From petri.1 at osu.edu Tue Feb 5 15:13:28 2008 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Tue Feb 5 15:13:31 2008 Subject: [wac] Web Accessibility Center Winter 2008 workshops and registration Message-ID: Hi All, The Web Accessibility Center will be giving five workshops during the last couple of weeks of February. As always, workshops are offered at no charge to OSU faculty, staff and students. All workshops are four hours long and conducted in the 009 computer lab in the basement of Ramseyer Hall. Here's the line up with a link to registration, below: * Wednesday, Feb. 20, 12:30 to 4:30, "PDF Best Practices," Covers creation of accessible and highly usable PDF from Word documents. We also look at the accessibility diagnostic tools in Acrobat, retrofitting PDF forms for accessibility, and the form tools in Acrobat and Live Cycle Designer. We will also look at and assess the PDF "add-on" which Microsoft makes available for Word 2007. * Friday, Feb. 22, 12:30 to 4:30, "Testing Web Pages for Universal Usability," Covers use of free online, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browser-based tools and general techniques that can help determine the accessibility and usability of web pages to help guarantee compliance with OSU Minimum Web Accessibility Standards policy and to improve the user experience for all. We will also walk through basic usage of the JAWS screen reader and look at the capabilities of Firevox, a free, cross-platform screen reader for Firefox. We will discuss ARIA support for web applications within screen readers, as well. * Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Feb. 27, 28, and 29 (times vary), "Dead-Simple" series on HTML and CSS web implementation, Our evolving series of workshops that cover hand-coding of web pages. As with other workshops we offer, the focus is on universal usability in content and design. Registration and full descriptions: http://wac.osu.edu/workshops/ Apologies for cross-postings. Thanks for supporting the WAC! ken ------------------------------------------------------- Ken Petri Program Director OSU Web Accessibility Center 102D Pomerene Hall 1760 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 Phone: (614) 292-1760 Fax: (614) 292-4190 mailto:petri.1@osu.edu -------------------------------------------------------