[gui-talk] Fwd: On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the W3C emerging ARIA Specifications

[David Andrews]

>From: Jon Gunderson <jongund at uiuc.edu>
>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:08:42 -0500 (CDT)
>Subj: On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the W3C emerging ARIA
>Specifications
>
>I am going to be teaching an on-line course on Web 2.0 accessibility
>issues to try to raise more awareness of Web 2.0 accessibility issues
>and how the ARIA specifications are supporting accessibility of Web 2.0
>interface technologies.
>
>I would appreciate it if you know of people who would be interested in
>taking this course to pass this information on to them.
>
>Thanks,
>Jon
>
>On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the emerging W3C ARIA
>Specifications
>
>More information
>http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/courses/web20online/
>
>Dates and Time
>* Dates: November 26th to December 19th, 2007
>* Days: Monday and Wednesdays
>* Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST (Chicago Local Time)
>
>Overview
>
>The on-line course is designed for web developers creating Web 2.0
>applications to learn about the accessibility of these technologies to
>people with disabilities. Participants will learn about keyboard support,
>focus management issues and how to use the emerging W3C Accessible
>Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specifications to create accessible Web
>2.0 applications. Participants will learn about the accessibility issues
>faced by people with disabilities in using the web, and how web 2.0
>resources can be designed to improve accessibility using the ARIA
>technologies. Participants will learn about keyboard models, setting
>keyboard focus, the W3C Roles for ARIA and States and Properties Module
>for ARIA specifications for making web 2.0 widgets compatible with
>assistive technologies through ARIA support in Firefox browser and
>assistive technologies like WindowEyes and JAWS screen readers.
>Participants will build and test the accessible Web 2.0 widgets using a
>best practices model, and learn about compatibility issues related to
>supporting ARIA widgets with Microsoft Internet Explorer and creating
>valid HTML documents.
>
>Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
>Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology (DRES)
>
>WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
>WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/

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