Accessibility Training

Through the day you'll learn how to champion the cause, identify compliance issues and easily build sites that are easy for anyone to use. What web accessibility means to those with disabilities, who it affects and how, as a business, you can meet compliance regulations. Understanding the problems will help you to identify solutions and give you the necessary know-how to build sites everybody can access and use.

A practical introduction of web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) will outline the issues, simplify the jargon and examine, in detail, the practicalities of creating accessible sites, dispelling commonly held myths along the way. The course will also provide you with a range of simple tools and techniques such as Accessible Information Solutions (AIS), a tool bar for testing for accessibility compliance within your business, and introduce future trends such as accessible PDFs, Flash and cross platform (TV and mobile) compliance.

Topics:

• Accessibility standards explained
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 / 2.0
• Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 78
• Main disability types
• Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Guidelines

Legal standing

• Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)

Introduction to accessibility

• What does it mean?
• Who's affected?
• Assistive technology demonstration (Jaws, Lynx and ZoomText)
• Video presentations

Creating accessible sites

• Dispelling common myths
• Easy work-arounds
• Writing for the web
• Basic best practice compliance

Practical examples

• Walkthrough of WCAG 1.0 Level 1 (A) and Level 2 (AA) checkpoints

Practical introduction to WCAG

• Overview of simplified standards
• Participatory site inspection

Testing for accessibility compliance

• Simple tools and techniques available to everyone
• Demonstration of Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) tool bar
• Automated testing vs Manual testing
• User testing

Future trends

• Cross platform compliance (TV and mobile)
• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
• WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications)
• Accessible PDFs
• Accessible Flash
• Video presentation

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