[Athen] Resources for training

[Burdick, Thomas]

Hello Lorraine,
I usually give this presentation to people who are just beginning. It is technically for "developers" but starts off slow because most developers are coming from a background of nothing as far as accessibility.  You can use anything you want from it. I'm at Kent State so we are a state university that gets both state and federal funding.

I also, highly recommend having people use the WAVE toolbar and download and just try something like NVDA.  From my experience, it really helps people to see what is wrong and how a screen reader and other AT works. (those are both in the slides).  Let me know if you have any questions.



From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Norwich, Lorraine S
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:34 PM
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Subject: [Athen] Resources for training

Dear List,

I am trying to get information together for people who have no background in accessibility and technology and wanted to know what online course or information you recommend I point them to.  This is for a group of non-technical people who want to get up to speed:

The areas I am looking for are:


*         Web accessibility - beginning

*         Distance education accessibility

*         WCAG and 508

*         Social media



Thanks for your help



Lorraine





Lorraine S. Norwich, BSME, MSIS
Assistant Director of Disability Services
Boston University
19 Deerfield Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02215
lnorwich at bu.edu<mailto:lnorwich at bu.edu> (email)
617-353-3658 (vox)
617-353-9646 (fax)
www.bu.edu/disability<http://www.bu.edu/disability> (website)

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