EASI: EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE & INFORMATION
PEOPLE NOT TECHNOLOGY
EASI is a non-profit organization, committed to the belief that students and professionals with disabilities have the same right to access information technology as everyone else.
PEOPLE NOT TECHNOLOGY
EASI is a non-profit organization, committed to the belief that students and professionals with disabilities have the same right to access information technology as everyone else.
Here is a short humorous video presenting a dualing battle between 2 different screen reader voices: JAWS and NVDA. It's fun and well done.
Watch the dualing synthesizers!
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George Kerscher and other friends and supporters you may know received this recognition Monday May 7.
Read Steve Noble's Blog on this wonderful event
July 11-13, 2012; Pre-Conference July 09-10, 2012
University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria
Information Technology and Disabilities e-journal is being revived in 2012 as a peer-reviewed journal. The revitalized publication is a merger of 2 previous ventures: ATHEN E-Journal and Information Technology and Disabilities . DO-IT students spent the summer bringing the old archives in line with modern Web accessibility best practices.
Read a fuller description of this new e-journal and the call for articles
April 6 Deadline for Proposals
Testimonial:
"AHG was the most well-organized conference I've ever attended--truly." Ange Hooker
GOOD NEWS: THE WEBINAR ROOM WEB INTERFACE FOR MAC USERS IS FUNCTIONING AGAIN!
EASI Webinars are provided using accessible applications giving access to users with disabilities.
Presenter: Angela Hooker
Syllabus for Barrier-free Web Design
EASI courses are created to be fully accessible to participants with disabilities, and the instructors either use adaptive applications or are professionals who support adaptive technology. The Barrier-free Web Design course explains the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2 and demonstrates tools to aid in evaluating the accessibility of your Web page and which will also help you in repairing it.
This page will rotate through the archive of different previous Webinars provided in recent weeks. Check here regularly as it will change periodically.
Presenter: Craig Mill, Assistive Technology Advisor at CALL Scotland (Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning)
The free add-in for Word that facilitates repurposing Word documents into the DAISY format has been updated for Office 2007 and 2010.
View the slides, watch the recording and read the transcript
This scholarship provides people who are unable to procure other financing, with registrations to either the fee-based Webinar series or to the EASI online courses. While EASI relies on fees to support our work, nevertheless, we want to share these resources as broadly as possible.
For those who did not know our valued friend, Dick Banks, he was passionate about accessible information technology and eager to get others as committed to the cause as he was.
Read about and apply for the Dick Banks Memorial Scholarship
EASI has 2 membership programs: one for individuals and another for institutions. These annual memberships provide free access to all the fee-based Webinars for a full year, free access to an archive of selected Webinar recordings from 3 previous years and a discount to all the EASI courses. At a time when budgets are being cut for training and for travel to conferences, these memberships can fill the void.
Read about and register online for the annual membership program
View a Short Multimedia Preview of Making Online Teaching Accessible
EASI's mission is to serve as a resource by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. We stay informed about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and spread that information to colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and into the workplace.
EASI disseminates know-how about accessible information technology through online courses that can lead to the Certificate in Accessible Information Technology and through frequent both free and fee-based Webinars. EASI courses and Webinars are provided in an accessible format, and its instructors and presenters either are users of adaptive technology or are professional staff supporting adaptive technologies.
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