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From: Hadi Bargi Rangin
Date: Jun 6, 2006 1:50PM

To anyone interested in accessibility of Blackboard Course Management Tool

We would like to start the Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group
that will be focusing and resolving accessibility issues with
Blackboard in a kind of collaborative way with other colleges and the
Blackboard/WebCT company.

About 1.5 years ago we established a similar interest group with
other universities and worked together with WebCT (before
WebCT/Blackboard merge) and achieved very positive results so that
accessibility is now part of their design and QA process. We believe
we can achieve similar result if we work together. To start the
Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group I would like to ask anyone
who is interested in working together on this project to join us at
our first teleconference in this regard. Call-in information follows.
Please drop me a note and let me know if you are planning to
participate. I need to know how many people are joining us on this
teleconference to order enough call-in telephone ports. Please send
your note to
<EMAIL REMOVED>
and not to the list.

Info about the first Blackboard Accessibility teleconference:

Date: Tuesday June 13 2006
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT (Chicago Local Time)
Phone: 217 244-7532

Thanks and sorry for cross-postings.

Hadi

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Hadi Bargi Rangin
Web Design and Accessibility Specialist
Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820
Voice: (217) 244-0518
Fax: (217) 333-0248
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
WWW: http://disability.uiuc.edu