Archive of EASI Webinars for EASI Members

Below are selected EASI Webinars that we believe are worth providing for those who have become EASI annual Webinar members.

Managing and Organizing System-wide IT Accessibility

While almost all of these Webinars deal with aspects of IT accessibility, it is crucial that an organization has policies and procedures outlining the need for a system-wide approach and designing inter-departmental structures to support total IT accessibility. Putting it another way, those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Books on Accessibility

There are Webinars here by 4 authors of their books on accessibility: Bailey, Burgstahler, Coombs and McCall

Creating Accessible Documents with Word, PowerPoint and PDF

Faculty and even instructional content designers normally work with common authoring applications, and they do not want to learn the advanced technical aspects of technical accessibility. The applications that come with Microsoft Office and similar tools provided by other vendors can be used in ways that will produce content that is largely accessible without the authors learning such arkane features. Learning how to use these tools as the vendors intended will produce content that will meet most accessibility standards

E-books and E-reader Accessibility

E-books have proliferated significantly in recent years. E-book formats come in many flabors, and commonly each requires its own e-reader. The accessibility of the e-book format and of its e-reader vary and are changing regularly. DAISY is a format originally designed to be highly accessibility. Currently, there is a broad push to have EPUB3 accepted as a generic standard, and it is being designed to include much of the DAISY accessibility features

Mass Production of Alternate Media by Colleges and Universities

Colleges and universities are legally responsible to provide content in alternate formats for students who need that which includes books and other print content used in courses.

Online Books by Bookshare, NLS and RFB&D

Many groups have been producing books in an accessible format. There are 3 major ones which maintain large e-book libraries and make them available to qualified people with disabilities. However, as some e-books are being provided based on universal design, users can also use these books as well. The advantage of these 3 orgnizations is that they are libraries providing books on a free basis from their extensive libraries.

Making Accessible Multimedia

Multimedia content is more complex, and making it fully accessible is also more complicated. E-books focus on making content accessible to the so-called print disabled. Multimedia has to include people with various levels of audio impairments.

Accessibility of Learning Management Systems

The number of Learning Management Systems is shrinking and growing at the same time. While the major CMS vendors are consolidating, new small applications continue to appear. At the same time, each LMS is upgrading and evolving at a rapid pace. Saying anything authoritative is almost impossible.

Web Accessibility Guidelines, Standards and Evaluating Web Accessibility

The Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Guidelines deal with the technical aspects of creating Web pages and with providing features that will permit the pages to interact successfully with special adaptive technology and with the unique needs of users with disabilities.

There are 2 other Webinars designed to help non-technical content providers provide content that is largely accessible.

ACCESSIBILITY OF HTML 5

Web pages are becoming more dynamic and more interactive. The basic code is being upgraded to HTML5 which will further enhance the flexability of the Web.

Social Media

EASI Archive of Selected Webinars

Managing and Organizing System-wide IT Accessibility

Webinar: CREATING AT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Presenter: James Bailey M.S. Adaptive Tech Coordinator, University of Oregon

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Webinar - Accessibility and Usability: Working Together at MIT

Presenters: Katherine Wahl and Stephani Roberts from MIT

View the Webinar showing the advantage of 2 separate departments cooperating on accessibility and usability

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

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

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Books on Accessibility

Managing the Assistive Technology Process: The Nontech Guide for Disability Service Providers

Presenter and author: James Bailey MS

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Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principle to Practice

Presenter and author: Sheryl Burgstahler

Go to the slides from Sheryl's Webinar on this book

Go to the recording from Sheryl's Webinar on this book

Microsoft Word from the Keyboard

Presenter and author: Karen McCall

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Making Online Teaching Accessible

Presenter and author: Norman Coombs

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Creating Accessible Documents with Word, PowerPoint, and PDF

The webinars on MS Office cover all 3 of the main applications plus covering several different versions of each application. Some Webinars consist of a series of 3-4 Webinars and some are stand-alone Webinars. These are also provided by several different people.

OFFICE 2010 OVERVIEW (a single Webinar)

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

View the slides and watch the recording for the Office 2010 overview

Office 2010 4-part Overview presentation

Presenter: Norm Coombs

Week 1 : Overview of Office 2010

Week 2: Making Better Use of Word's semantic structure

Week 3: Tables, Spreadsheets and PowerPoint

Week 4: Changing PowerPoint into Accessible Web pages

Go to the 4-part Webinar series on Office 2010

OFFICE 2013: A Single Webinar OVERVIEW AND PREVIEW

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

View the slides and watch the recording of this single Webinar

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

Week 2: Performing Tasks Differently

Week 3: Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote

Week 4: Office 365 and the Office Web Apps

Go to the 4 Webinars, their slides, recordings and transcriptions

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

Week 2: Creating PDF from an accessible Word document

<4> Week 3: Using Acrobat to touch the PDF output from Word

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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

Week 2: LEARNING THE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES AND PROBLEMS IN POWERPOINT

Week 3: CREATING A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR DIFFERENT DELIVERY VENUES

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PowerPoint and Beyond: a 4-part series

Presenter: Norm Coombs

Week 2: Preparing to Make a Narrated PowerPoint

Week 3: Creating a narrated PowerPoint

Week 4: Using LecShare to transform a Powerpoint into a video

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E-books and E-readers

Recently, there has been a rapid proliferation of e-books and e-book readers. Some have almost no accessibility while others have good although not perfect accessibility. These Webinars look at this bewildering array of items as well as covering how content providers can create or modify e-books to be more accessible.