Conforming to accessibility

Overview

In the UK legislation ensures organisations make their web sites accessible to everyone regardless of their ability or technology, and similar laws exists across Europe and the US. An accessible web site ensures increased visitors, compatibility with emerging technology and greater usability.

This course will give anyone involved in commissioning or designing web sites a comprehensive insight into accessibility and the WAI (W3C) Guidelines. People with a hands on design and development role, could also consider the “Building Accessible Web sites hands on” course.

The course is available on both Mac and PC systems.

Required skills and experience.

Some experience of using web sites.
The ability to use at least one mainstream web browser.
Some understanding of basic web page building.

Duration

1 Day.

Standard course price

£275 pp excluding VAT

For more information on pricing please go to my rates page.

Course modules

Background to accessibility

About the W3C
About Webaim
Development of WAI guidelines
Why be accessible anyway?
Overview of the current legal perspective

Who has access issues?

Identifying key disability groups
Understanding the challenges disabled users face online
Overview of technologies used by people with disabilities

Understanding the WAI guidelines

How the guidelines are structured
Rationale for dividing guidelines into degrees of priority
Review of priority one guidelines
Review of priority two guidelines
Review of priority three guidelines

Compatibility and web design

Using semantic mark up and style sheets
Navigation design issues
Careful use of colour
Problems with scripts and other dynamic content
Working with images, ALT and LONGDESC tags
Using tables for layout (or not)
Using frames and applets
Accessible Flash
Issues with web forms

Developing an action plan

Auditing your site
Text only browsers and a view of your site
About bobby and other access checking tools
Reading the results of a bobby and wave test
The W3C accessibility checklist
Identifying the right level of accessibility