Adobe User Group Meeting

Presenter: Hiram Kuykendall

COST: Free

Location: Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center at 4800 North Lamar

It has long been the dream of instructional designers to have a viable option for converting textual content into audio narration. In response to this, Adobe has directly incorporated an easy to use text-to-speech tool that will at long last create audio narration from textual slide notes. But how lifelike are the voices? Can you alter pronunciation? How about captioning for people who are deaf? To answer some of these questions, please join us for a discussion and demonstration on Captivate 4 Text-to-Speech.

For more information see: http://ammug.nhive.com/meetinginfo.htm 

Presenters: Hiram Kuykendall and Jillian McCarthy

Creating engaging E-Learning is tough. Many of us spend hours contemplating issues such as cognitive load, brain based learning and other lofty instructional design strategies. Go cognitive accessibility! HOWEVER, when it comes to creating the Elearning materials the designer is given almost no instruction on technical construction, how to test for accessibility or what to do when (not if) they have material that simply cannot be made accessible.

In this course we will use one of the most popular Elearning creation tools, Lectora, to perform the following:

1. How to Recognize Inaccessible Elearning
2. Construction of an Accessible Template using Industry Standard Tools
3. Construction of Accessible Content using Industry Standard Tools
4. Strategies for Handling Inaccessible Materials

More Information: http://www.knowbility.org/conference/