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Designing the Web for Accessibility and to conform to the Law

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Norm Coombs)
Mon Jan 24 20:59:12 2005

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Beginner Barrier-free Web Design: A month-long, interactive course
providing an introduction to creating Web pages that will be accessible for
users with disabilities and which will conform to both the Web
Accessibility Initiative guidelines and Section 508 Federal Web
accessibility standards.  This online course is produced by EASI (Equal
Access to Software and Information) which starts Monday, February 7.
For a syllabus and course costs and online registration:
http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm

Course outline:
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Images, animations and image maps.
Lesson 3: Multimedia<
Lesson 4: Hypertext links and page orientation.
Lesson 5: Graphs and charts.
Lesson 6: Scripts, applets, & plug-ins.
Lesson 7: Frames and tables.
Lesson 8: Check your work.

Barrier-free E-learning also starts Feb. 7.
Five EASI courses will earn the Certificate in Accessible Information
Technology:
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

EASI has been delivering online courses about creating accessible
information technology systems for more than a decade to participants from
more than 3 dozen countries.

February 8 is the start of a 4-part, live Web conference series on creating
accessible multimedia for the Internet:
http://easi.cc/forms/multi-series.htm
Norman Coombs Ph.D.



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EASI Is the premiere provider of online courses on designing accessible
information technology:
(a package of five courses will earn the Certificate in Accessible
Information Technology)
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
** Also check our monthly interact Web conferences on accessible IT:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

                                                Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
CEO EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
22196 Caminito Tasquillo
        Laguna Hills CA 92653
home: (949)  855-4852
        Cell: (949) 922-5992
E-mail: nrcgsh@rit.edu
                http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh

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