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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   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
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