NRCCES@RITVAX.BITNET (Norman Coombs) (05/28/91)
Index Number: 15818
Announcing EASI Electronic Document Service
Equal access to Software for Instruction, EASI, is a project
of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology, (EUIT),
Program. EASI is devoted to encouraging and stimulating
educational institutions and computer and software providers
with the challenge of reducing barriers to
information technology for persons with a wide variety of
disabilities. One of the methods EASI is using to reach this
goal is by providing online help for students with disabilities
and for institutions wanting to know more about how to improve
computer access to such students. At present, May 1991, EASI has
begun this online venture by having several helpful documents
available in electronic format. These can easily be retrieved
from bitnet or internet by following the instructions below.
Here is a list of documents presently accessible:
(Documents produced by EASI personnel and about EASI activities)
README - an introduction to the EASI ftp library
2940 bytes
EASI.SIGNUP - Flier introducing EASI and providing a form to use
for signing up with EASI and one of its interest activities.
4732 bytes
EASIBROCHURE - Computers and Students with Disabilities: New
Challenges for Higher Education, Developed by
Project EASI, (Equal Access to Software for Instruction), A
Project of the EDUCOM Educational Uses of Information Technology,
(EUIT), Program. This brochure is EASI's major publication.
63719 bytes
EASI.HISTORY - Paper delivered at the CSUN Conference in 1991
provides good overview of EASI and its development.
12878 bytes
PHONE.BULLTN - Flier providing brief answers to standard
questions about EASI: "What it is and what it does." Useful for
EASI members to use in responding to concerns of interested
people.
8820 bYtes
LIBRARYLIST - List of available EASI on-line documents
1611 bytes
MEMBERLIST - List of EASI members
18391 bytes
(Information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and
related legal matters.)
ADA.FACTS.1 - Department of Justice Fact Sheet #1
Index Number: 11112
This is the first of two fact sheets on ADA, the Americans with
Disabilities Act, that are distributed by the Department of
Justice.
9877 bytes
ADA.FACTS.2 - Department of Justice Fact Sheet #2
Index Number: 11113
This is the second of two fact sheets on ADA that are being
distributed by the Department of Justice.
8703 bytes
ADA.TEXT - The Americans With Disabilities Act
PUBLIC LAW 101-336 JULY 26, 1990 104 STAT. 327 An
Act: To establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of
discrimination on the basis of disability.
Short Title. This Act may be cited as the "Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990".
152218 bytes
(The next 5 documents are the ADA law split into sections for
easier handling.)
ADA-TITL.CON - Table of Contents for all TITLE files
8615 bytes
ADA-TITL.I - Employment
20658 bytes
ADA-TITL.II - Public Services Act
49565 bytes
ADA-TITL.III - Public Accommodations and Services
55919 bytes
ADA-TITL.IV - Telecommunications Act
10606 bytes
ADA-TITL.V - Miscellaneous Provisions
26015 bytes
(Other documents related to EASI activities and concerns.)
ACCESS.LIB - "Electronic Access to Library Systems For Users
with Physical Disabilities" - Norman Coombs
Public-Access Computer Systems Review 1, no. 1 (1990)
9272 bytes
COMPU.ACCESS - "Considerations in the Design of Computers to
Increase Their Accessibility by Persons with
Disabilities" Industry/Government Computer Accessibility Task
Force Trace Center, Madison, WI.
75113 bytes
How to obtain any of these electronic documents:
Internet and bitnet users will follow different directions.
The internet directions use ftp, (file transfer protocol), which
sounds complicated, but the instructions are rather simple.
(Bitnet directions will be after the internet explanation.)
Here are the ftp instructions. At your system prompt,
enter: ftp UM.CC.UMICH.EDU or
ftp 35.1.1.43 and when you receive the Name prompt,
(you may have to issue the command, 'user' or 'login', first)
enter: anonymous and When you receive the password prompt,
enter your Internet address. At this point you want to access
the EASI subdirrectory, so give the command 'cd easi'. To see a
list of the existing materials, type 'ls'. The document
librarylist will contain a listing of documents with a brief
description. To retrieve that document, for example, type 'get
librarylist' and then you'll need to provide your own file name
for your system. When you are finished, type 'quit'.
Users with access only to BITNET should send a mail message
to BITFTP@PUCC with HELP at the first and only line of the
message. The response will give you instructions on using the
Princeton BITFTP server, which provides a mail interface to the
FTP portion of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Here is a sample of the commands you would send in mail to
get the document, librarylist, as was described above for
internet users:
Send mail via bitnet to: bitftp@pucc and included the following
lines as the text of that message:
ftp UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
USER anonymous
cd easi
get librarylist
quit
Later, you would receive mail from the Princeton interface
containing the document librarylist which you had requested.
EASI intends to expand the available electronic documents
and to develop other online services. If you are interested in
seeing other information posted here, or would like to find out
more about the EASI Online Resources Work Group, contact:
EASI Online working Group Coordinator:
Norman Coombs, MailName=NRCGSH@RITVAX
Business phone: (716) 475-2462
Business address: Rochester Institute of Technology
One Lomb Memorial Drive
P.O. Box 9887
Rochester, NY 14623-0087
Easi FTP Librarian:
Ray Farha, Ray_Farha@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
Business phone: (313) 936-1808
Business address: Institute for Social Research
Room 4245
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mi 48106
EASI Membership Coordinator:
Jim Knox, MailName=Jim_Knox@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
Business phone: (313) 998-7634, 936-1614, Fax 998-7718
Business address: University of Michigan
Information Technology Division
611 Church Street, 2nd Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3056
If you would like to find out more about Project EASI, or
get involved in EASI activities, contact:
Project EASI Chair
Danny Hilton-Chalfen, MailName=CSMIDHC@OAC.UCLA.EDU
Business phone: (213) 206-4839 (Fax 213-206-1700)
Business address: UCLA Office of Academic Computing
5628 MSA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1557
Project Editor:
Carmela Castorina, MailName=CSMICLC@OAC.UCLA.EDU
Business phone: (213) 206-4839 (Fax 213-206-1700)
Business address: UCLA
5628 MSA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1557
This announcement may be copied and/or distributed.