EASI Online Highlights for November 2003
http://www.rit.edu/~easi

EASI has 4 significant opportunities in November to meet the needs of
universities, colleges, schools, libraries and anyone else who is concerned
to make the Web and online learning more accessible to users with
disabilities.

Two month-long, interactive, instructor-led courses:
Accessible Interactive Multimedia http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm
Barrier-free E-learning http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm

Two 60-minute, interactive, voice chat presentation clinics:
November 20! Using WHSIWYG editors to create accessible web pages including
a detailed demonstration of the accessibility features of Dreamweaver
Presenters:
Dick Banks and Norm Coombs
November 20 Maximum Accessibility Presenter: Professor John Slatin,
University of Texas, discusses in non-technical jargon about his book on
designing accessible Web pages.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

Barrier-free E-learning has been designed and is taught by Dr. Norman
Coombs who has worked in distance learning since the early 1980s and as a
blind professor has always had a commitment to making online learning
accessible to all students.  He believes that we can now create a more
level learning space than ever before.  The courseware discusses disability
types, special adaptive software, courseware systems, and is convinced that
to integrate all of these factors into a seamless web requires a concerted,
campus-wide commitment.

Accessible Internet Multimedia has been designed and is taught by Dick
Banks who is responsible for all of EASI's use of accessible multimedia on
the Internet.  While it must cover multimedia creation itself, the course
focuses primarily on how to make multimedia accessible to users with a wide
variety of different disabilities.

EASI has 9 courses provided regularly over the Internet.  Anyone taking 5
of these will earn the Certificate in Accessible Information Technology
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

While EASI's courses have been delivered online for a full decade to
thousands in several countries, now EASI is also delivering 60-minute
interactive presentations in a voice-enabled chat room permitting real time
interaction between the presenter and the audience.  One series is free,
and the other is fee-based.  The fee-based events can be registered for
either one by one or there is an annual subscription available both to an
individual and to an entire institution.


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                EASI's November, month-long online courses:
Barrier-free E-learning: http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
Accessible Internet Multimedia: http://easi.cc/workshops/mmedia.htm
(a package of five courses will earn the Certificate in Accessible
Information Technology)
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

                                        Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
22196 Caminito Tasquillo
        Laguna Hills CA 92653
home: (949)  855-4852
        Cell: (949) 922-5992
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                http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh