When Is a Webinar Accessible for Users With Disabilities?
Free EASI Event Tue. Mar. 13 at 2 PM
Presenters: Dick Banks and Norm Coombs

There are at least 3 aspects to making participating in a Webinar or Web 
conference accessible to users with disabilities:

1. The Web conferencing system
2. The way the presenter uses it to make the presentation
3. The participant's adaptive software and the user's skill in using it.

Dick and Norm will cover all these basic ingredients providing their 
experiences and personal views. There are so many different systems, each 
used differently
and so many users bring different software and experience that there are no 
definitive answers to this question. Dick and Norm really hope that 
participants
will contribute as their experiences may be different and can greatly 
enrich this discussion. Yes, it will be more a sharing discussion than a 
formal presentation
as such. While we will talk about different systems, Dick and Norm want to 
introduce a slightly different Web conferencing interface than EASI has used
before. We want to explain it to you, and we greatly appreciate your 
reactions to it. While we find it reasonably accessible, it is a little 
different,
and we'll send info to those who register to help especially those using 
screen readers with its accessibility. *** If you are a screen reader user, 
please
consider attending. We want your feedback! We also believe that a good 
system can be used in ways to greatly reduce its accessibility. Similarly 
an unfriendly
interface can be used in ways to minimize those issues. How it is used is 
important.

Please register early at the link below so you can install the software in 
advance and look at the accessibility documentation.
http://easi.cc/forms/webinar.htm

EASI will hold 2 fee-based Webinar series in April:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

EASI's April, month-long, instructor-led courses will be:
1.  Accessible Internet Multimedia: Podcasts, Vodcasts and Streaming
2.  Train the Trainer
Read more at: http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

Norm


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