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.