[Athen] Free EASI Webinar: Updating the Diagram Center to Enhance Image accessibility

[Prof Norm Coombs]

  Free EASI Webinar: Updating the Diagram Center to Enhance Image
  accessibility

Tuesday August 18 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern


    Presenter: Lisa Wadors

"As digital content is quickly shifting to include richer, more visual 
components like complex graphics, simulations and interactives, the need 
to make images accessible has become ever more pressing. To address this 
need, Benetech launched the DIAGRAM Center—a research and development 
hub working to set standards, generate best practices and design tools 
to ensure that images found in digital content (like eBooks) are 
accessible to everyone."

Visit the Diagram Center home page diagramcenter.org 
<http://diagramcenter.org/>

The Diagram center says that four main areas drive its work, informed by 
its founding goals and objectives:

•Standards – In the fast-moving, ever-changing world of digital content 
standards, our goal is to make sure that accessibility is always part of 
the equation so that publishers and other content creators can easily 
figure out what they need to do to make their products accessible to 
all. Standards facilitate creation of accessible content when it’s 
needed: at the moment of publication.

•Tools & Software Development – Poet is DIAGRAM’s free open-source tool 
for crowd-sourced image description. In keeping with our goal of 
dramatically changing the way image and graphic content for accessible 
instructional materials (AIM) are produced and accessed, we also partner 
with other organizations to develop tools that achieve this goal.

•Research – DIAGRAM both conducts its own research and partners with 
other organizations to conduct research in exciting areas such as 
tactile graphics, 3D printing, haptic feedback, accessibility metadata, 
and interactive graphics.

•Training & Outreach – We conduct free quarterly webinars for content 
creators on image description, accessible math, and many other topics. 
In addition, we maintain a blog and Twitter feed to keep the community 
abreast of developments.

Use the link below to register for this August 18 free Webinar:

http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#august


    EASI individual and institutional annual Webinar memberships

Easi annual Webinar members have:

·free access to all fee-based Webinars

·discount on EASI online courses on accessible information technology

·free access to dozens of previous Webinar archives

Read about membership from:

http://easi.cc/sub.htm

Read about courses and Webinars from the EASI homepage:

http://easi.cc

Norm (norm.coombs at gmail.com <mailto:norm.coombs at gmail.com>)


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