1 day - private courses from £595 + vat

This one day instructor-led Web Accessibility training course provides a practical introduction to Accessibility and Usability for websites, equipping participants with the skills and knowledge required to ensure conformance with the legal requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act - DDA.

Web Accessibility Training Course Objectives

By the end of the Accessibility course, delegates will have:

• an overall understanding of accessibility and usability issues
• an understanding of the legal requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act - DDA
• learnt HTML code techniques to make sites accessible
• learnt about page layout issues relating to accessibility
• used online HTML and CSS validators to check code and style sheets; done a Bobby accessibility test; and have an understanding of common validator and Bobby error messages;
• an understanding of Accessibility Levels 1, 2 and 3, and what these mean
• gained knowledge of how to conduct usability tests

Web Accessibility Training Course Content

Introduction to Accessibility and Usability

• What do accessibility and usability mean?

Legal requirements for your site

• The Disability Discrimination Act - DDA

Making your HTML code accessible

• Which document declaration should I use?
• Which character set should I use?
• Deprecated HTML
• Tables vs DIVS
• Page flow - turning off the style sheets and tables
• Using liquid layouts
• How does XHTML differ from HTML?
• Browser compatibility in the accessibility context

Validating your site

• Document declarations
• Validation Tools
• Validating your HTML
• Validating your CSS

Taking the Bobby test

• Bobby error messages and what they mean
• Bobby user checks
• Which level of accessibility should I aim for?

Making your site usable

• Common usability problems
• How to conduct usability tests

What Next?

• Keeping your information up-to-date
• Useful
• Tips

Web Accessibility Course Prerequisites

• This Web Accessibility training course assumes familiarity with HTML coding and is most useful for people who currently have a web site they maintain.
• Participants are welcome to bring their website on CD to work on during the course.

Web Accessibility Training Recommended Reading

Maximum Accessibility - Jakob Nielsen (Foreword), John Slatin, Sharron Rush – buy from amazon
Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities - Michael Paciello – buy from amazon

Download course outline as pdf.

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