EASI Public Webinars in January 2009 EASI's 2 public Webinars this month are both down-to-earth, useful Webinars. If you create any Web content or if you need to be able to evaluate the accessibility of Web pages made by your colleagues, these are for you! One is on making accessible forms on the Web, and providing forms to help you collect information is becoming more common and important. The other is how to use cascading style sheets so your Web pages will be better and will be easier to manage and modify. If you register for these, you get 2 benefits. First it saves a seat for you in the Webinar room. Second, it puts you on a list to get the archive for the Webinar after it is over. (These are Jan. 13 and 20 both at 2 PM Eastern) Read more and register at: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm Creating Accessible Forms for the Web, Tuesday January 13 at 2 PM Eastern Presenter: Hadi Rangin from the University of Illinois Using the correct HTML code in designing forms for the Web is useful for everyone, but it is essential to enable users with screen reader software to be able to read and fill in the form. What these users frequently encounter are forms where the edit field does not tell the user what information is being requested. Check boxes and radio buttons also need to convey the information what items they are associated with and signal to the user whether they are checked or not. Select boxes need also to deliver unique information about the selected item and buttons should clearly indicate what form they blong to and what function they are associated with. In this public Webinar, we will be covering the most essential knowledge and accessibility technique that every HTML developer should know in order to make web-based forms accessible. Cascading Style Sheets: What they are and How they Affect Accessibility A public Webinar Tuesday Jan. 20 at 2 PM Eastern Presenter: Terrill Thompson from DO-IT at the University of Washington Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a markup language used for controlling the presentation of a web page. Using CSS to control presentation allows web authors to completely separate content from presentation. In this webinar we will explore why this is important. We will provide a general overview of CSS, including basic techniques. From there, we will explore how CSS can be used in designing accessible Web pages. This session will focus on web designers with beginner or intermediate skill levels. --------------------------- 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 <<< -> . . . . . . . . . <-