[accessibleimage] NCDAE Webcast - Electronic Accessibility in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Hi,
Enclosing link and information from another list about the
webcast from The National Center on Disability and Access to
Education  on Feb. 17. One can also send in a question for
the panel. There is a form at the link page. Thought it
would be of praticular intrest because Dr. John Gardner will
be on the panel.
Regards,
Lisa


http://ncdae.org/webcast.cfm

NCDAE Webcast - Electronic Accessibility in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Overview  Panelists 
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Overview
The National Center on Disability and Access to Education is
pleased to announce another in our series of webcasts. Join
us Thursday, February 17, 2005 for the live audio Webcast
titled "Electronic Accessibility in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics". The broadcast will begin at
1PM Mountain Standard Time (12:00PM Pacific; 2:00PM Central;
3:00PM Eastern). 

You will be able to tune in to the broadcast free of charge
beginning 10 minutes before the broadcast begins. You will
be able to tune in using your computer using either Windows
Media Player or Quicktime. Archives (transcript and audio)
will be available shortly after the conclusion of the
broadcast. The broadcast will be captioned for the Deaf and
hard of hearing and archives will be available shortly after
the conclusion of the broadcast.

The broadcast will last approximately one hour and will
feature Dr. John Gardner Physics professor and Director of
Oregon State University's Science Access Project, Paul
Topping who is president and CEO of Design Science, and
Jared Smith of WebAIM and NCDAE. The panel will address
problems in the electronic accessibility of STEM courses
(i.e.,those in Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics). Of particular interest to listeners will be
discussions on the use of MathML and accessible Flash
simulations.

Panelists
Dr. John Gardner - Physics professor and Director of Oregon
State University's Science Access Project

Dr. John Gardner is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Oregon
State University. He is internationally recognized as a
leading expert on the physics of defects in materials. He
has won a number of scientific awards including the Humboldt
Prize awarded by the German Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation. His physics research has been supported by the
National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the
Office of Naval Research, the Department of Defense, NASA,
and several private corporations and foundations.

He is also founder and CEO of ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. ,
a company that he started several years ago to commercialize
products from Oregon State University Science Access Project
research group. The Science Access Project is dedicated to
research on information technologies providing universal
access to scientific information. Dr. Gardner founded the
Science Access Project after he lost his sight in 1988. John
Gardner has presented hundreds of seminars, colloquia,
workshops, contributed and invited conference talks on
physics and on information access by people with
disabilities throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. He is
considered a leading expert on access to STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Math) information.

Paul Topping - President and CEO of Design Science

Paul Topping is president and CEO of Design Science, makers
of MathType, the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, and
several other products. Design Science has been actively
involved in the standardization of MathML, the W3C's XML
standard for representing math, since its inception. Since
making math accessible has always been part of the MathML
charter, Design Science has also been working to add math
support to  accessibility standards such as DAISY, NIMAS,
and
PDF/Access.

Jared Smith - WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) and the
National Center on Disability and Access to Education

Jared Smith, M.S., is Director of Education Initiatives for
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) and the Technology
Coordinator for the National Center on Disability and Access
to Education, both of which are projects at the Center for
Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University. He is an
instructional designer, Web developer, and accessibility
trainer and specializes in training Web developers, IT
professionals, and educators in Web accessibility principles
and techniques. He has developed accessible course content,
Web multimedia, distance education tools, and
database-driven Web sites. Besides providing accessibility
training as part of the WebAIM team, he also teaches courses
in Macromedia Flash and multimedia development in the
Instructional Technology Dept. at Utah State University. He
has written a broad range of documents, tutorials, articles,
and other materials, many of which are featured on the
WebAIM site  ww.webaim.org).


The discussion will be moderated by Cyndi Rowland of the
National Center on Disability and Access to Education

Tune In 
To tune in to the audio broadcast, please select from the
following options. In order to view captions, you will need
the Macromedia Flash Player installed. You will be able to
connect to the audio and text feeds beginning about 10
minutes before the broadcast begins.

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