<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">14<sup>th</sup>

Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">On November 14-18, 2011, CU-Boulder will host the 14<sup>th</sup>

annual <i>Accessing Higher Ground:

Accessible Media, Web & Technology Conference</i> at the Westin Hotel in

Westminster. The conference focuses on the benefits of Web Standards and

Universal Design for Digital Media along with strategies for making campus

information resources accessible for students with disabilities and effective

for all audiences. </p>

<h3>Highlights from the program of over 60 sessions</h3>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Don’t Ask, Do Tell: Making Third Party Web Sites

Accessible Without the Owners’ Help and Educating Owners on How to Make Better

Sites<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Accessibility Testing in the Real World</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Lab: Authoring Math Content for the Web and

DAISY<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Accessible Text Production: What has been

successful for George Mason University</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Evaluating web content accessibility - using

WAVE to facilitate human evaluation<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Moodle 2 Accessibility: Results from NC State

University’s Accessibility Evaluation<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

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</span></span></span>Rolling Craps on Canvas - Accessible Forms and

Graphics with HTML5<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Integrating Accessibility into the Design of

Online Learning Management systems: Theories and Practice<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Bring your own computer (or not) session: Nuts

& Bolts of Captioning Digital Multimedia</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>An ATHEN Workshop on Implementing Accessibility

on Campus - A-Z</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Implementation of a Multimedia Accessibility

& Captioning Policy: a case study from the University of Illinois</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Lab: ARIA and HTML5 Accessibility, Jared Smith,

WebAIM<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Lab: Working with Accessible PDF Documents</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Over 60 presentations and hands-on sessions

taught by national experts</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:

Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       

</span></span></span>Over 35 hours of hands-on workshops included in

the agenda.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">For the full agenda, visit the conference url at <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference/">http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference/</a>.

Please contact Howard Kramer at <a href="mailto:hkramer@colorado.edu">hkramer@colorado.edu</a>

or 492-8672 if you have any questions.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Howard Kramer<br>AHG Conference Coordinator<br>Access Specialist<br>303-492-8672<br>fax: 492-5601<br>Disability Services<br>Division of ODECE- achieving excellence through diversity and inclusion<br>