Universal Design Workshop at Joliet Junior College
On-line Registration Form for Workshop
(Registration Fee $40)
(Fee includes a cafeteria voucher for lunch)
Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources workshop will provide experiences in:
- How people with disabilities access the web
- Review the current accessibility guidelines
- Demonstrate accessible design practices
This workshop will help disability service professionals, administrators and web developers understand the need for accessible design of web resources and how changes to web development practices and testing can create web resources that are not only more usable by people with disabilities, but are more usable to everyone. Each participant will receive a CD-ROM of software and web resources on web accessibility, including the full workshop presentation.
Location and Time
- Date: April 20th, 2007
- Time: 9:30am - 2:30pm
- Building and Room: Building C, Room C-2016
- Location: Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois
- Parking: JJC's Campus Police will block off the first row(s) of our South Lot 1 for participants from other schools to park in our South Lot 1: http://www.jjc.edu/Maps/MainCampusMap-WorkshopParking.html
- Campus Directions: General directions to JJC can be found at: http://www.jjc.edu/Maps/MainCampus.html. There will be signs after entering the front entrance letting people know how to get to the South Lot 1 and C Building.
Agenda
Starts at 9:30am
Part 1: Alternative Views of the Web
- Disability simulation
- Adjusting web browsers
- Speech browsing
Break
Part 2: Design Guidelines and Planning
- Accessible Design verses Accessible Repair
- W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines
- Section 508 guidelines
- Functional Accessibility
- IBHE Accessibility Reporting Requirements
Lunch Break (12:00pm-12:45pm)
Part 3: Functional Evaluation Tools
- Web Accessiblity Evalutation Tools
- Webxact
- Cynthia Says
- WebAIM Wave
- Firefox Accessibility Extension
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu - Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu
Break
Part 4: Examples of Redesigning for Accessibility
- Redesigning web resources to be more accessible
- Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office
- Other resources
ends at 2:30pm
Contacts
- Scott Stratton, Joliet Junior College
- Jon Gunderson, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Presentor
Dr. Jon Gunderson is the Director of Information Technology Accessibility for people with disabilities at UIUC in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) and Campus Information Technologies and Education Services (CITES). He has been working in the area of web accessibility for over 10 years and is the past chair of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative User Agent Accessibility Guidelines working group. He has given numerous presentations and has taught several courses on designing universally accessible web resources.
Find out more about web accessibility at the iCITA website