[html4all] On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the W3C emerging ARIA Specifications

[Gregory J. Rosmaita]

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From: Jon Gunderson <jongund at uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:08:42 -0500 (CDT)
Subj: On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the W3C emerging ARIA 
Specifications

I am going to be teaching an on-line course on Web 2.0 accessibility 
issues to try to raise more awareness of Web 2.0 accessibility issues 
and how the ARIA specifications are supporting accessibility of Web 2.0 
interface technologies.

I would appreciate it if you know of people who would be interested in 
taking this course to pass this information on to them.

Thanks,
Jon

On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the emerging W3C ARIA 
Specifications

More information
http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/courses/web20online/

Dates and Time
* Dates: November 26th to December 19th, 2007
* Days: Monday and Wednesdays
* Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST (Chicago Local Time)

Overview

The on-line course is designed for web developers creating Web 2.0 
applications to learn about the accessibility of these technologies to 
people with disabilities. Participants will learn about keyboard support, 
focus management issues and how to use the emerging W3C Accessible 
Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specifications to create accessible Web 
2.0 applications. Participants will learn about the accessibility issues 
faced by people with disabilities in using the web, and how web 2.0 
resources can be designed to improve accessibility using the ARIA 
technologies. Participants will learn about keyboard models, setting 
keyboard focus, the W3C Roles for ARIA and States and Properties Module 
for ARIA specifications for making web 2.0 widgets compatible with 
assistive technologies through ARIA support in Firefox browser and 
assistive technologies like WindowEyes and JAWS screen readers. 
Participants will build and test the accessible Web 2.0 widgets using a 
best practices model, and learn about compatibility issues related to 
supporting ARIA widgets with Microsoft Internet Explorer and creating 
valid HTML documents.

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology (DRES)

WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
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