Web Accessibilty:Interview with Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

For today’s podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Accessibility at the College of Applied Health Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Dr. Gunderson is a long standing member of the WOW organization and teaches the popular online Web Accessibility Web Forms Course for Web professionals. I caught up with Dr. Gunderson at the Illinois Accessibility Conference he was hosting on the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Keynoting the event was Victor Trasan, Accessibility Engineer Yahoo and the topics of the conference ranged from:

* Captioning Video Content Screen Reader and Disability Simulation Demonstration
* Web Accessibility and Usability Go Hand In Hand
* Adobe PDF Accessibility using Acrobat and Common Look
* Screen Reader and Disability Simulation Demonstration
* Adobe Flash Accessibility

Check out the three minute podcast on today’s Web Professional Minute website.

A full transcript will follow in twenty for hours.

Today’s Web Professional Minute is sponsored by WebProTraining.org. WOW is pleased to announce the availabilty of the Creating Accessible Web Forms Course. Creating web forms that are accessible to people with disabilities requires understanding of the labeling features of HTML markup and how browsers interpret labeling markup for assistive technologies like screen readers. The online course is being taught by Dr. Gunderson University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. The course also provides great value and is highly reccomended by Web professionals worldwide.

WOW members will receive a discounted rate of $150.00. Check out all of the details on the Web Pro Training website and register today!

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