MORNING: ACCESSIBILITY OF ON-LINE TEACHING AND LEARNING

8:30 Welcome Message from FSU President Wetherell and Dr. Mary Coburn.

8:45 - 9:30: Online Instruction Overview:
What does universal access mean? How is online equal instructional access achieved for students who are blind and visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, those with mobility impairments, reading disorders (dyslexia), and ADHD? This session will explore the big picture of accessible online teaching and learning:

• How are students with disabilities affected by inaccessible course content?
• What makes technologies accessible?
• What are the legal requirements?
• What standards, guidelines, and resources are available to assist in ensuring that instructional content is delivered in a way that is accessible to all students?

9:30 - 10:30 - Accessibility Nuts and Bolts
Do you have a teaching strategy for students with a disability?
This is a "how to" session in which participants will be led through a mock Blackboard course, which features a variety of accessibility problems and solutions. How do you give equal access in Blackboard or on your website to HTML, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word documents, and PowerPoint slideshow to all students?

10:30 - BREAK

10:45 - 11:45 - ACCESSIBILITY @ FSU moderated by Jane Barrager, College of Information; Bonnie Armstrong and Karin Smalkoski, Assessment Services
Where are we now? Where do we want to be? How do we want to get there?
This is a moderated discussion in which FSU faculty, staff, and administrators have an opportunity to brainstorm the current state of instructional technology accessibility at FSU, and to identify next steps for moving forward.

LUNCHEON – Student Panel – What IS it like to be a person with a disability attending a major university?
Real students with real issues: When people stop being polite and start getting real.

AFTERNOON: MOVING TOWARDS EQUAL WEB ACCESSIBILITY

1:10 - 2:30 - Web Accessibility Overview – Where are we now?
What does universal access to HTML sites mean? How is web equal access achieved for people who are blind and visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, those with mobility impairments, reading disorders (dyslexia), and ADHD? This session will explore the big picture of accessible online teaching and learning:

• How are students with disabilities affected by inaccessible web content?
• What makes technology accessible?
• What are the legal requirements?
• What standards, guidelines, and resources are available to assist in ensuring that university content is delivered in a way that is accessible to all students?
• Demonstration of common problems and solutions on HTML sites.

2:30 - 3:30 - Web Accessibility, Moving beyond HTML
This is a whirlwind tour of the state of accessibility on a variety of technologies and file formats used in delivering web content, including Adobe PDF, Flash, multimedia, PowerPoint, Blackboard, Java, and AJAX. Resources will be provided so that participants can follow up for more detailed information about specific technologies.

3:30 BREAK

3:45 - 4:30 - Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility - where to test @ FSU moderated by Christopher Schmitt and Joanna Southerland
After a brief introduction to available web accessibility evaluation tools, this session will allow participants to discuss the accessibility of specific FSU websites. This is an opportunity for those with promising designs to demonstrate their approaches to accessibility, and for those with challenging accessibility problems to brainstorm possible solutions.