<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear
ATHEN Members (& listserv participants):</span><br></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Early-bird
Registration for the 2015 Accessing Higher Ground (AHG) Conference ends after
this Thursday (September 23). </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">ATHEN
members receive a $75 discount off registration fees.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Keynote
Speaker</b>: Whitney Quesenbery, UX Researcher and <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Director of Center for Civic Design</span>, will speak on <i>Getting from Barrier-Free to Great User Experiences</i>,
focusing on the intersection between user experience and accessibility.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Highlights
from this year’s program:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">(titles link to session description) </p>

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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:windowtext">Lab: <a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=3049&vday=Tuesday">Creating
     and Working with Accessible Office 2013 Content</a>, Karen McCall, Owner,
     Karlen Communications</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">Lab:
     <a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2707&vday=Tuesday">All
     About Video</a>, Terrill Thompson, University of Washington, Ken Petri,
     The Ohio State University</li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2682&vday=Thursday&vdis=grid">OCR's
     Year In Review</a>, Mary Lou Mobley, U.S. Dept. of Education</li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2663&vday=Thursday&vdis=grid">Building
     Accessibility Auditing into Course Development</a>, Kara Zirkle, George
     Mason University</li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:windowtext">Lab: <a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2689&vday=Monday">Working
     with Inaccessible PDFs</a>, Gaeir Dietrich, High Tech Center Training Unit
     (HTCTU)</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2622&vday=Wednesday&vdis=grid">Designing
     a Mobile Ready Course with Universal Design</a>, Kate Miller, UC Denver</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2657&vday=Wednesday&vdis=grid">The
     Elephant on Campus: Captioning</a>, Deb Castiglione, University of
     Kentucky</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:windowtext">Lab: <a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=3100&vday=Monday">Evaluating
     Web Accessibility</a>, Jon Whiting, WebAIM</span><span style="font-size:10pt">, Nancy
     Swenson, UCF</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2015.php?vpropid=2626&vday=Tuesday">Building
     an Accessibility Plan and Testing to Ensure it's Working</a>, Kara Zirkle,
     Stephanie Robbins, & Korey Singleton, George Mason University</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
</ul>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">And over 80 more<span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">View <a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/wednesday-grid-schedule2015/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,147);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">complete agenda</span></a> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cvent.com/d/qrqrkn/4W" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,147);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Register now</span></b></a>.</p>

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<h2>More Info </h2>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Conference URL: </span><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://accessinghigherground.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Howard Kramer at: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:hkramer@ahead.org" target="_blank">hkramer@ahead.org</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Conference dates: November 16 - 18, 2015</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Howard Kramer</div><div>Conference Coordinator</div><div>Accessing Higher Ground</div><div>303-492-8672</div><div>cell: 720-351-8668</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Join us for the <b><a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Accessing Higher Ground</span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Conference</span></a></b> in Denver, Colorado,  <span><span>Nov 16-20, 2015</span></span>.  Complete Attendee, Exhibitor, Hotel, and Registration materials are available now.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Complete program information and registration is open for our full line-up of webinars, <b><i><a href="http://ahead.org/learn/virtual-learning/webinars" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">AHEADtoYOU!</span></a></i></b><i> </i>And the <b><a href="http://ahead.org/learn/virtual-learning/at_webinars_15_16" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Technology Access Series</span></a></b>.  Site capacities for all webinar events is limited; please register at your earliest convenience for the largest selection.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Not yet a member of AHEAD?  <b><a href="http://ahead.org/join/become-a-member" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">We welcome you to join AHEAD now.</span></a></b></span></p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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