Below is an extensive archive of EASI Webinars

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EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information delivers Webinars on current information about accessible information technology. Our primary audience is College and university staff and faculty. Our Webinars are designed to support them in making their institution's information technology systems fully accessible to students and faculty with disabilities.

The Archive below is organized by year

Webinars During 2016

Webinars During 2015

Webinars During 2014

Webinars During 2013 and Before

EASI Webinar Archive for 2016

Three EASI Webinars on Captioning and Descriptive Audio

Presenter: Susanne Van Dorpe Mistric, instructor/Coordinator Distance Learning – Individualized Learning Center Wade Technical Community College

EASI Webinar part 1: Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio Description

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EASI Webinar part 2: Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio Description

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EASI Webinar part 3: Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio Description

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EASI Webinar: Using Web Technology for Distribution of Accessible Course Materials Online

Presenter: Misty Patinelli, MA
Wake Technical Community College

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EASI 4-part, fee-based Webinar: PDF Accessibility: Back to the Basics!

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word and Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group

Week 1: Overview of the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC user interface

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Making Graphics More Accessible

Presenter: John Gardner from Viewplus Technology

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EASI Free Webinar: Providing Accessible Media using Able Player

Presenter: Terrill Thompson from U. Washington

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EASI Webinar Series on Wave the Web Accessibility Checker (in 2 parts)

Presenter: Jared Smith, WebAIM

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EASI Free Webinar: Accessibility Training for Online Educators

Presenters: Sheryl Burgstahler and Hadi Rangin from the University of Washington

Sheryl described a course she delivered online for faculty at Rutgers University. Hadi outlined a similar course he delivered for faculty at the University of Illinois.

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EASI Free Webinar: When I began in this field, I wish I had known. . . Words of Wisdom from those who have been in the trenches

Presenters:

Cindy Poore-Pariseau, Ph.D. Full time-Coordinator, Disability Services Fall River Campus, Bristol Community College

Doreen Gardner, M.Ed. Part-time Learning Specialist Attleboro/Taunton Campus, Bristol Community College

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EASI Free Webinar: How Teachers and Students Can Work Together On The Same Document In The Canvas (lms)

Presenter: Stephen Alexander Marositz J.D. Assistive Technology Specialist Pasedina City College

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EASI Free Webinar: ARI Made EASI

Presenter: Terrill Thompson from U. Washington

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EASI Free Webinar: Introducing CAMI, the Center for Accessible Materials Innovation,A First in the World Project at Georgia Tech

Presenter: Robert Martinengo, Project Co-Director, Georgia Tech

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Demonstrating the Accessibility of Adobe Digital Editions (e-reader)

Presenters: Norman and Beth Coombs

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Creating Accessible Youtube Media

Presenter: Laura Fathauer, Ohio State University

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EASI 4-part Member Webinar Series: Captioning Introduction - Need-to-Know Workshop

Presenter: Susanne Van Dorpe Mistric, Instructor/Coordinator Distance Learning – Individualized Learning Center Wade Technical Community College

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Creating Accessible Social Media Content for ALL Users

Presenters: Jay Wyant, Minnesota Chief Information Accessibility Officer and Jennie Delisi, Analyst, Minnesota Office of Accessibility.

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EASI Free Webinar: Windows 10 and Accessibility

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word, Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171, Committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group

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EASI Webinar Archive for 2015

EASI Free Webinar: Using Intermediate or Advanced Tools in Word, an Overview

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP for Word

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EASI Free Webinar: Accessibility Training for Online Educators

Presenters: Sheryl Burgstahler and Hadi Rangin from the University of Washington

Sheryl described a course she delivered online for faculty at Rutgers University. Hadi outlined a similar course he delivered for faculty at the University of Illinois.

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EASI 4-part Webinar Series: Assistive Technology for Postsecondary Students with Learning Disabilities:

Week 1: Assistive Technology Solutions for Reading

Presenters: Carolyn Phillips, Director, and Rachel Wilson, Tech Match Specialist, Tools for Life Tools for Life and AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech

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Week 2: Assistive Technology Solutions for Writing

Presenter: Carolyn Phillips, Director, Tools for Life Tools for Life and AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech

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Week 3: Diving Beneath the Surface: Selecting Tablets, Apps and Accessibility Features

Presenters: Martha Rust, AT Specialist, and Liz Persaud, Training and Outreach Coordinator, Tools for Life Tools for Life and AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech

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Week 4: Creating Accessible Documents for Individuals with Learning Disabilities

Presenter: John Rempel, Quality Control & Training Specialist, AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech

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EASI Fee-based 4-part Webinar Series: Beginner/Intermediate PowerPoint

Presenters: Norm and Beth Coombs

Week 1: Getting started with PowerPoint

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Configuring your Powerpoint software

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Week 3: Powerpoint's accessible and inaccessible features

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Week 4: Becoming a more efficient and proficient user

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Tweeting Blind - strategies for screen reader users to interact with Twitter, and why they should

Presenter: Jonathan Mosen, technology writer, and director of Mosen Consulting

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EASI Webinar Archive for 2014

Adaptech’s Research: Free and Inexpensive Adaptive Information and Communication Technologies

Presenter: Jillian Budd, M.A.

