Thursday, September 27 (2PM EASTERN)

Presenter, Ron Stewart

This Webinar is free and open to everyone, but you need to register in advance to reserve

a "seat" in the online conference room!

Currently three national initiatives are underway to attempt to bring a

level playing field to the educational experiences of students with print

disabilities.

1. The National Instructional Materials Standard,

2. the Alternative Format Solutions Initiative of the American Association

of Publishers,

3. AHEAD's E-Text Solutions Group

These 3 organizations are all working from different perspectives to

attempt to insure that curricular access is provided across the educational

spectrum in

the United States. This session will present and explore an overview of

these three efforts, as well as present for discussion the challenges and

benefits of each for our community.

Recent technology is providing e-text books that are easier to navigate and

have vastly improved usefulness. The alternative text user has access,

navigation and control of the document that is about as good as that of

print users and provides a significant step forward in leveling the

learning space both in higher education and in K-12. Authoring tools are

also being created that makes it simpler to provide such e-texts. Students

need to know how to locate such e-books and providers need to learn how to

create them.

We also have a free multimedia demonstration of a simple way to check your

Web pages for accessibility.

Making accessible Web design is essential for making your information an

course content usable by everyone. With the free AIS Accessibility

Toolbar anyone can look at pages and instantly know what needs to be done

to make the pages accessible.

For a free Quicktime multimedia overview of the Power of the AIS toolbar,

send an email message to easi15@easi.cc.

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Note the October EASI online course is Barrier-free Web Design