[Accessibility_sig] Web 2.0 Accessibility Workshop at University of Illinois on June 12-13

[Sharron Rush]

If you are working on Web 2.0 applications this workshop will help 
you understand how to start making these applications more accessible 
to people with disabilities using the new W3C ARIA 
specifications.  ARIA has been implemented in Firefox and  screen 
reader technologies.

TITLE: Web 2.0 Accessibility Workshop using W3C ARIA Specifications

Registration Form for Web 2.0 Accessibility Workshop
http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/icitaregistration

Cost: $495 ($295 for Employees of the State of Illinois and Higher 
Educational Institutions in Illinois)

Dates: June 12th and 13th

Location:University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana

Instructor: Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.

Skills: Participants should be familar wirh HTML, CSS and javascript 
technologies.

Recommend text: Javascript: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition

Description
This is a 2 day hands-on workshop designed for web developers to 
learn how to use the emerging W3C Accessible Rich Internet 
Applications (ARIA) recommendations 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 
resources can be designed to improve accessibility using the ARIA web 
standards. Participants will learn about 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 Mozilla 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.

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

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Director of IT Accessibility Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology (DRES)

WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/