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wl195-ver2.0
Web Site Accessibility (1 day)
Description
This courseware training guide book will help you to master the site design and specific coding techniques necessary to make your site accessible to all. Students will learn about the W3C Guidelines in detail and master implementing them through a series of hands-on examples.
Is your site accessible to persons with sensory and physical disabilities? Upgrading your site to be in full compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility Guidelines will make your company information available to everyone, no matter what their disability. Also, it is a legal requirement that all government agencies and contractors have Web sites that are accessible.
Suggested Prerequisites• Introduction to HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets
• Advanced Web Design: Layout, Forms, and Scripting
Next Courses• Introduction to Information Architecture for the Web
• Principles of Project Management for Technical Team Leads
Objectives• Identify problems disabled persons may experience when navigating the Web
• Pinpoint a site's compliance with each of the W3C Guidelines through the use of screen readers.
• Better use new technologies such as XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets, Flash, PDF's and Dynamic HTML, that can often cause a site to become non-compliant
• Quickly and efficiently upgrade a site to full compliance with W3C Guidelines including accessibility
Course OutlineIntroduction
•Introduction to Our Case Study
•Exercise 0: Downloading and Installing the Files for Class
Web Site Accessibility
•What Is Web Site Accessibility?
The Importance of Accessibility
•Who are the Disabled?
•Challenges People with Disabilities Face on the Web
•Accessibility and the Law
•The Spirit of Accessibility
Designing Accessible Web Pages
•The Equivalent Alternative
•Tables and Frames
•Making HTML Forms Accessible
•Other Accessibility Issues
Summary
Case Study
Appendix A: W3C WCAG Guidelines
Appendix B: Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Application
Appendix C: Resources
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