Course overview
This course will enable you to correctly design, develop and edit your websites to ensure that people of all abilities and disabilities can have equal access to information and functionality.

Who should attend
This course is designed for web designers who use authoring software such as Dreamweaver or a content management system to create websites. Some knowledge of HTML and CSS code is required.

Course contents

What is Accessibility
An overview of assistive technologies
The WAI, priority levels and compliance
Identifying the selection of user types, statistics and issues relating to web access including blind, deaf, cognitive, physical, colour blind, dyslexia and age-related conditions

Accessible HTML and CSS
Avoiding deprecated HTML
Making content accessible: content, colour, forms, searching and page layout
Tables and Div tags
Problems with scripts and dynamic content
Tools for accessibility and accessibility validators
Images and text
QuickTime, RealPlayer, Multimedia and Flash
Advantages of using style sheets
Careful use of colour
Structuring your content

Navigation issues
Context sensitive links
Intuitive and logical navigation
Tab order of links
Using forms

Assistive technologies
Overview of technologies used by people with disabilities
Identify disability types that affect the ability to use the web
Identify common accessibility problems faced by people with disabilities
Explain how the web is accessed by people of varying disability types
Disable your browser as a tool for identifying accessibility problems
Understand how a disabled browser contrasts with the experience of people with disabilities
List types of features found in common browsers which are accessibility aids
Describe how cascading style sheets can be used to enhance the accessibility of a web page

How to book
Please call us now on 020 8658 6994 or email us at admin@alphatraining.com

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