Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center

A Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center

Training Opportunities

The Great Lakes Center offers training to educational entities and to other trainiers about accessible Education-Based Information Technology. Training for businesses and private organizations is also available. Out topics include:

• Hardware
• Operating Systems
• Electronic Document Accessibility
• Self-contained, closed products
• Software Applications
• Telecommunications Products
• Video and Multimedia Products
• Web-based Information and Applications
• Distance Learning
• Campus Policy & Procurement Issues
• Accessible IT Deployment and Implementation
• Guidelines, Standards, and Legal Implications
• ..and more

Our trainings also come with supplementary material, as well as follow-up support. Trainings can be arranged for workshops or large-scale conferences. Contact the Accessible EBIT Initiative for more information.

Trainings

REHAB711NC: Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources

More information:
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/courses/2005-01-REHAB711NC/overview.html

Cost: $349
Credits:3.5 CEUs are available for this course from the University of Illinois

Start Date: 25 January

Course Outline

• Alternative views of the web
• Web Standards
• Web accessibility standards
• Design vs. repair for accessibility
• Creating Structure and Layout
• Using Cascading Style Sheets
• Scripting alternatives for styling
• Multi-Media
• MS Office, PDF and Flash

Who Should Take This Course?
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.

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248
E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu
WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/