Two November opportunities related to making e-learning more accessible to 
students with disabilities and, at the same time, making creating 
accessibility easier for faculty, instructional designers and other content 
providers.

1.  EASI has an instructor-led, month-long online course, Barrier-free 
E-learning which is part of the Certificate in Accessible Information 
Technology program.  The course is aimed at content designers and their 
administrators and support staff.  Most online learning happens inside a 
courseware management system.  That system is responsible for most of the 
standards and requirements for Web accessibility which lessens the burden 
on faculty.  We believe that fewer than half a dozen access issues remain 
to impact the content created by most faculty.  We also believe that 
faculty can use the Microsoft Office tools they know and use in such a way 
to meet these requirements.  This course aims at showing how course content 
can be made largely accessible with minimal technical know-how or 
skill.  (The course is online and largely asynchronous.  Read more and 
register online for this fee-based course
at:
http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm

Also during November, EASI will be hosting 4 live, interactive Web 
conferences on making accessible documents with PDF.  Karen McCall has 
published on the topic and is on the beta testing team for Adobe.  There 
will be 4 hour-long Web conferences on Tuesday afternoons all at 2 PM 
Eastern.  Read more and register online for this fee-based Web conference 
series at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm



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EASI Courses on Accessible Information Technology for November:
Barrier-free E-learning (expanded and enriched with more multimedia)
http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
EASI has 3 Podcast series: http://easi.cc/podcasts/
EASI Home http://easi.cc

Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
(949) 855-4852  ** Pacific time zone!