Universal Accessibility Interest Group

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Charge: Offers librarians, support staff, students, and other advocates networking and collaboration opportunities, information sharing and programming to promote accessibility in academic libraries, including web accessibility, assistive technology, reference and instruction for users with disabilities and captioning processes.
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  • 1.  Upcoming Accessibility Webinars

    Posted Sep 11, 2014 10:48 AM

    FYI...

    Free Webinar: Creating accessible Narrated PowerPoint
    Presenter: Norman Coombs, CEO EASI and Professor Emeritas RIT
    Tuesday Sept. 16: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern

    Creating accessible narrated Powerpoint, first assumes an accessible
    PowerPoint presentation. This will only be touched on briefly in this
    presentation. Next, the presentation will walk participants through
    the process of setting up the parameters for the show and then
    recording the content to go with each slide. Last, it will explain
    the different options for the show's output and the reasons for each choice.

    Free EASI Webinar: PDF in the Classroom: The Future of Digital Textbooks
    Presenters: Karen McCall and Adam Spencer
    Tuesday, September 23 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern

    This Webinar will be an one hour webinar on strategies for
    implementing the PDF/UA (Universal Access) international standard for
    PDF accessibility and what it means to publishers and students with
    disabilities.
    http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#september

    EASI also has a Webinar series in October on creating accessible
    ePub3 documents

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    Check out EASI's New Synchronous Clinics:
    http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

    EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi
    Online Courses and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm



  • 2.  RE: Upcoming Accessibility Webinars

    Posted Sep 15, 2014 01:57 PM

    Hi John,

    Thanks! I'd like to repost this announcement (and the video tutorial one you posted separately) to the LITA Accessibility IG, if you don't mind.

     

    thanks,

    ranti.