Accessibility March 10, 2010

Web accessibility for disabled users has been mandatory in the UK for several years now. Yet despite legislation introduced under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) many companies are still unsure where to start when it comes to compliance regulations.

This workshop offers a hands-on approach to accessibility compliance and inclusive design.

Who should attend?
Website designers, agency or in-house, will benefit from this course. It's also valuable to marketing managers who want to find out about the business and brand benefits of an accessibility focus, and project managers who want to ensure their web projects comply with standards and legislation.

How will I benefit?
You will gain a detailed working knowledge of the assistive devices used by disabled people to overcome web accessibility barriers, and an understanding of the accessibility compliance documents and laws. You'll be able to articulate to colleagues and managers how accessibility standards can be met, and how this will benefit your business. You'll also be able to evaluate your own website for accessibility and define how to meet accessibility standards.

What will I learn?
Through the day you'll learn how to champion the cause, identify compliance issues and easily build sites that are easy for anyone to use. What web accessibility means to those with disabilities, who it affects and how, as a business, you can meet compliance regulations. Understanding the problems will help you to identify solutions and give you the necessary know-how to build sites everybody can access and use. A practical introduction of web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) will outline the issues, simplify the jargon and examine, in detail, the practicalities of creating accessible sites, dispelling commonly held myths along the way. The course will also provide you with a range of simple tools and techniques such as Accessible Information Solutions (AIS), a tool bar for testing for accessibility compliance within your business, and introduce future trends such as accessible PDFs, Flash and cross platform (TV and mobile) compliance.