There are 3 different Webinar formats: Snapshots are short and
focused, Webinars are hour-long public presentations and Webinar
series are 4-part, fee-based detailed training running for 4
sequential weeks. You can read more and register online at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Free Webinar Snapshot: What is an Accessible Vodcast? (March 5)
Free Webinar Snapshot: FireFox Browser Extensions (March 19)
Free Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Scanning Text (March 6 hour-long)
Free Webinar: Updating NLS Library of Congress Uses of Digital Book
Formats
(March 20 hour long)
Fee-based Webinar: 4-part fee-based Series: Creating Accessible and
Usable PDF Documents
(starting March 11)
Snapshot: What is an Accessible Vodcast?
Wed. March 5 - 2PM EASTERN (New York) Time
Presenter: Dick Banks
Dick Banks explains what Vodcasts are and what devices will display
them. He will also explain how to add streaming captions to them that
will display on small hand-held players.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Hour-long Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Scanning Text
Thursday, March 6 - 2PM EASTERN (New York) Time
Presenter: Doug Powles
The idea of converting printed materials to text is certainly not new.
The technology that makes that possible has certainly changed.
This hour long presentation will discuss tips and tricks of scanning
materials and getting more accurate results. Things like paper
quality, type quality and methods to improve results will be
discussed.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Snapshot: FireFox Browser Extensions
Wed. March 19 - 2PM EASTERN (New York) Time
Presenter: Dick Banks
Firefox is the browser of choice for more and more people because it
is not as vulnerable to hacking. Like Internet Explorer, it has many
extensions that enhance its uses including helping developers evaluate
and test Web pages for Accessibility.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Open Webinar: Updating NLS Library of Congress Uses of Digital Book
Formats
Thursday, March 20 - 2PM EASTERN (New York) Time
Presenters will include:
Lloyd Rasmussen, Acting Head, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and
3 consumers who have been part of the pilot digital book test group
will discuss their experiences with the new audio DAISY format
The Library of Congress National Library Service has been providing
books in special formats such as Braille and talking books for well
over half a century. NLS is currently starting to produce new books
ina digital audio format with DAISY type navigation. During 2007 it
has been conducting a pilot trial with a number of users who were
provided a special player and who have been downloadingbooks from the
Web. NLS will be issuing new players to its regular customers this
year and opening the new digital books for general use.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
Webinar Series: Creating Accessible and Usable PDF Documents
Tuesday March 11, 18, 25 and April 1 (2PM EASTERN)
(This fee-based series is free to all EASI annual Webinar members)
PDF or ****table document format is a very popular document type. It
was conceived as an electronic way to produce documents with the look
and feel of a highly designed print document. It gave the page
designer almost total control over how the page would look on anyone's
computer monitor. It also began as actually being a picture of the
page rather than containing actual text. This was totally inaccessible
for someone using a screen reader as there was no text as such just a
picture of the text. Adobe has continually worked to make the product
richer and more flexible. Screen readers can handle it or the most
part and screen magnification software can also enlarge the text
without distorting it. Because the various creation software are so
many and so rich, the page creator needs to know a bit about PDF
formatting and about the accessibility issues andtheir solutions. For
anyone wanting to create quality and more
complex PDF documents, there is a need to learn the features provided
in Acrobat. Karen McCall has published on PDF accessibility
and is a beta tester for Adobe.
March 11: Week One: Getting Our Bearings
March 18: Week Two: Tagging and Repair Tools
March 25: Week three: Intermediate Techniques
April 1 : Week Four: The Next Step
Full description of these lessons is at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
You can also read about EASI annual Webinar member****p at:
http://easi.cc/sub.htm
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