EASI Webcast interview with Barbara Mates discussing how libraries can now
empower a new class of users: users with disabilities.
Posted Thursday Sept. 14 http://www.rit.edu/~easi and select either link:
"site index" or "webcasts".

A week from now it will be kept on the webcast archives indefinitely.

                                The American Library Association is taking this opportunity seriously.
Mates new book itself is fully accessible to anyone with a computer and
Internet connection.  It is on the web at:
http://www.ala.org/editions/openstacks/insidethecovers/mates/mates_toc.html

This is only one sign of this new revived interest.  Several regional
library organizations have sponsored presentations on access issues.  It is
widely recognized that negative social attitudes are the major barrier for
persons with disabilities in getting ahead in society and employment.  It
is also important for libraries to provide the adaptive tools that permit
users with disabilities to access library information independently.

EASI is excited to see librarians tackling these issues.

Librarians and others may find EASI's online workshops helpful.
Barrier-free Education Tech runs online in October and the web design
workshop will run during November. http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshop.htm.

Barrier-free Education Technology Oct 2 helps an institute remove the
barriers to its computer and information technology systems.