EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information Home "Amazon and the 
National Federation of the Blind

"Amazon and the National Federation of the Blind will collaborate on 
improvements to Amazon's education content, platforms, and applications, 
and will meet on an ongoing basis to review progress and exchange ideas 
and feedback..." Amazon welcomes the agreement, according to spokeswoman 
StephanyRochon. "We are seeing more educational institutions embrace 
digital learning, and this shift provides a great opportunity to improve 
accessibility for blind students," she said in an email. "We look 
forward to collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind to 
work together..."


            The 2016 Independence Science, Learning a New Direction,
      Conference on Disability is just around the corner

We are now requesting abstract submissions from possible presenters. The 
ISLAND conference will be held on Friday, September 16, 2016 at the Kurz 
Purdue Technology Center located at 1281 Win Henschel Blvd in West 
Lafayette, Indiana 47906. The conference will begin at 8:00 AM with 
continental breakfast and conclude by or before 5:00 PM. Presentations 
are estimated to be 30 minutes in length with time for discussion 
following each presentation. Please submit a title of no more than 20 
words and an abstract containing no more than 150 words to Cary Supalo, 
conference chair at [log in to unmask] by or before June 15, 2016. 
Please also include all authors and their organization affiliations in 
the document. Presenters will be notified if their presentation was 
accepted by or before July 1, 2016. All presenters are expected to 
register for the conference. Early bird registration concludes September 
1, 2016 and will be available through the Independence Science website soon


      EASI soliciting sponsors for captioning Webinars

We are planning to do real-time captioning of many of EASI Webinars 
again. We have one vendor committed to provide financial support for 
real-time captioning and are soliciting other sponsors. If your 
organization would become a sponsor, email Norm at ([log in to unmask])


      EASI planning several months of Webinars

We are organizing Webinars covering May through the end of the calendar 
year. Many of these will be based on CSUN presentations from last March. 
This should be up and ready long before the end of April.


      Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web & Technology
      Conference November 14 - 18, 2016


      Accessing Higher Ground 2016 is now accepting proposals for its
      19th Annual Conference in Westminster, Colorado. This conference's
      focus is on accessible media, universal design, best practices for
      Web & media design, accessible curriculum, alternate format and
      other topics related to accessibility and usability in higher
      education and other environments.

      The speaker proposal form can be found at:
      (http://accessinghigherground.org/proposalform2016.php).

      View   last year's sessions to get a sense of the typical agenda
      and range of topics. If you have further questions, email Howard
      Kramer at: [log in to unmask] or visit it on the web:
      URL: http://accessinghigherground.org/





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