NOTE: This course is offered in two ways:
- A half day option
- Two day option
The Accessibility Remediation Workshop is a hands-on course designed to provide participants with practical skills and techniques for identifying and fixing accessibility issues in digital content. In this workshop, participants will dive into real-world scenarios and work on remediating common accessibility barriers, ensuring that websites, applications, and documents are inclusive and comply with accessibility standards.
Objectives:
- Understanding Accessibility Barriers: Gain an understanding of common accessibility barriers that individuals with disabilities face when interacting with digital content, including issues related to keyboard accessibility, alternative text, color contrast, form fields, and more.
- Overview of Accessibility Standards: Familiarize yourself with key accessibility standards and guidelines, such as WCAG and Section 508, and understand their requirements for creating accessible digital content.
- Accessibility Evaluation and Testing: Learn how to evaluate digital content for accessibility issues using manual techniques and automated testing tools, and understand the importance of conducting thorough accessibility testing.
- Hands-on Remediation Techniques: Dive into hands-on exercises and practical examples to gain experience in remediating accessibility issues, such as adding alternative text to images, fixing keyboard accessibility, improving color contrast, optimizing form fields, and enhancing navigation elements.
- Assistive Technology and User Testing: Understand the role of assistive technologies in accessing digital content and learn how to conduct user testing to gain valuable insights into accessibility barriers and remediation needs.
- Responsive Design and Accessibility: Learn how to address accessibility considerations in responsive web design, ensuring that digital content is accessible across different devices and screen sizes.
- Accessibility Compliance Reporting: Understand the importance of documenting accessibility issues, remediation efforts, and compliance reports to track progress and ensure ongoing accessibility maintenance.
- Collaboration and Communication: Explore effective communication strategies for collaborating with designers, developers, content creators, and stakeholders to advocate for accessibility and facilitate successful remediation efforts.
- Continued Accessibility Monitoring: Discover techniques and tools for ongoing accessibility monitoring, including the use of automated testing tools, periodic audits, and user feedback, to ensure the sustained accessibility of digital content.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is suitable for web designers, developers, content creators, accessibility professionals, quality assurance testers, project managers, and anyone involved in the remediation of accessibility issues. Participants should have a basic understanding of web technologies and accessibility principles. Whether you are new to accessibility remediation or seeking to enhance your existing skills, this workshop provides hands-on experience to confidently tackle accessibility challenges.
Join us in this interactive workshop and gain the practical skills needed to identify and remediate accessibility issues in digital content. Walk away with a solid foundation in accessibility remediation and contribute to a more inclusive digital world. Enroll today and make a difference in accessibility for all.
Accessibility Statement:
The Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights would like to make this an inclusive and accessible experience for everyone. Should anyone require disability-related accommodations to participate in this training, please send any requests to [email protected] as early as possible, but no later than the Monday prior at noon (12pm), so that we have time to arrange for the necessary accommodations.
Note: To allow for time to put the disability-related accommodation in place, we recommend including a date that is at least 5 business days prior to the event.