Accessible Web Page Design Curriculum
It is estimated that one in five people have a disabling condition at some time in their lives. As the population ages, the need for accessible information technology will increase along with these numbers. Knowbility has designed this curriculum so that you can broaden your web site design skills to include this growing population.
Just as building designs can help persons who use wheelchairs to navigate doorways, there are ways to accommodate persons with disabilities in their use of online communications. Techniques and tools are readily available to help create systems that are flexible enough to meet the needs and preferences of the broadest range of users of computers and telecommunications equipment. People with disabilities, many of whom use assistive technologies to browse the web, are also prospective customers, employees, and participants in online communities.
Course Content
- How To Use This Curriculum
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Intro: Why Is Accessibility on
the Internet Important?
This curriculum is about a change in mind set as much as it is about learning tools and techniques. -
Getting Started
- Test the Accessibility of a Web Page You Frequent
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Witness First Hand What It's Like to Use an Assistive
Technology to Browse the Web
- Content, Structure, and Presentation
- Basic Themes of Accessibility
- The Basics
- Accessibility Foundations A brief introduction to the basics of accessible design
- Knowbility's Accessibility 101 Course A thorough foundation course Maintained by Jim Thatcher
- Advanced Accessibility Concepts
- Tables
- Moving Or Blinking Elements
- WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Frequently Used Third Party Web Design Products, Such as PDF
- Knowbiliity's Advanced AIR Training Maintained by James Craig, this class covers complex tables and forms, multimedia, flash, cascading style sheets and Javascript
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Next Steps and The Human Element
- The importance of human review
- How to get upper management and other staff to buy-in to the idea of accessibility
- Other Suggested Resources/Where to Find More Information
- One Page Summary of Key Points for Accessible Design
- Evaluation of workshop(s)
This curriculum was designed to help Web designers learn how to create Web sites that are accessible to people with disabilities, and how to teach others to do so.
However, be advised that this curriculum is merely your starting point. Technologies are evolving and changing rapidly, and the guidelines for accessibility are evolving just as fast. We link to a variety of organizations and online resources to help you keep learning about accessibility, and we encourage you to become an expert in your own area and share your experience with others.
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Read more about the people and organizations behind the Accessibility Curriculum
If you find this information helpful, or would like to add information based on your own experience, please contact us.
