Accessible E-books in Higher Ed, the Future is Coming Thursday, September 27 (2PM EASTERN) Presenter, Ron Stewart This Webinar is free and open to everyone, but you need to register in advance to reserve a "seat" in the online conference room! Currently three national initiatives are underway to attempt to bring a level playing field to the educational experiences of students with print disabilities. 1. The National Instructional Materials Standard, 2. the Alternative Format Solutions Initiative of the American Association of Publishers, 3. AHEAD's E-Text Solutions Group These 3 organizations are all working from different perspectives to attempt to insure that curricular access is provided across the educational spectrum in the United States. This session will present and explore an overview of these three efforts, as well as present for discussion the challenges and benefits of each for our community. Recent technology is providing e-text books that are easier to navigate and have vastly improved usefulness. The alternative text user has access, navigation and control of the document that is about as good as that of print users and provides a significant step forward in leveling the learning space both in higher education and in K-12. Authoring tools are also being created that makes it simpler to provide such e-texts. Students need to know how to locate such e-books and providers need to learn how to create them. You can register by following the links at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm We also have a free multimedia demonstration of a simple way to check your Web pages for accessibility. Making accessible Web design is essential for making your information an course content usable by everyone. With the free AIS Accessibility Toolbar anyone can look at pages and instantly know what needs to be done to make the pages accessible. For a free Quicktime multimedia overview of the Power of the AIS toolbar, send an email message to [log in to unmask] -------- Note the October EASI online course is Barrier-free Web Design http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm --------------------------- 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 >>> Error in line 8 of AXSLIB-L.MAILTPL: unknown formatting command <<< -> . . . . . . . . . <-