Practical Accessibility: for Managers, Content Providers, And Designers

Course review:

This course is also suitable for designers and content providers who are responsible for template design and contents. It is not code heavy or technical (therefore no specific coding experience necessary) but does introduce key concepts and best practices that would be useful to developers.

This course covers all of the basics from how, why and when testing should be used through to executing a test and acting on the results.

It's fun, it's interactive, you will meet interesting people to exchange ideas and experiences with.

A major element of the day is practical:

• you will be introduced to a screen reader user who will demonstrate how they use this adaptive technology, and will walk through several sites (including yours if you wish)
• you will practice by analysing several sites/pages for basic accessibility

What you will learn Some of the topics covered:

• The need for and benefits of accessibility
• The people affected by accessibility
• Adaptive technologies used by people with disabilities
• Introduction to accessibility guidelines and standards (including WCAG 2.0)
• The legal position for accessibility and how to make sure you do not run foul of the law
• The business case for accessibility
• How to assess and test for basic accessibility
• Producing accessible content
• Producing accessible templates
• Producing accessible components

Learning objectives

After completing the training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the legal position of accessibility
• Produce a business case for accessibility
• Be able to specify the required level of accessibility for their site/pages with confidence
• Test a site to check if it meets basic accessibility requirements
• Produce contents that are accessible
• Have an understanding of the requirements for producing an accessible site
• Reference additional resources to deepen their understanding of accessibility