Instructor Contact Information Great Lakes ADA and On-Line Course Accessible Information Designing Universally Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., APT Technology Center Accessible Web Div. of Rehab. – Education Services Resources College of Applied Life Studies The Great Lakes Center was founded University of Illinois at in 1991 and is one of 10 national February 18th to April 24st Urbana/Champaign centers established by the US 2003
Department of Education, National Voice: (217) 244-5870 Institute on Disability Rehabilitation TTY: (217) 333-4604 and Research (NIDRR) to provide E-mail: [email protected] technical assistance regarding the ADA. The Great Lakes Center serves http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/courses the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Services include operation Course Meeting Times and of an 800 number for technical
assistance and dissemination of Dates (Tenative) Instructor information regarding the ADA through
training and direct mail. In addition, Dates: February 18th to April 24st Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP the Center has expanded its mission
to include issues related to the use Sponsored by Day: Tuesday and Thursday and acquisition of accessible Division of Rehabilitation – Education Services College of Applied Life Studies information technology and it’s impact Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm CST University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign on individuals within a variety of And (Chicago, IL local time) settings, including education, business Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center Department of Disability and Human and government. The Center Development consistently ranks the highest for University of Illinois at Chicago Course Technology volume of calls and number of www.adagreatlakes.org And individuals trained among the 10 Illinois Board of Higher Education Slides and Text Chat: HTML Web centers nationally. Browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator) Voice/TTY: 800-949-4232 Supported by funding provided under FAX: 312-413-1856 Grant #H133D010203, National Institute on WWW: www.adagreatlakes.org Rehabilitation and Research, US Audio: Real Media Player Department of Education. E-mail: [email protected]
Who Should Participate Course Outline Instructional Materials
This course is designed for web Course Topics: Required Resources developers to learn how to create • Alternative Views of the Web universally accessible web resources • Web Accessibility Standards REHAB 7111 NC CD-ROM for people with disabilities. The course • Evaluation and Repair Tools Operasoft Opera 6.0 provides an overview of the • Describing Images Internet Explorer 6.0 techniques used by people with • Creating Structure and Layout Netscape Navigator 7.0 disabilities to access information on • Using Cascading Style Sheets Hotmetal Pro Demo Magpie the web using mainstream browsers • Scripting Accessibility and specialized speech output Quicktime Player • Multi-Media Captioning technologies. Participants will learn Real Media Player • PDF and Flash about the two main standards for web Microsoft Media Player accessibility, the W3C Web Content • Authoring tools Accessibility Standards and the Section 508 requirements for web Optional Materials materials. The strengths and weaknesses of different accessibility Registration Information Accessible Web Sites, Jim Thatcher, evaluation and repair tools will be et. al., Glasshauss. presented to help participants Course Rubric: REHAB 711NC understand how to use the tools to Dynamic HTML: The Definitive evaluate and repair their web Registration fees: $285 Reference, Danny Goodman, resources. Participants will learn O’Reilly. accessibility features of various HTML WWW: http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu/ design practices and how to design or Cascading Style Sheets, designing web resources using HTML and CSS Contact: Jon Gunderson for the Web, Hakon Wium Lie and that benefit all users, including people E-mail: [email protected] Bert Bos, Addison Wesley with disabilities. Captioning of Phone: 217-244-5870 multimedia materials is also covered Designing Web Usability, Jakob for Microsoft Media Player, Real Nielson, New Riders Publishing Player and Quicktime, and the accessibility of non-W3C technologies like PDF and Flash will also be discussed.