EASI's online workshops have been brought up to date and have been enhanced with multimedia.Both have a special coupon for a free registration for a team-mate from your institution during 1999. Barrier-Free Web Design This four-week workshop is designed to demonstrate how to create web pages that are both visually appealing and fully accessible to users with print disabilities. In this context, accessibility means that the menus are readily navigable and that the content itself is in a format that users with disabilities can "read" independently. This workshop is largely self-paced, but it also includes frequent interaction with instructors and other HTML learners. It includes multimedia slides with narrated audio, video clips, audio discussions and text and graphic materials. Besides teaching universal web design, it is intended to model how to use multimedia on the web in ways that enhance access for all users. By combining multiple communication modes, the workshop increases its accessibility for everyone. The recent guidelines announced by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Access Initiative are included in the course. To qualify for CEU's, participants will have to create a web page using tools used in the class. August 23 and October 3 Taught by instructors with extensive experience in adaptive computer technology: Richard Banks and Norman Coombs, Ph.D. Registration includes the free coupon for a team-mate. To register or for more information, go to: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html Barrier-Free Education Technology This is a four-week online workshop providing an overview to the topic of adaptive computing technology and is ideal for administrators, teachers, librarians, computer support staff, ADA compliance officers and service providers. The workshop is delivered using e-mail and multimedia materials on the web. Multimedia presentations both enriches the content and makes it more accessible to participants with different learning styles and different disabilities. The workshop is designed to encourage and facilitate interactions between instructors and participants. Sept. 20 and Nov. 1 Taught by instructors with extensive experience in adaptive computer technology: Richard Banks and Norman Coombs, Ph.D. Registration includes a coupon for a free registration for a team-mate. Teams will pair staff from the disabled student office with participants from another institutional department. Three continuing education units are available from the Rochester Institute of Technology on request. To register or for more information, go to: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html Oakland community College in Michigan is hosting an on-site conference by EASI on the themes covered in these online workshops. It will include guiding participants through the process of developing a working plan to take back to campus. Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 http://www.rit.edu/~easi