Web Accessibility Training Course WCAG 2.1 & 2.2 Compliance

Learn to design accessible websites - from multi-award winning web designer Jim Byrne

Created by: Jim Byrne
Accessible Website Design Specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Beginners & intermediate level course from award-winning accessible website designer Jim Byrne. Learn the techniques you need to create accessible websites.
• Learn from disabled people themselves as they chat to Jim about the most irritating access issues they come across - and demonstrate how they use the web.
• You will learn an entire framework for thinking about accessibility. This will help you understand and solve any access issues you come across.
• There are lots of course bonuses to download; 111-page website accessibility e-book, the audio from the course, all the slides, and much more.
• Learn how people with different impairments access the web, i.e. deaf & hearing impairment, blind & visually impaired, physical impairments, and people with lea
• You will learn techniques for making non-text content accessible. i.e. images, videos, how to ensure your links, tables and are accessible and so on.
• You will get access to real examples of screen reader use, and an example of captions being added to a video.
• You will learn how HTML documents are structured and how that structure is fundamental to ensuring websites are accessible.
• You will learn about the medical and social models of disability and why they are relevant to accessible website design.
• You will learn the basics of ARIA is and how it is used to make dynamic content accessible.
• You will learn about the history and development of the WCAG 2.1 guidelines; what the levels mean (A, AA, AAA compliance) and the concepts that the latest versi
• You will learn the tools and techniques disabled people use and what that means in terms of ensuring websites are accessible.

Requirements

• Students need to have access to a computer and the internet and an interest in accessible website design.
• It will help if you know the basics of how websites are designed/built.

Target audience

• Beginner website designers & developers. Experienced website developers will also learn a lot from this course.