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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Oct 3, 2001 8:04AM

The University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana is offering a 16 session
Internet based course on Web accessibility:
REHAB 711NC: Designing Universally Accessible WWW Resources for People with
Disabilities:
This course is designed for web content developers to learn about the
disability access issues faced by people with disabilities in using the web
and how web resources can be designed to improve accessibility. The course
provides a foundation on how people with disabilities access information on
the web using mainstream browsers and specialized assistive technologies
like speech renderings. Participants will learn about the two main
standards for web accessibility, the W3C Web Content Accessibility
Standards and the Section 508 requirements for web materials. The strengths
and weaknesses of different evaluation and repair tools will be presented
to help participants understand how to use the available tools to evaluate
and repair their web resources. Participants will learn about common HTML
accessibility problems, and HTML and CSS techniques that can be used to
improve accessibility. Captioning of multimedia materials is also covered
for Microsoft Media Player, Real Player and Quicktime, and the
accessibility of non-W3C technologies like PDF and Flash will also be
discussed.
The course is will be offered over the web and students will receive a
CD-ROM of the software demonstrated or used in the course. Students are
expected to have their own computer system and will need to use either
Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator to participate in the classroom
lecture and discussion. A technology called LearningBias is being used for
the course. Potential participants who are concerned about accessibility
issues of the Learning Bias system should contact the instructor as soon as
possible.
More information at:
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/courses/2001-10-REHAB711NC/index.html
Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820
Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund
WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua