What are the benefits of attending this course?Making your
website accessible to all, regardless of technical limitations or
disability has become a major issue for web designers. Websites designed
without taking accessibility into consideration exclude certain sectors of
the population, limit your customer base and may ultimately be illegal.
The Disability Discrimination Act applies to internet content as much as
to other media.
As such it is now important for companies to be aware
that they should be complying with guidelines. Upon completing this course
you will have gained an important insight into the realistic workings of
Accessibility. This will inspire you to evaluate our own systems and bring
them in line.
Our course shows you the added company benefits that will
improve your website and its features.
Upon completing this course you
will have gleaned an important insight into the realistic workings of
Accessibility. This will inspire you to evaluate our own systems and bring
them in line. Follow up courses are available on a oneto-one basis
focusing on specific issues.
Course OutlineBackground to
Accessibility
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About the W3C
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About Webaim
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Development of WAI guidelines
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Why be accessible anyway?
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Overview of the current legal perspective
Who has access issues?
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Identifying key disability groups
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Understanding the challenges disabled users face online
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Overview of technologies used by people with disabilities
Understanding the WAI guidelines
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How the guidelines are structured
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Rationale for dividing guidelines into degrees of priority
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Review of priority one guidelines
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Review of priority two guidelines
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Review of priority three guidelines
Compatability and web design
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Using semantic mark up and style sheets
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Navigation design issues
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Careful use of colour
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Problems with scripts and other dynamic content
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Working with images, ALT and LONGDESC tags
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Using tables for layout (or not)
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Using frames and applets
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Accessible Flash
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Issues with web forms
Developing an action plan
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Auditing your site
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Text only browsers and a view of your site
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About bobby and other access checking tools
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Reading the results of a bobby and wave test
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The W3C accessibility checklist
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Identifying the right level of accessibility
Questions and answers