Introducing a Free Webinar Series on Accessible Publishing and Reading

Dear Wai Interest groupcommunity,

Sorry for cross posting.

Please feel free to circulate broadly.

 

Sign up today to be notified about the free webinar series to be held every
Wednesday at 15 UTC, i.e. 11:00 a.m. East Coast time, USA.

The DAISY Consortium along with leaders in the accessible publishing and
reading ecosystem will be presenting on a diverse range of topics each week
and available for anyone interested to either participate in the live
webinar or review the recording at their convenience. The webinar system we
use (Zoom) is accessible, and both the live webinars and the recordings will
have captions available.

These webinars will include presentations intended for industry events such
as the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in California, the London Book
Fair, the Canadian Tech Forum event, as well new sessions covering
announcements and innovations in the industry.

You can sign up for the latest information using our webinar only email list
at:  <https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WG8H879>
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WG8H879

The presentation topics will change each week, so people can sign up for the
webinars individually using the links located below the session titles.

The first webinar, which will be held on April 1, 2020 is titled "Helping
Higher Ed Students with access to accessible course material during the
COVID-19 crisis" exploring some of the considerations the industry is making
to support students at this challenging time. Register now:
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WLJbXgccQnyPoGGmqbeVUA>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WLJbXgccQnyPoGGmqbeVUA

April 8, 2020 will be "Publishers Faceoff to Prove the Accessibility of
their titles."  <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MIOGV3kySwGR-Fo4lCN0Mw>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MIOGV3kySwGR-Fo4lCN0Mw

April 15, 2020 will be "Create EPUB publications from Word with a simple
tool anyone can use"
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_scaK_d3NQfalkoyTnBawtQ>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_scaK_d3NQfalkoyTnBawtQ

April 22, 2020 will be "Making Math Accessible, One Step at a Time"
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fwL5s83QQ5uT5iN5Q_xGjw>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fwL5s83QQ5uT5iN5Q_xGjw

 

The full list of forthcoming and archived webinars will be available at:
 <https://daisy.org/webinars> https://daisy.org/webinars

 

DAISY will be keeping this webinar series running throughout 2020 as a
primary mechanism to keep people up to date on developments in accessible
publishing and reading. We encourage anybody with a question, suggestion, or
a proposal for a webinar to contact us at:

 <https://daisy.org/about-us/contact/> https://daisy.org/about-us/contact/

or email us at  <mailto:webinars@daisy.org> webinars@daisy.org

The DAISY staff will review proposals and arrange the schedule.

Sincerely,

George

On behalf of the DAISY Consortium

 

George Kerscher Ph.D.

-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.

Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium

http://www.daisy.org

Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech

http://www.benetech.org

President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 

http://www.idpf.org

Member of the National Museum and Library Services  Board (IMLS)

http://www.imls.gov

Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the
W3C 

http://www.w3c.org/wai 

Phone: +1 406/549-4687

Cell:+1 406/544-2466 

Email: kerscher@montana.com <mailto:kerscher@montana.com>