In the modern marketplace, companies can benefit greatly from providing a website that is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.  Organisations with accessible websites have a larger audience and greater revenue potential as well as demonstrating a positive approach to social responsibility.  Furthermore many countries have legal requirements to make all websites accessible to people with disabilities, and a standards-compliant, accessible website is more likely to work well across different platforms and is certainly favoured by search engines.

This practical one day course reveals the benefits of implementing web standards based, accessible web pages, and shows the impact poor site accessibility can have on disabled web users.  It provides a code level guide to common accessibility issues encountered along with detailed technical solutions on how to improve currently inaccessible pages and also ensure your new content is developed to with accessibility in mind. With reference to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) from the W3C, attendees will be shown how to implement accessible forms, tables, images, navigation and also how to implement accessible multimedia.Through hands-on workshops they will also learn how to test a site for accessibility so that solutions can be put in place on sites that are live or in development.

What will I learn?

 Morning

• What is web accessibility and what are its benefits
• Types of disability and the impact on web usage 
• Assistive technologies used by disabled users
• Common Accessibility issues and how to resolve them
• Web accessibility principles and standards explained including the techniques within WCAG 2.0
• Best practice techniques for ensuring site accessibility for  all content:
  • Images
  • Form labelling and error messages
  • Tables

Break for Lunch
 
Afternoon

• Best practice techniques for accessibility (continued)
  • Page structure
  • Navigation
  • Colour contrast
  • Scripting and Multimedia
• Practical workshop - auditing websites for accessibility issues
• Accessibility in the future – including HTML 5, accessible PDFs, AJAX, and Flash
• Web accessibility testing tools and undertaking an accessibility audit of your site using various accessibility tools

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at web developers and those in similar roles who have an  understanding of coding.  It is also valuable to web designers working with agencies or in-house who want to ensure that best practice is followed for client websites.  It will also benefit marketing managers and project managers who want to learn about the business benefits of accessibility online and want to ensure their web projects comply with standards and legislation.

User Vision also provide in-house training courses, which offers content specific to your company and sector. We will customise the course to include examples from your own company's website, as well as others in your sector to ensure the training uis highly relevant to your team.

For more information, contact chris@uservision.co.uk

Event Details

Location:Flip Media, Arjaan Al Sufouh Office 108,  Dubai Media City, P.O. Box 502372, UAE
Date: 9th June 2011
Time: 10.30am - 4.00pm
Cost: $150.00

About the trainer

Mark Palmer is the Lead Accessibility Consultant for User Vision.  He has 12 years experience in the IT Industry, 6 of which were spent heading the user interface team at a leading online bank. In his role as Senior Analyst Programmer, Mark headed up numerous projects, ensuring that accessibility standards were maintained from the projects inception through to the delivered product.

A passionate advocate for accessibility and web standards, Mark brings a wealth of accessibility experience to User Vision. He is a strong believer that the web can be accessible and user friendly without sacrificing style.  In addition to helping develop highly accessible websites, Mark has conducted dozens of accessibility audits for organisations including the BBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Emirates Airline, and the Government of Abu Dhabi.  He also has conducted many projects involving usability testing websites with disabled users and can describe the everyday barriers encountered online by disabled people and the solutions needed to avoid these.