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WEBINARS BY MONTH
All Webinars will be recorded and archived for those who register for them.
EASI is pleased to make the commitment to have live captions for all of its fee-based Webinars.
EASI is producing 2 series of Interactive Webinars on specific accessibility-related topics. You can listen to the presenter, and watch as the presenter pushes Web pages and also ask questions yourself. These are hour-long presentations covering general topics and frequently dealing with more advanced materials. One series is free to the public providing an overview of up-to-date information about current events in accessibility. The other series is fee-based, (currently $225, but free for EASI Webinar Annual Members ), and these usually consists of a set of 4 presentations providing detailed, -on, skill-based experience with applications that facilitate creating accessible content.
EASI Webinar Series Annual Membership
EASI has established 2 programs of Webinar membership: one for an individual and another for an entire institution. For one single, moderate price, members have a discount providing access to the Webinar series for a single year. Members will also have a discount on all EASI's month-long courses (read about the courses by selecting the Online Courses link on the home page).
Read more here about Webinar membership
Webinars for July
Free Webinar: Netcentric PDF Accessibility Wizard (PAW)
This is now scheduled for August or September. Watch for its rescheduling!
Presenter Jeff Howcroft from Netcentric
PAW is an add-in for MS Word which, not only creates PDF documents from Word, it will check the accessibility of its PDF and, if there are problems, walks you through repairing the document. There are other tools to repurpose a Word document for PDF but this is the only one which truly produces reliable, accessible PDF output.
Registration will be here when the date is finalized!
August Webinars
ICCHP 2010 :12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
EASI staff (Norm and Beth Coombs) will attend this conference in Viena in July. Assuming we get some content to share in a Webinar, we'll post a date and a registration link here in the last couple weeks in July for a conference in early to mid August. Please come back in late July to watch for details and register!
September Webinars
Creating Online Course Content Using MS Office: Tools You Already Know and Use
An EASI 4-part Fee-based Webinar Series
(This series is free to EASI Annual Webinar Members)Presenter: Norman Coombs from EASI
Tuesdays: September 7, 14, 21 and 28
11AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
Most faculty and instructional designers creating course content to upload to the Learning Management System do not know and hope not to have to learn actual HTML code. This series will show how, using the universal design features of Word, it it is possible to produce content that is reasonably accessible. PowerPoint features can be selected to make its native output reasonably accessible. There are wizards that will transform well-designed PowerPoint into accessible Web pages without the author learning actual Web design.
This 4-part series will give participants exercises to do during the week to practice the features presented in each Webinar. The course will conclude by introducing tools to enable designers to test the accessibility of their online content.
Week 1: Selecting the right tool for the job!
Plan what you want to discuss and select the tool that conveys that content clearly and which works best in that delivery environment
Week 2: Using the universal design features built into Word
Week 3: Using the universal design features in PowerPoint and become familiar with the wizards which readily transforms PowerPoint for delivery as accessible Web pages
Week 4: 1. Understanding access issues in tables and spreadsheets and 2. using free tools to check the accessibility of your Web content
The link below will let you register and pay online for this series. When you reach the registration site, select EASI Web conferences and select September 7 as the series you want.
Register for Making Online Learning Accessible and pay here Presenter: Steven Saltzberg, LLC September, Wed. 15 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
With SoftChalk you can....
If you can use a word-processing program, you can use SoftChalk. Designed for teachers and content-experts who don't have time to learn complex software, SoftChalk is simple, yet powerful, with only the features you need to create exciting, interactive, content for your online course.
Wednesday September 29 at 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 Eastern Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2009 for Word
Microsoft has consistently added accessibility features and tools for
document authors with each version of its Office applications. This webinar
will provide an overview of some of the tools available to create more
accessible documents and content. One new tool is the Accessibility Checker
which gives document authors the ability to perform a mechanical check of
their documents. This webinar will include information on Word, PowerPoint,
Excel and Outlook.
Presenter: Norman Coombs From EASI Wednesday, October 8 at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern LecShare is widely known as a wizard to transform PowerPoint presentations into a sequence of accessible Web pages. LecShare Pro has the ability to add either audio to the presentation or output the presentation as a video. This Webinar will demonstrate both its audio and video capabilities. The 2 following 4-part Webinar fee-based series are being finalized. The presenters and dates should be finalized soon. At that point, they will have specific dates and presenters. Also there will be registration links here then.
Flash has become very popular. Unfortunately, much Flash content has not been accessible to users with visual disabilities, but this is changing. Week 1: What is Flash and why is it so popular? Week 2: Flash accessibility problems and solutions Week 3 creating accessible Flash content Week 4 Accessible Flash players and similar applications The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative set accessibility guidelines for Web content more than a decade ago. Almost a year ago, WAI issued the Version 2 upgrade to its guidelines now organized under 4 basic principles Week 1 Principle 1: Perceivable This means that the user can "perceive" the page and that any assistive technology being used can also perceive the page Week 2 Principle 2: Operable This means that the user's software whether a browser or specialized assistive software can readily interact with the Web page Week 3 Principle 3: Understandable This means that besides "perceiving" the Web page that the page is conveyed to the user in such a way that it can be understood Week 4 Principle 4: Robust. This Webinar will also demonstrate tools to check Web accessibility. Robust means that, even when next generation Web features emerge, that the page will be able to interact with that. These principles can be complex, and the user needs some tool to help in evaluating the accessibility of the Web content EASI Free Webinar: Accessible Widgets Using Web 2.0 Presenter: Hadi Rangen, University of Illinois Wednesday Nov. 3: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern Web 2.0 is a broad and not very accurate term mainly including a host of new interactive features of the Web. The Web Accessibility Initiative has developed guidelines to make Web 2.0 products accessible. The guidelines are called Accessible Rich Internet Applications, (ARIA). Hadi will provide an understanding of how to use WAI-ARIA to create accessible rich internet applications and point to some accessible widgets. Presenters to be announced Tuesday Nov. 30, December 7 and 14 2010 and Jan. 11 Tuesdays at 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern Week 1 making a video with Camtasia Week 2 Captioning the video with Camtasia Week 3 Captioning the video with MAGpie 2011 Week 4 Captioning videos uploaded to Youtube. 4-part Series on LLD Uses of Assistive Technology 4-part Series on LMS: Angel, Blackboard and Moodle Creating accessible blogs Google's developments in translation and speech recognition Uses of Social media to promote causes, non-profits and business What do you want to know? We'll look for someone to talk about it! What do you know that you'd like to tell us about? Getting ideas and finding someone knowledgeable who will share what they know is the hardest part of bringing you these Webinars. Drop e-mail to me with your help at Norm Coombs with your ideas SoftChalk : Authoring Tool For E-learning
Free Webinar: Word 2010 Accessibility Features including the Accessibility Checker
October-November
Free Webinar, LecShare: Going Beyond Accessible Web pages to Include Audio and Video
Creating Accessible Flash
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2 Explained and Demonstrated
December 2010-January 2011
Creating Videos and captioning them with Camtasia, MAGpie and with Youtube
Webinar 4-part Series being Finalized for Next Year
4-part Series on Advances in Making Science and Math Accessible
Future Free Webinars Being Considered
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