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Three more ways for you to test Web pages for their accessibility. The 3
public
Webinars below will expand the tools available to you.
You can register to reserve a seat in the room for any or all of them with
no fee:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
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Check Your Web accessibility with the Firefox Extension Tue. Sept. 15 at 2 PM
Presenter: Jon Gunderson from the University of Illinois
The Firefox Accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with
disabilities to
view and navigate web content. Developers can use the extension to check their
use of structural and styling markup that support functional web accessibility.
2 Check Your Web accessibility with WAVE Tue. Sept. 22 at 2 PM
Presenter: Jared Smith from WebAIM
WAVE is a popular and free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by
WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process.
Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web
page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that
page. This Webinar will provide an overview of using WAVE as one of many tools
to assess the accessibility of your web pages.
3 Check Web Accessibility With Cynthia Says Wednesday Sept. 23 at 2 PM
Presenter Michael Burks Chairman of ICDRI
Cynthia Says is a Web page accessibility checker. it is a joint Education
and
Outreach project of HiSoftware, and ICDRI, (The International Center for
Disability
Resources on the Internet).
The HiSoftware Cynthia Says portal is a web content accessibility validation
solution. It is designed to identify errors in your content related to
Section 508
standards and/or the WCAG guidelines 1.0 priorities 1, 2 or3. You select
which
standard to test against. You can select which browser to check it with. The
report will show which items you pass or fail. Many items however cannot be
evaluated automatically and those items will instruct you to check them
manually.
You can register to reserve a seat in the room for any or all of them with
no fee:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve
Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]
CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information
phone (949) 855-4852 (NOTE pacific time zone)
****READ ABOUT THE DICK BANKS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm
Norman Coombs
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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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