[senit] Webcast: Cognitive Disabilities and the Web

From the January NCDAE Accessibility Newsletter

I think the UK time for this webcast is 8pm-9pm on 31st January (MST is GMT-7)

Norma Price

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From: Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk>
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 17 January, 2007 11:31:17 AM
Subject: [senit] Webcast: Cognitive Disabilities and the Web

>From the January NCDAE Accessibility Newsletter
(http://ncdae.org/community/#newsletters):

Upcoming Webcast - January 31, 2007

The National Center on Access and Education (NCDAE) is hosting the
webcast titled "Cognitive Disabilities and the Web: What We Think We
Know." It will be held Wednesday January 31st, 2007 from 1:00 - 2:00
PM MST. The audio broadcast will last approximately one hour. It is
free of charge and will be captioned simultaneously for the deaf and
hard of hearing.

The field of accessible Web design has moved in important positive
directions in the past decade to improve accessibility to groups of
individuals with disabilities, mainly those with sensory and motor
impairments. Yet individuals with cognitive disabilities (the greatest
numbers within the disability population) have been largely ignored.
This is in part due to a lack of consensus in the field about what
recommendations should be made. The panel will explore both
professional opinion and empirical research across different
disciplines to help us determine what recommendations could be
provided to the field now, if any.

More information is available at http://ncdae.org/webcasts/cognitive.cfm.

-- 
Steve Lee
www.oatsoft.org
www.schoolforge.org.uk
www.fullmeasure.co.uk