Accessibility Training

Foviance’s Accessibility Training Course provides developers, designers and content editors with the knowledge and skills necessary to create, design and maintain accessible websites and how best practice can transform the online experience for people with disabilities.

Training can be carried out at Foviance’s office or in-house.

The 1-day accessibility training course covers:

• An introduction to accessibility, including business reasons and understanding how people with disabilities access the web.
• A detailed look at WCAG 2 with explanations of all the key accessibility guidelines and success criteria required to reach level AA compliance.
• Best practice tips and techniques on accessible design and implementation according to WCAG 2, e.g., text alternatives, headings, tables, audio and video.
• A look at new technologies, e.g., Ajax and how some of the new challenges it raises can be overcome.
• Demonstrations of assistive technologies, such as screen readers and screen magnifiers.
• A look at some of the tools and techniques (e.g., assistive technologies, browser toolbars) that can be used to help test for accessibility.
• Examinations of your (delegates) websites to identify some of the challenges that people with disabilities might encounter.