Creating Accessible Online Learning

Speaker: Yianna Vovides

9:30am-10:45am in West Meeting Room

During this interactive session, we will explore ways that can aid both designers and instructors in providing an accessible online learning environment. We will examine the principles of universal design for learning to and brainstorm on how these principles can be used as a guide in designing and developing online courses. We will address some of the challenges that may arise in online learning from both the instructor and student perspectives.

CSS Basics

Speaker: Jim Doran

9:30am-10:45am in East Meeting Room

Cascading Style Sheets are a powerful tool in the web designer and developer’s accessibility toolbox. This presentation explains what CSS is, how to get started designing with style sheets, and explores useful resources and techniques for creating fabulous and accessible websites.

Roles and Responsibilities in the World of Web Accessibility

Speaker: Kara Zirkle

9:30am-10:45am in Banquet Room

This presentation is to discuss the different roles and responsibilities in making a universally accessible world. We will discuss the law of Section 508, how it may apply and tools to help achieve your goals.

Accessibility Testing Lab

Speaker: NFB Representative

11:00am-12:15pm in Dining Room

NFB representatives will walk through the necessary steps of website evaluation as well as demonstrate access validation tools.

Building a Case for Web Accessibility: Legal Requirements

Speaker: Gerard St. Ours

11:00am-12:15pm in West Meeting Room

This session will provide an overview of current legal issues pertaining to web accessibility, including a discussion of the pending Target.com litigation.

Testing for Accessibility (Testing Strategies)

Speaker: Sandra Clark

11:00am-12:15pm in Banquet Room

How does one test for accessibility? What are the requirements of a tester? What tools are out there for testing? Is there one tool that will do it all? Sandra Clark will go through the process of testing for accessibility and try to provide a ray of light in the murkiness that is testing for accessibility.

Web Content Management and Accessibility Compliance

Speaker: Francis Swift

11:00am-12:15pm in East Meeting Room

By simplifying and governing the Web publishing process, SiteExecutive Web content management software provides a mechanism for enabling the consistent application of accessibility best practices. During this session, Fran Swift, director of Systems Alliance's Web Effectiveness practice, will explore the process of developing and maintaining accessible Websites in distributed Web publishing environment using SiteExecutive.

Accessibility Testing Lab

Speaker: NFB Representative

1:45pm-3:00pm in Dining Room

NFB representatives will walk through the necessary steps of website evaluation as well as demonstrate access validation tools.

Video and Multimedia: Supporting Different Needs and Platforms

Speaker: Vicki Leon

1:45pm-3:00pm in Banquet Room

This session will demystify accessibility for multimedia. It will show examples of the ways multimedia can be made accessible. This will include captioning and video description for both web and DVD distribution. There will be examples of accessible DVDs, including talking DVD menus and how to produce them.

Writing for Accessible PDFs

Speaker: Sandra Clark

1:45pm-3:00pm in East Meeting Room

This session will cover tips and techniques for writing accessible PDFs in Word. The instruction will deal primarily with ways to write an underlying Word document so that it translates more successfully into an accessible PDF.