[Athen] EASI 4-part, fee-based Series: Better E-books with DAISY EPUB and More

[Prof Norm Coombs]

EASI 4-part, fee-based Series: Better E-books with DAISY EPUB and More

The accessibility of e-books is almost the hottest topic at 
disability-education-disability conferences. Because it is new, most of us 
don't know nearly enough about it.  We don't know

how it impacts our students, and we don't know what are the future 
prospects for accessibility.

I can't urge you too strongly to take a serious look at attending this 
series. We are on the cutting edge of the coming e-book wave.  Grab the 
wave and take the ride!!! HAVE NO FEAR!

YOU TOO CAN DO IT!

The EASI 4-part, fee-based Series: Better E-books with DAISY EPUB and More 
is scheduled for:
April 10 and 17; May 1 and 8
Times all daylight saving: 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 
PM Eastern
Weeks 1-2, (April 10 and 17), will focus on the DAISY authoring and reading 
products developed by Dolphin.
Presenter: Jeff Bazer from Dolphin Computer Access in the US.
  Jeff will discuss EASY Converter, EASY Producer, and Easy Reader which 
now will read both DAISY and EPUB content.
The buzz is that the epub 3 standard will be highly compatible with the 
DAISY format. We can expect authoring tools to handle both formats in the 
near future. Most hardware DAISY

players now will handle books in epub2.

Week 3, May 1: Overview of the epub and other e-document formats being used 
by publishers of e-books
Presenter: Norm Coombs CEO of EASI, Professor Emeritus from RIT
This Webinar will give an introduction to common document formats 
publishers are using for e-books including books for the Kindle, Nook, Blio 
and Adobe Digital editions. It will

suggest ways that these proprietary formats may be converted to other 
formats and avoid being reader specific.
  It will point to tools that will enable writers to authorbooks in the 
epub format and tools to facilitate changing documents from one

Week 4, May 8: Will demonstrate the add-in which will save Word Documents 
as DAISY Content
Presenter: Craig Mill, Assistive Technology Advisor at CALL Scotland 
(Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning)
  This free add-in for Microsoft Word has been available for a few years, 
but it is being constantly simplified and improved. For example, it now 
handles accessible Math. The presentation

will include YouTube videos Mill created to walk users through the process 
of making personal DAISY content.

EASI Annual Members can register free for the series from 
http://easi.cc/member/index.htn where you will need your member username 
and password. We need your registration so we

can send participants email updates and log in information
There are some scholarships available at:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm

Non-members can register and pay the $225 registration for this 4-part 
series. You can pay by credit card, check or PO at the link below and 
select Web conferences and select the date

for April 10.
https://www.secure.servsite.com/easi/enrollment/enrollment_pal.shtml





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It's never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  Christopher Reeve
Norman Coombs norm.coombs at gmail.com

Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students 
with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html