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<div>Some of you may be interested in these IAP sessions on
usability.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Robyn</div>
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might be interested.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Join the Usability Team for the following
IAP events starting on Wednesday, January 5 at 1:30 in
3-133.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">"Why
Usability?" is a four-week series of presentations addressing the
issue of why (or why not) making things usable and accessible is
important in our work lives, our everyday lives, and our political
lives.</font></blockquote>
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<b>User Interface and Elections - Examples from the 2004
Election</b><br>
<i>Prof. Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab Co-Director CalTech/MIT Voting
Technology Project</i><br>
Join us for a lively discussion of how user interface technology
played a part in the recent Presidential election. Topics include
detecting fraud, ensuring security, reliability, and integrity, and
problems of the disenfranchised.<br>
Wed Jan 5, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133<br>
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<b>Web Accessibility for All</b><br>
<i>Stephanie Norton and Rich Caloggero, ATIC Lab<br>
</i> Learn to make Web sites more accessible to people with
disabilities, more usable overall and more usable by older people.
We'll discuss operating system accessibility tools, assistive
technologies, and common problems of older web users. Learn how well
your site works with a screen reader. Please, bring questions.<br>
Wed Jan 12, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133<br>
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<b>Hard to Use Technology for the Aging and the Rest of Us</b><br>
<i>Joe Coughlin, Director, Age Lab/Director New England UTC</i><br>
Wed Jan 19, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133, 3-133<br>
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<b>Don't Make Me Think</b><br>
<i>Steve Krug Author of "Don't Make Me
Think"</i></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Wed Jan 26,
01:30-03:00pm, 3-133</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Susan B. Jones</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Senior Usability Consultant<br>
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Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
N42-240L<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139 -4307<br>
617-253-0877</blockquote>
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Robyn Fizz<br>
News Coordinator<br>
MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)<br>
N42-290B<br>
Phone: 617 253-0540<br>
Fax: 617 258-6875</div>
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