[Athen] FW: Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group

[Terry Thompson]

With the recent discussions on Blackboard accessibility, some of you might
be interested in participating in this group... 

Terry 


-----Original Message-----
From: Equal Access to Software & Information
[mailto:EASI at LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG] On Behalf Of Hadi Bargi Rangin
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:39 PM
To: EASI at LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG
Subject: Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group

To anyone interested in accessibility of Blackboard Course Management Tool

We would like to start the Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group that will
be focusing and resolving accessibility issues with Blackboard in a kind of
collaborative way with other colleges and the Blackboard/WebCT company.

About 1.5 years ago we established a similar interest group with other
universities and worked together with WebCT (before WebCT/Blackboard
merge) and achieved very positive results so that accessibility is now part
of their design and QA process. We believe we can achieve similar result if
we work together. To start the Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group I
would like to ask anyone who is interested in working together on this
project to join us at our first teleconference in this regard. Call-in
information follows.
Please drop me a note and let me know if you are planning to participate. I
need to know how many people are joining us on this teleconference to order
enough call-in telephone ports. Please send your note to hadi at uiuc.edu and
not to the list.

Info about the first Blackboard Accessibility teleconference:

Date: Tuesday June 13 2006
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT (Chicago Local Time)
Phone: 217 244-7532

Thanks and sorry for cross-postings.

Hadi

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Hadi Bargi Rangin
Web Design and Accessibility Specialist
Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services University of
Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL  61820
Voice: (217) 244-0518
Fax: (217) 333-0248
E-mail: hadi at uiuc.edu
WWW: http://disability.uiuc.edu