Subject: Minutes, Meeting of CfDC,
In attendance: Anne Chi,
Steve Sarrica (ITCS Computing Sites),
Novodoff,
Doug White, Barb Chaffer
Authier, Mike Elledge Jack Bernard, Anna Ercoli
Schnitzer (minutes).
Jack welcomed the
members and introductions were performed.
Jack highlighted
the Investing in Ability events, emphasizing that
they would be interesting and
that we should attend as many as we could and bring
a friend along.
Posters were distributed
and an announcement was made that Carole needs help in
stuffing envelopes with posters,
so if you have a spare hour, please contact
her (cfd@bf.umich.edu).
Jack discussed
accessibility of UM web sites, mentioning that the UM Gateway
acknowledges the disability site,
which is www3c conforming, and he stated that
the executive officers, the academic units, the
admissions web pages, and other
most often visited sites should be accessible, as
well as course tools and
Mirlyn.
Please send Mike Elledge
any other high priority sites that should offer easy
accessibility (melledge@umich.edu).
It was mentioned that
the new Mirlyn is not very user-friendly and that the AATA
site is not very accessible, either.
Mike will be offering IA
classes in web accessibility.
The ATCS site will be
open and CfDC members are urged to bring someone new to
the ATCS site.
The film "Liebe
Perla" will be shown at the Michigan Theatre on Thursday, Oct
28th, and Sarah is
working on publicizing this wonderful film, whose
documentarian will also be present at
the showing; in addition, there will be
two panel members.
There will be a career
workshop for students with disabilities also on Thursday.
On Friday, the 29th, the
Neubacher Award Ceremony will be held, and CfDC members
are strongly urged to attend (and bring a
friend). Brian Clapham will be
invited.
We will try to place a
piece in the "Michigan Daily" about the student-run
theatre group "Talk to
Us" (not CRLT).
Dance
Sign interpreters will
be available for the film and for the ceremony and by
request for other events.
Jack said that UMinDS
will be getting 2 rooms of office space in Angell Hall
(?).
Jack is taking an online
course in mental disability law, and his CD's/text of
the course will be available to anybody
interested--after he has completed the
course.
Mike Elledge provided a
presentation on a JAWS screen reader using the CfDC site
(3/4 of all screen
readers are JAWS).
Contact Carole (cfd@umich.edu) if you can help
contact colleagues of winners of
Certificates of Appreciation. (Anna and
Jack stated that he was
disappointed that disability had not been mentioned in
the political debates (except for topics on health
care and AIDS).
from AATA to come speak to us about the new free
ride on city busses and to
answer any questions we might have about this
issue. AATA will be adding new
routes in response to the increased UM ridership
(busses 3,4,5,6). The A-RIDE
GUIDE will have an
audiotaped version. Parking structures
are being freed up a
little, Park & Ride lots are filling up, and extra
busses are being added during
prime commute times.
and show your M-card.