI)
This is part of EASI's tuition-based clinic series. Individual registration
is $39 with special institutional rates also available.
PowerPoint is another popular presentation format for faculty. It was
originally
conceived to support face-to-face presentations, but as presenters began
posting
them online, PowerPoint increasingly became a tool for creating presentations
primarily designed for online delivery.
The PowerPoint software does permit the designer to save content for the Web,
and it does the HTML code for the presenter. Both stand-alone slides and
those
on the Web pose a number of accessibility problems. In part, it depends on
the
design features used in the PowerPoint, and, in part, it depends on the
special
adaptive software the user has for his or her interface. A free plug-in
created
by Dan Linder from the University of Illinois is one of the tools that
facilitate
creating accessible PowerPoint for the Web.
January 15: Digital Books of the Future: George Kerscher
George Kerscher is the Senior Officer, for Accessible Information for
Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D and also the Secretary
General
for the DAISY Consortium.
This is the free, public clinic for January.
George Kerscher is dedicated to developing technology to make
information
not only accessible, but fully functional in the hands of persons who
are
blind and print disabled. He himself is blind, and started to develop
computer-based information technology in 1987. He has proven to be a
tireless advocate of structured markup, such as XML, in information
systems that simultaneously serve both the mainstream population and
persons with disabilities.
This presentation will cover some of the following:
Explain a simple semantically rich XML vocabulary used in DAISY
standards;
Describe how formatting is done for print and on screen presentation,
and how it is rendered in speech and Braille;
Introduce how multimedia can be layered on this foundation;
Navigate multimedia content that is primarily time based;
Point out technology that exists and that which is yet to be
specified
in standards.
Check out the clinics and register online at: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
*** Note the December 1 EASI courses remain open for registration till
December
4:
Barrier-free Information Technology http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm
Beginner Barrier-free Web Design http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm
Learning Disabilities and Accessible IT http://easi.cc/workshops/ld.htm
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EASI's December, month-long online courses:
Beginner Barrier-free Web Design: http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm
:Barrier-free Information Technology: http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm
Learning Disabilities and Accessible IT: http://easi.cc/workshops/ld.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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Check out EASI New Synchronous Clinics:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi
Online courses and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
Check the EASI Library Web http://www.rit.edu/~easi/lib.htm
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