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Building Accessible Websites
Web Design Courses |
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Public scheduled course £450
Prices exclude VAT. |
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This course is designed for those already familiar with the basics of HTML or working with web development tools, who need to grasp the practical realities of designing and developing accessible websites. The course explores legal guidelines governing accessibility and covers how to critique and audit sites for access compliance.
This is a two day practical, hands-on course for those who actually have to plan, layout and build web content. If you would prefer a one-day overview of accessibility guidelines, please see our Conforming to Accessibility Guidelines course outline.
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Introduction
Background to accessibility
• Current legal guidelines
Who has access issues?
• Identifying key disability groups
• Overview of technologies used by people with disabilities
The WAI?guidelines
• Rationale for dividing guidelines into degrees of priority
• Review of priority 1 guidelines
• Review of priority 2 guidelines
• Review of priority 3 guidelines
Clean, structured pages
• Understanding XHTML?syntax
• Working with the DOCTYPE
• Validating code for standards compliance
Adding structure to content
• Headings and subheadings
• Creating paragraphs
• Line breaks and horizontal rules
• Ordered and unordered lists
Auditing your site
• The W3C accessibility checklist
• Identifying the right level of accessibility
• About Bobby and other access checking tools |
Dreamweaver and accessibility
• Dreamweaver's accessibility features
Working with images
• Content images and design images
• Client side image maps
Issues with tables
• Using tables for layout (or not)
• Using div tags instead of tables
Building accessible web forms
• Creating a basic input form
• Making the form work with actions
• Styling the form with CSS
Building accessible navigation
• Text based navigation menus
• Using divs (layers) for drop downs
• Making navigation device independent
Accessible Flash
• Designing accessible Flash
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If you'd like to book by phone, or discuss your requirements;
 Courses provided by partners Media Training.
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