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Weekly Web Audio Program on Information technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Norm Coombs)
Mon Sep 14 20:09:43 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:17:17 -0500
From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Announcing a new EASI feature:
EASI Roundtable Discussions
A Weekly Discussion Between Users and Creators of Information Technology
focusing on the Need for Universal Access to the Information Age
EASI (Equal Access to software and Information) will webcast this series of
half-hour interview audio programs from its web http://www.rit.edu/~easi
and the interview guests will be announced in advance. Listeners will be
invited to e-mail questions in for the guests. The roundtable host is
Richard Banks, EASI's Electronic Resource Manager.
These 30-minute roundtable discussions will be webcast on Thursday
nights at 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central, 7 Mountain and 6 Pacific time.
the discussions will range widely over issues about the internet,
information technology, multimedia, the ADA, libraries, education, on-line
business, entertainment and more. We will design them to appeal to a broad
audience of internet multimedia users. We recognize that our primary
audience is internet users with disabilities, and we realize that their
interests in accessing information is as broad as anyone else. We want to
bring together internet content providers and especially users with
disabilities. EASI wants to help information providers become more aware of
this special audience and demonstrate principles of universal design so that
these users
can be included in their audiences.
EASI's first roundtable will be Thursday, September 24, 1998. Watch for an
announcement of our first webcast roundtable. It will follow shortly.
Check us out at http://www.rit.edu/~easi
Subscribe to our discussion list by sending mail to
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu saying sub scribe easi (and include your
name).
Norman coombs, Ph.D.
Chair of EASI
