DoIT Calendar of Events: December, 2007

Online Accessibility Conference
This conference will discuss online accessibility issues as they impact postsecondary education.

• Date: December 3, 2007
  
• Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PM
  
• Location: Harper College. 1200 West Algonquin Road, Palatine, IL 60067. Room F-127 (Library Lower-level.)
  
• Cost: Free

iTunes U – Podcasting Made Easy Audioconference (sponsored by ITC)
The presenter will share tips and tricks of how to fully implement iTunes U using a Windows-based PC in a Windows-based environment. Technological challenges, solutions, and feedback from faculty and students will be presented. Participants will learn how it was used to dramatically improve passage rates in nursing clinicals.

• Date: December 4, 2007
  
• Time: 1:00 - 2:00PM
  
• Location: Your computer and telephone
  
• Cost: $25. Contact Sarah Stark at 847-925-6805 for tuition-waiver information before registering for this conference.
  Registration: email mmaxwell@itcnetwork.org.
  

Building Quality – Using QM Standards in Online Course Development Audioconference
(sponsored by ITC)
Building quality assurance into the online course development process assists in the efficient creation of high quality courses. The presenters will discuss how they have adapted the research-based Quality Matters rubric standards to build quality into new online using a team approach to course development.

• Date: December 11, 2007
  
• Time: 1:00 - 2:00PM
  
• Location: Your computer and telephone
  
• Cost: $25 Contact Sarah Stark at 847-925-6805 for tuition-waiver information before registering for this conference.
  
• Registration: email mmaxwell@itcnetwork.org

Functional Accessibility Indicator Webcast

• Date: December 12, 2007
  
• Time: 1:30 - 2:30 (CST) Chicago Local Time
  
• Registration: (The webcast is free, but registration is required)
  
• http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/webreg/reg.php

FAE is a reporting tool that was created to help administrators monitor the
accessibility of their web sites and provide developers with relevant
principles and techniques that can help them incorporate accessibility in
their designs as they develop their sites.

FAE produces reports by analyzing web resources for markup that is
consistent with the use of HTML best practices developed by CITA at UIUC.
Reports include both page-level statistics and evaluations as well as
site-level data aggregated across a collection of web resources.

FAE organizes the analysis of documents based on the following categories: Navigation & Orientation: Inclusion of structural markup that facilitates
navigation and contextual orientation;

Text Equivalents: Proper use of images for interoperability and the
provision of text descriptions for non-text content; Scripting: Avoidance of scripting techniques that compromise accessibility
and interoperability; Styling: Use of CSS styling techniques to separate content and structural information from styling and presentation; Standards: Support for standards to improve interoperability and provide more choices in the use of technologies for rendering web content.

Additional information about FAE can be found at http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/