Accessible Web Design In Practice

This course is suitable for:

Beginners and experienced web developers. Both will get a lot out of this course.

It is suitable for people who work in the public sector or private sector, e.g., Local councils, education, the voluntary sector organisations, charities and corporates. If you would like to create standards-compliant accessible web pages this is the course for you.

About the accessible website design training course

The course delivers both the required background understanding and practical techniques required to create an accessible website.

The training is aimed at helping publishers manage their web content in a more accessible, efficient and flexible manner. Accessible web design is about more than learning individual techniques, although you learn the techniques as well. Accessible web design is about understanding how to manage and publish web content in the most flexible way – cutting down the work web publishers have to do to reach their widest possible audience.

The practical hands-on aspects of the course are ‘topic’ based, for example,

• Making pages accessible for people with particular impairments.
• The legislative framework. Equality Act 2010 and website accessibility
• Introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, i.e., WCAG 2.
• Accessible Web Scripting and issues with ‘Web 2’ applications.
• How to make photographs and illustrations accessible.
• How to make videos and multimedia presentations accessible
• How to make data tables accessible.
• How to make the links within your pages accessible.
• Colour and contrast issues.
• How do you make your PDFs accessible.
• How to make your forms accessible.

The topics covered will depend on your requirements and the time you have available.

The course is taught in a very ‘interactive’ manner – questions and discussion are integrated into the course – with frequent reviews of what has been learned to facilitate understanding and recall.

Resources to take away with you

In addition to the training itself, all course participants will take away all of the course material, extensive notes and a resource list for further study. A 96-page training manual is provided which contains detailed information relating to all of the topics covered in the course and also topics that are not included due to time constraints.

Training can be tailored to your specific needs and delivered in-house.

Contact us today to talk to us about accessible website design training.

Feedback from my Accessible Web Design in practice training course,

“I found the course content extremely well structured and presented. The course also highlighted the need to incorporate ‘accessible web design’ as good practice.” Liam, One Plus

“Gave me a solid foundation from which to go on and develop further knowledge and skills – very empowering! Taught you all you needed to know about how to produce a basic accessible site and put it online. ” Linda, Enable Scotland