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----- Original Message ----- From: "Prof Norm Coombs" <nrcgsh@RIT.EDU> To: <BLIND-L@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:52 AM Subject: Creating Accessible Documents: A Live, Interactive, Online Web Conference Creating Accessible Documents: A Live, Interactive, Online Web Conference Presenter: Sean Keegan from the High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges and sponsored by EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) Thursday December 11 at 1 PM Eastern, part of EASI's tuition-based Web Clinic series. Tuition is $39 or you or your college can become annual subscription members: http://easi.cc/clinic.htm When you create PDF documents, do you know whether they are unstructured documents, structured or tagged documents? Did you know that in Australia the human rights legislation flatly states that PDF does not meet its accessibility requirements and that an HTML versions must always be provided to guarantee accessibility? What are the accessibility problems of PDF documents? What has Adobe done to try to solve those problems? What can you do yourself to create PDF documents that can best approach accessibility? This 60-minute voice-based Web conference can only scratch the top of the topic. Our target audiences are faculty, course designers, librarians and others using PDF as a simple and fast way to take course content and prepare it for the Web. PDF does also provide the possibility of creating highly complex documents with many interactive Web features. This introduction will not probe deeply into those more highly technical, advanced features. But, if you are creating relatively simple PDF and want to make those documents reasonably accessible for students with disabilities, this hour-long introduction will get you started. EASI is using the Ivocalize voice Web Chat room which permits the participants to listen to the presenter and lets the presenter push Web pages to the audience providing support for his talk. The presenter can pause and take questions from the participants who use the mic to interact. While there is also a text window, these EASI presentations reserve that text window to provide streaming text transcriptions of what the speaker says. The event is recorded and provided online for the participants to go back over the presentation to pick up anything that was missed. What hardware/software is required? 1 Windows operating system 2 Explorer version 6 3 a sound card and speakers 4 if you want to ask questions, a functioning mic. When is this event? Thursday, December 11, 2003 1 PM Eastern Noon Central 11 AM Mountain 10 am Pacific How do you Actually access this event? You must register in advance to guarantee a seat in the chat room You can register at the registration link for the PDF presentation at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm Those registering will receive details on logging in to the event a couple days in advance. EASI's month-long courses for December are: Beginner Barrier-free Web Design Advanced Barrier-free Web Design Learning Disabilities and Accessible Information Technology http://easi.cc/workshop.htm EASI has taught these online courses for more than a decade to over 4,000 people in some 3 dozen countries. We simplify the know-how about creating accessible information technology so that you can focus better on designing creative course content. ---- -------------------------- EASI's December, month-long online courses: Beginner Barrier-free Web Design: http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm :Barrier-free Information Technology: http://easi.cc/workshops/adaptit.htm Learning Disabilities and Accessible IT: http://easi.cc/workshops/ld.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 E-mail: nrcgsh@rit.edu http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
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