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Gary wrote: RealAudio cost around $30 and is easy to instrall. Buy it! Karen Smith wrote: > > Dear LRNASSTers, > > The following message and the broadcast which it describes will be of > interest to all of us as we attempt to guarantee access to appropriate > learning environments and activities to our students. > > Personnally, I am concerned about the visual complexity of some of the > websites being touted by instructors and the difficulty these sites pose > for students with learning difficulties and disabilities. I'm hoping this > broadcast will clarify what I/we can do to eliminate the "artificial access > barriers" which some web pages present. > > My problem now: find someone on campus with 'realaudio' on their computer. > > Karen > > >Sender: Disabled Student Services in Higher Education > > <[log in to unmask]> > >From: Prof Norm Coombs <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Internet Cheetahcast on Designing a Friendly Web > > > >Cheetahcast internet broadcast technology will be used to deliver an > >hour's workshop on designing web pages for universal access. > > > >Wednesday, August 6 at 9 am central daylight time from the 13th distance > >education conference in Madison, Wisconsin. This Cheetahcast will > >combine audio, text captioning and graphics to make a presentation > >itself accessible to participants with different learning styles and > >different disabilities. > > > >Richard Banks and Norman Coombs from EASI (Equal Access to Software and > >Information) an affiliate of the American Association for Higher > >Education will walk participants through a series of web pages pointing > >out common features that create artificial access barriers for some web > >users and will demonstrate some of the simple techniques that permits > >the design of web pages that are visually attractive and also barrier- > >free. > > > >To join the Cheetahcast, you will need a recent version of Explorer or > >Netscape, and to hear the audio, you will need realaudio. For more > >information or to participate on August 6, point your browser at > >www.rit.edu/~easi/webcast.html > > > > > >EASI realizes that this broadcast is not available to all by requiring hardware > >and software produced in the last 4-5 years. We are experimenting with > >tomorrow > >'s technologies in order to help influence their design so they will be > >accessib > >le when the > >average computer can handle. It is a pilot project. > > > > Karen G. Smith > Rutgers University's Learning Resource Centers > [log in to unmask] > <http://lrc.rutgers.edu>