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GENERAL MEETINGS
Webnet general meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday, every other month, beginning at noon. Contact webnet@berkeley.edu for information. Please note that meeting dates are subject to change, so please check this page for updates.

Date: Tuesday, 06 May
Time: noon - 1:30 PM
Place: Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE)
Topic: PDF accessibility and useability issues
Presented by: Sean Keegan, Web Accessibility Instructor and Training Specialist, High Tech Center Training Unit for the California Community Colleges (http://www.htctu.net/); and the campus WebAccess Group.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) may be one of the most popular formats for posting documents to the Web, but it can also present a variety of barriers to access for people using screen-reading technologies. In this presentation, Sean Keegan, a premier expert on document and web accessibility, will address usability and accessibility issues of the PDF, strategies for the creation of accessible electronic documents, and the appropriate use of software applications to ensure accessibility of web documents.

Speaker bio: Sean Keegan is the Web Accessibility Instructor at the High Tech Center Training Unit for the California Community Colleges. The High Tech Center Training Unit provides training and technical support to higher-education faculty and staff on the use of assistive computer technology for students' with disabilities. As part of this continuing mission to improve access for students with disabilities, Sean conducts workshops and trainings to faculty and staff in the area of accessible web design, web usability, captioning of web-based multimedia, and the use of assistive computer technology.

* Please note date and location change

SIG (Special Interest Groups) MEETINGS

If you are interested in forming a SIG, contact webnet@berkeley.edu about announcing it.

SIG: EDIT (Web Editors/Designers) Brownbag Lunches
The Web Editor's (WEBEDITSIG) brownbag lunch is the special interest group for UC Berkeley web editors and designers — meet other web folk over lunch and share ideas, best practices and more! We sometimes choose subjects to focus on, but we always leave time for discussion of whatever else is on our minds. If you have comments, questions, or ideas about campus websites, join us.

Our group is growing in numbers and strength as those of us involved in managing web sites grapple with issues such as home page design, designing for various browsers, keeping up with search engines, solving Dreamweaver woes, conducting usability testing and a myriad of other issues large and small (and, as we all know, it's often the smallest that seems the largest).

Date: Fall 2008 (Date TBD)
Time: noon - 1:00 PM
Place: Madrone (East) room in MLK Student Union. This room is in the ASUC Student Union in Sproul Plaza (Telegraph x Bancroft), on the 4th floor.

Bring your lunch...

Hope you can make it...