[11494] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Internet Broadcast on Universal access web page design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Norm Coombs)
Mon Jul 21 20:18:10 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:45:38 -0500
From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
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Lieve, interactive webcast on barrier-free universal access to
the world wide web. Utilizing pictures, text and audio, this
presentation will describe how to design web pages to meet the
learning and working styles of diverse web users. Wednesday
August 6 between 9-10 am central daylight time broadcast from the
13th annual distance learning conference in Madison Wisconsin.
Presenters Norman Coombs, Ph.D and Richard Banks from EASI (Equal
Access to
Software and Information).
The webcast will use Cheetah Broadcasting technology. Remote
attendees must have an Internet connection and a java enabled
browser (Netscape 3.01
or Microsoft IE 3.0 or above). Users will hear the presentation,
see a real time transcription and view the exhibits as they are
shown in the conference center.
Users will also be able to participate in the event by submitting
questions
and responding to interactive surveys.
Modern information technology has amazing potential to link
people from remote distances and to be displayed in ways to meet
the diverse learning and working skills of all people. Text
display, graphic presentation and auditory presentation together
provide multiple communication channels. People learn best when
presented provided with multiple sensory information sources.
This also means that people with communication disabilities,
deaf, blind and others are included automatically in the
audience.
This webcast has two main functions. First it will demonstrate
distance learning techniques that provide universal access.
Second, the workshop will describe how to design web pages that
will also provide barrier-free universal access to web
information. This is in line with the Clinton/Gore initiatives
to bring universal access to the world wide web by the 21st
century.
Tunie in on this webcast on August 6 between 9-10 am central
daylight time. To learn more about cheetah technology and to
find the web site for this webcast, go to
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/webcast.html
For anyone unable to make the webcast, EASI has online email/web
workshops on designing universally accessible web pages at
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html
EASI recognizes that Cheetah and other cutting edge technologies,
for the immediate present, may prevent some internet users with
older equipment from participating in such events. We believe
one of our roles is to explore the opportunities provided by new
technologies to make universal access a reality in tomorrow's
world.
