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From: Oliver Burmeister
Date: Mar 21, 2002 12:05AM

Dear All.

Here is a summary of responses I received to the part of my request
(original request copied below) concerning educational resources. Again, my
sincere thanks to all contributors.

I discussed with my colleagues where we could include information about
accessibility in our existing Web Development subject (taken both by
undergraduate students and postgraduate diploma students). It was decided
that next week's lecture on design issues for the web was the only place
that could accommodate a small additional section such as this topic. I have
attached a small (73KB) PowerPoint file (I don't know whether this group
accepts attachments) of my draft and am open to suggestions - remember I
don't have weeks, at best 30 minutes; and it will likely be the only time
they hear/see anything about accessibility in their respective courses.

> 1. I teach HCI at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I would be
> interested in hearing from anyone who has incorporated accessibility
issues
> into their teaching of HCI, to get ideas for how I could do likewise.

Sign up for the Free April Event/Online seminar at WebAIM which will cover
ideas, topics, and issues that will apply to post secondary education and
can also be used for web or other media delivery.
http://www.webaim.org/training2002/

Here is one site that may have some information regarding Accessibility and
the use of Multimedia and Digital technology in Education. This page
maintains a list of resources for educators and teachers.
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/learn/

This area may have some good information on captioning of media
http://ncam.wgbh.org/

The Adaptive Technology Center at the University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/ and http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/education.html
[education section]

Special Needs Opportunity Windows (SNOW) - supporting educators of students
with special needs http://snow.utoronto.ca/

Trace Research & Development Center, University of Wisconsin. The Trace
Center is dedicated to technology more usable by everyone
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/

WebAIM has a paper by Cyndi Rowland, PhD Accessibility of the Internet in
Postsecondary Education: Meeting the Challenge
http://www.webaim.org/articles/meetchallenge

We attempt to embed HCI teaching into all our modules on the undergraduate
degree in Multimedia as well as having a dedicated Media Interface Design
module in Level 2. Over the last couple of years we have introduced
accessibility issues to our Level 1 Semester 1 modules (where they create
web sites using Dreamweaver and continue in each of the subsequent modules.
We use the Bobby site http://www.cast.org/bobby/ for info and testing web
site material. I wouldn't say we were "experts" but just got stuck in as a
result of having contact with a Further Ed College for students with
cerebral palsy and, currently 2 physically disabled (wheelchair and hand
motor problems) students on the course.

My name is Jesus Lores, from lleida Spain. I teach HCI at undergraduate and
postgraduate. I'm the president of the Spanish HCI society. I