Web Accessibility
Course Overview
This course is a hands-on introduction to Accessibility on the Web as part of an organisation's web policy
Web Accessibility allows your website to reach out to a larger target audience, and is the process of making your website available to all visitors.
Course Outline
- Accessibility introduction and benefits
- Legislation and Guidelines - DDA, WAI and WCAG
- Conformance levels - Level A, AA and AAA
- Screen reader and assistive technologies
- Problems with accessibility on sites
- Test and evaluating your website for accessibility
- Designing an Accessible Web site
- Creating usable and accessible content
- Page and HTML structure and navigation
- Deprecated HTML tags
- Working with colour, images and multimedia
- Accessible tables and the header element
- Accessible links, tab structures and access keys
- Table Tag Vs DIVs
- Working with effective lists
- Creating accessible forms
- Using styles sheets in an accessibility friendly way
- Validating your Website
- Working with conformance levels and logos
Course Prerequisites
This course is aimed at web developers who wish to focus on making their sites conform with accessibility compliance.
Also useful for web project managers who wish to gain understanding in what is involved in web accessible sites.