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EASI Free Webinar: Android Landscape: 2014

Presenter: Steve Jacobs: President of Ideal Group and CEO of Apps4Android

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Webinar: the flexible E-reader Balabolka

Presenter: Michael Micallef Dip IT, from the Foundation Information Technology Accessibility (FITA) Malta

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EASI Free Webinar Explaining the Importance of Color Accessibility

Presenter:s Greg Kraus from North Carolina State and Wayne Dick from CSU Long Beach

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EASI Free Webinar: Opportunities in Computing and IT Fields for People with Disabilities

Presenters: Richard Ladner and Sheryl Burgstahler

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EASI 4-part Webinar series: online accessibility for students with disabilities

Presenter: Norman Coombs, Ph.D. and EASI CEO

Week 1: Introduction

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Week 2 authoring accessible content for online delivery

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Week 3: PowerPoint, Excel, Multimedia and STEM accessibility

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Week 4 verifying accessibility and managing the accessibility process

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The Low-Hanging Fruit of Web Accessibility

Presenter Terry Thompson

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EASI Four Part Accessible PDF Series

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171 committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group

Week 1 The Basics of Tagged PDF

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Week 2 Elements of a Well-Structured Document

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Week 3 Week three: Working in Acrobat XI Pro Part 1

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Week 4 Acrobat XI Pro Tools Part 2

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EASI Webinar: Information Access Using ReadHear

Presenters: Wunji Lau and Dave Schleppenbach from gh, LLC

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EASI Webinar: Teaching Math to Blind Students

Presenters: Dave Schleppenbach and Wunji Lau from gh, LLC

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EASI Free Webinar: Web and IT Accessibility Policies in Higher Education

Presenters: Sheryl Burgstahler Director of UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT University of Washington and Terrill Thompson Technology Accessibility Specialist University of Washington

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EASI Webinar: Better Communication With Plain English

Presenter: Angela Hooker

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Selected Webinars During 2013 and Before

EASI had provided several Webinars related to DAISY, but recently its accessibility features are being folded into ePub3 making those Webinars no longer really relevant. EASI is working to keep up-to-date with the development of ePub3.

Accessible Interactive Documents in PDF, Word and HTML

WEEK 1: ACCESSIBLE FORMS IN PDF

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP for Word, Canadian delegate to ISO /TC 171, Member of the PDF/UA working group

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Week 2: Accessible Forms in Word

Presenter: Dan Clark from Freedom Scientific

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Week 3: Accessible Forms in Web pages

Presenter: Norm Coombs, CEO EASI and Professor Emeritus at RIT

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EASI WEBINAR FEE-BASED Multi-PART SERIES: CREATING ACCESSIBLE TABLES

Week 1 Accessible Columns and Tables in Word

Presenter: Norm Coombs

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Week 2 Producing Columns and Tables to Repurpose into PDF

Presenter: Karen McCall

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Week 3 Column and Row Headers in Word and Excel

Presenter: Dan Clark from Freedom Scientific

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Week 4 Creating Accessible Columns and Tables for the Web

Presenter: Jon Gunderson,University of Illinois

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EASI Fee-based 4-part Series:Introduction to Office 2013

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171 committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access Working Group

Week 1: Getting Started

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Week 2: Performing Tasks Differently

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Week 3: Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote

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Week 4: Office 365 and the Office Web Apps

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Accessible and Usable PDF Documents: a 4-part Series

Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2010 for Word Canadian delegate to the ISO/TC 171 committee Member of PDF/UA Universal Access working group

(The series will rely heavily on Adobe Acrobat to create accessible PDF)

Week 1: Introduction to Creating Accessible PDF

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Week 2: Creating PDF from an accessible Word document

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Week 4: Final Touches

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Creating More Attractive and Accessible PowerPoint Presentations, a 4-week series

Presenter: Norm Coombs

Week 1: LEARNING THE POWER & FEATURES OF POWERPOINT

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Week 2: LEARNING THE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES AND PROBLEMS IN POWERPOINT

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Week 3: CREATING A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR DIFFERENT DELIVERY VENUES

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Week 4: CREATING MULTIMEDIA BASED ON A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

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Accessibility of Learning Management Systems

LMS Accessability: Angel, Desire2Learn, Sakai and Moodle (4 Webinars)

Week 1 Angel Robert Beach

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Week 2 Desire2Learn: Janna Cameron

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Week 3 Sakai: Mary Stores

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Week 4 Moodle: Greg Kraus

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Testing & Evaluating Learning Management Systems

Presenters: Hadi Rangin, Marc Thompson and Ken Petri

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Introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (2) for Beginners and Intermediates: a 4-part Series

Presenters: Marisol Miranda and Norman Coombs

Week 1 Introduction to accessibility and to the WCAG2 Guidelines

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Week 2 Principle 1: Perceivable

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Week 3 Principle 2 Operable

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Week 4 Principle 3: Understandable and Principle 4: Robust

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EASI Free Webinar The Low Hanging Fruit of Web Accessibility

Presenter: Terrill Thompson

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EASI Webinar: Practical Web Accessibility

Presenter: Jared Smith from WebAIM

It's easy to get caught up in the technical aspects of web accessibility and overlook practical principles and techniques that often have a bigger impact on the end user experience.

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Diagram Center Webinar: Accessible Digital Images

Presenter: Julie Noblitt, Community Manager at the DIAGRAM Center

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Overview of the Accessibility of Mainstream E-Readers (Spring 2012)

Presenter: Ken Petri from Ohio State University

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