Webcast Announcement

Quick and Easy Accessibility for Section 508?
Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 2:00 p.m. (ET)

Presenter - Dr. Gregg C. Vanderheiden, Director, Trace Research &
Development Center

Host - Rex Lint, Consultant Specializing in IT technology
Accessibility & Chairman of ITAA’s Section 508 Task Group

ITAA Contact - Sarah Crumley, scrumley@itaa.org
Register: http://www.itaa.org/events/register.cfm?EventID=302

ITAA's Section 508 Task Group and the Information Technology Technical
Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC) are pleased to present a free series
of webcasts that will explore perspectives and issues surrounding Section
508. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act strives to ensure that people with
disabilities (federal employees as well as members of the public) have the
same or comparable access to federal government information and services.
More information about ITTATC and Section 508 are available at
http://www.ittatc.org. 

In the first webcast of the series, Rex Lint, an IT accessibility consultant
and Chairman of ITAA’s Section 508 Task Group, will interview Dr. Gregg C.
Vanderheiden, Director of the Trace Research & Development Center. Dr.
Vanderheiden will discuss easy-to-make changes to IT that will make your
products easier to use for people with disabilities, and may expand the
market for your products by making them easier to use for a large segment of
the population. 

About Dr. Vanderheiden and the Trace Center: Dr. Gregg C. Vanderheiden,
Ph.D., is Director of the Trace Research & Development Center, which is part
of the College of Engineering of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Dr.
Vanderheiden was a member of the Electronic and Information Technology
Accessibility Advisory Committee that drew up recommendations for the Access
Board which published the E&IT Accessibility Standards. He is a renown
speaker on accessibility of IT, and has consulted and written extensively on
accessibility of IT. 

The Trace Center works on accessibility interfaces for computers, kiosks,
personal digital assistants, and other electronic devices that could be
easily operated by everyone. The center also has a focus on accessibility of
telecommunications products. You may visit the Trace Center website at
http://trace.wisc.edu.