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Our Mission
We're here to help you:
- Evaluate the accessibility of web and other IT resources
- Optimize web design to include accessibility best practices
- Learn more about accessibility issues relating to all forms of digital media and platforms
If it relates to IT accessibility at the University of Illinois, we're here to provide or help you find the information and training you need.
Events
- SoftChalk Lessonbuilder
- Presenter: Chris Dobson, Harper College
- Date: 4/19/2012
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Location: Online
- Registration: http://www.adaconferences.org/IBHE/Register/
- 2012 Digital Accessibility Expo
- Presenter: Various
- Date: 4/20/2012
- Time: -
- Location: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Registration: http://www.cvent.com/events/2012-digital-accessibility-expo/event-summary-05e337dca98549e985cd0bf47b6c1f70.aspx
- Webmasters Forum 2012
- Presenter: Various
- Date: 4/25/2012
- Time: -
- Location: Illini Union
- Registration: https://webmasters.illinois.edu/index.php/registration/
- Adobe Captivate
- Presenter: Giovanni Duarte, DeVry Inc. Online Services
- Date: 5/17/2012
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Location: Online
- Registration: http://www.adaconferences.org/IBHE/Register/
- Accessible Webinars
- Presenter: Robin A. Jones, Great Lakes ADA Center & Peggy H. Greenwell, US Access Board
- Date: 9/6/2012
- Time: 1:30 pm -
- Location: Online
- Registration: https://secure71.inmotionhosting.com/~access20/Login/
News
E-reader Accessibility
On June 29, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education sent out a "Dear Colleague Letter" (DCL) to college and university presidents across the nation. The letter expressed their concern regarding the use of "electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision." More specifically they state there is "a serious problem with some of these devices [in that] they lack an accessible text-to-speech function."
ProfHacker: How to Create Accessible Microsoft Office Files
(Chronicle of Higher Education) Check your Office documents for accessibility when sharing with students, co-workers, or the Web.
German IPhone App Guides Handicapped Around Cities
(AP via NPR) German iPhone app guides handicapped around cities.
After Chronicle Report, a Tech Company Improves Accessibility for Blind Users
(Chronicle of Higher Education) A company that sells a social-networking application to colleges is improving the accessibility of its product after problems with the software were spotlighted in a Chronicle report on flawed technology that locks out blind users.
Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online
(Chronicle of Higher Education) More than 19,000 people have visited a new student union that Arizona State University put up last year to build a better sense of campus community. Darrell Shandrow, a blind senior studying journalism, can't get through the front door.
Feds Give $1.1-Million for E-Textbooks for Vision-Impaired Students
(Chronicle of Higher Education) The Department of Education is kick-starting a program to get modified e-textbooks in the hands of students with disabilities.
ProfHacker: Academic Resources and Universal Design
(Chronicle of Higher Education) In what ways might academic environments be improved for all if more of us took the principles of universal design to heart?
