ATHEN Access Technologists Higher Education Network

The ATHEN e-Journal invites submissions for its upcoming edition on the topic of "Who We Are as a Profession". Professionals in higher education whose work relates to information technology accessibility, assistive technology, disability services, alternate format production, or related fields are welcome to submit papers to be considered for publication.

Questions or submissions may be directed to:

University of Washington

Papers should be submitted electronically. All images representing content should include a text description. Preferred formats include:

• MSWord
• WordPerfect
• OpenOffice
• Rich Text Format (RTF)

Submission deadline: May 31, 2008

The following are ATHEN presentations at the 2008 CSUN Conference. For more information and session summaries, please visit the CSUN conference website.

Thursday, March 13

Stabilizing the Concepts of Digital and Access within Research and Education, 10:40 - 11:40 AM, Marriott - Houston
Daniel Berkowitz - DigiLife Media, LLC

Accessible Podcasting, 4:20 - 5:20PM, Marriott - Denver
Jayme Johnson - High Tech Center Training Unit, California Community Colleges

Making Podcasts and Vodcasts Accessible, 4:20 - 5:20 PM, Marriott - Scottsdale
Norman Coombs - EASI, Richard Banks - EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information, Elizabeth Coombs - EASI

Friday, March 14

DO-IT Video Search: A Case Study in Accessible Multimedia, 4:20 - 5:20 PM, Marriott - Houston
Terry Thompson - DO-IT, University of Washington

Saturday, March 15

Multi-Institutional Consortiums to Improve the Accessibility of Electronic Library Resources, 8:00 - 9:00 AM, Marriott - Washington
Jon Gunderson - UIUC, Hadi Rangin - University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Khalilah Gambrell - EBSCO Publishing, Mike Dicus - Ex Libris Group.

Deconstructing the Magic of the Harry Potter Web Site, 8:00 - 9:00AM, Marriott - New York

ATHEN E-Journal Issue #3 (2007)

Overview of the State of Assistive Technology Support for Students with Disabilities in the United Kingdom
A Publication of: ATHEN - Access Technologists Higher Education Network

Meeting at conferences throughout the year, ATHEN strives to educate the higher educational community as to the appropriate uses of access technology. Members of ATHEN are also involved in various areas including Web accessibility and Alternate Media.

ATHEN Meetings

ATHEN Meeting at CSUN 2008

The ATHEN meeting will be held on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30PM at Conference Room 1 in the Courtyard by Marriott LAX Hotel. The Courtyard by Marriott is located at 6161 W Century Blvd. (Location B on the Google Map - http://tinyurl.com/ytjktl). The Courtyard by Marriott is approximately a half-mile from the main CSUN conference hotel.

This is the same location where Dolphin Computer Access is holding their demonstrations and trainings. Dolphin has been kind enough to offer ATHEN this space AND Dolphin is providing light refeshments
(munchies) for the meeting to hold us all over until we can go out to dinner afterwards.

ATHEN meeting minutes from the CSUN Conference will be posted on the ATHEN site (under the About Athen section).