Self-Paced Trainings

WordPress: Accessibility

Course description: If you build a website with WordPress, build it with accessibility in mind. Making your content, themes, navigation, and other site features accessible helps everyone - including visitors who want to find your site through search engine results. This course, merging WordPress coding with accessible web design techniques, helps you make sure your website meets modern accessibility standards. You'll learn how to use the power of WordPress to quickly build a beautiful and accessible website that can be used by people with different types of abilities. Author Joe Dolson provides a broad introduction to accessibility and then focuses on practical steps to make sure your WordPress themes, plugins, and content are accessible and usable to all.

Audience: Designers and Developers.

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Creating Accessible Documents in Microsoft Office

Course description: This course shows how to make accessible Office documents in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Accessibility expert Glenna Shaw begins by describing what it's like for those with visual, hearing, or movement impairments to experience regular Word and Excel files and PowerPoint presentations. Glenna goes through the essential steps of creating documents that are accessible to all - those using assistive technology and those not - including applying useful headings, formatting tables for ease of use, naming sheet tabs in Excel, using slide layouts and following z-order in PowerPoint, and adding captioning to presentations. 

Audience: Anyone.

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Accessibility for Web Design

Course description: Are you doing everything you can to make sure your sites are accessible and easy to use? Learn practical accessibility techniques to ensure your web designs can be viewed and used by everyone. Internationally recognized accessibility expert Derek Featherstone walks through examples of common web interaction flows, and then steps through considerations and tactical strategies for each component, to assure that people with disabilities can easily complete those tasks. Learn the proper use of color, contrast, and motion, and find out how to design keyboard interactions and touch interfaces; incorporate images, sound, and video; design accessible forms; structure content at the tag level; and balance responsive design with accessibility.

Audience: UX / UI Designers, Interaction Designers, Web Designers.

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Introduction to Digital Accessibility

Course description: It is essential in a global economy and worldwide community to provide equal access to digital content. This course provides an overview of accessibility and how it applies to removing barriers to Information and Communications Technology (ICT). You will learn what accessibility is, different types of disabilities, business drivers for accessibility, and various accessibility standards and regulations.

Audience: Anyone.

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Introduction to ARIA

Course description: This course focuses on how to use Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) to provide information to assistive technologies about custom controls and dynamic content. It is most appropriate for Web Developers.

Audience: Designers, Developers, Testers, QA Analysts and Specialists.

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