Design for every user
Your websites and digital products should work for all users, regardless of ability, for ethical, legal and business reasons. There are millions of people in the UK with some form of disability, with a combined spending power of £billions.
Our hands-on web accessibility training is fantastic - small class sizes, highly interactive and taught by experts. It will teach you how to make your digital services work as well for disabled users as they do for fully abled users.
You'll finish the day with a great understanding of:
- How disabled people use computers
You'll learn about the various types of disabilities that affect web and computer use, the challenges that they fact and the types of software and hardware people use - What the law says about digital access
Understand how the law on disability affects your organisation, and how to make sure that you provide an inclusive experience for your visitors - How to create inclusive digital content
Images, video, tables and interactive content - we'll show you how to make all your digital content more inclusive! - How to use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
They're really overwhelming, but once you get confident and comfortable with using WCAG they can become an indispensable tool for you - How to check your content
Once we've worked through the basics, we'll show you how to apply what you've learned through some hands-on testing
What you'll need to bring:
- A laptop and charger, for taking notes and trying things out
- If you're bringing a Windows machine, then we recommend installing the free-to-use NVDA screen reader
- If you're bringing a Mac, we'll be using the built in VoiceOver feature
- For the testing element we'll be demonstrating some plugins for Chrome, so also download Wave extension and Contrast Radio Checker
Oct
29
£495 +VAT
What will you learn?
Morning
- Different types of disabled user groups
- Blind web users
- Visually impaired web users
- Mobility impaired web users
- Deaf and hard of hearing web users
- Users with reading difficulties
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and how to use them
Afternoon
- Implementing accessibility
- Form accessibility
- Accessibility of tables
- Use of colour
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
- Video and audio accessibility
- Testing for accessibility
- Automated testing tools
- Testing with the Web Accessibility Toolbar
- Accessibility action plan
Bespoke training tailored to your needs
Like what you see but want to learn something slightly different? Have us train your teams with fully customised training programmes.
Meet Grant Broome, your trainer
Grant has been specialising in web accessibility for over a decade, consulting with a variety of organisations on how to make their online content accessible to people with disabilities.
He's audited hundreds of websites and provided many training courses to various European government teams and companies like Virgin and Legal & General. He has also spoken at events for the British Computer Society, Headstar and at the Bett Show.
His approach makes accessibility as simple and understandable as possible, and his passion for inclusion, draws people in to a subject that can seem complex from the start.
Some of our thoughts on web accessibility...
Who is our training for?
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Individuals who want to learn in interactive classroom sessions
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Teams to have bespoke training tailored to your needs
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Organisations can be transformed by our bespoke 'Cultivate' service
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Webcredible alumni that you'll join, not forgetting continued support from your trainers
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Our training academy can help you do the same.
