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Appropriate for: Web content editors, Web Developers Content Creators
Overview
Are you doing everything you can to make sure your sites are accessible and easy to use? Learn practical accessibility techniques to ensure your web designs can be viewed and used by everyone. Internationally recognized accessibility expert Derek Featherstone walks through examples of common web interaction flows, and then steps through considerations and tactical strategies for each component, to assure that people with disabilities can easily complete those tasks. Learn the proper use of color, contrast, and motion, and find out how to design keyboard interactions and touch interfaces; incorporate images, sound, and video; design accessible forms; structure content at the tag level; and balance responsive design with accessibility.
Topics include:
- Using color, contrast, and animation in an accessible way
- Making experiences accessible via the keyboard
- Working with touch gestures
- Image and multimedia accessibility
- Form accessibility
- Responsive design and accessibility
- Structuring content
Appropriate for: Web content editors, Web Developers
Overview
If you build a website with WordPress, build it with accessibility in mind. Making your content, themes, navigation, and other site features accessible helps everyone—including visitors who want to find your site through search engine results.
This course, merging WordPress coding with accessible web design techniques, helps you make sure your website meets modern accessibility standards. You'll learn how to use the power of WordPress to quickly build a beautiful and accessible website that can be used by people with different types of abilities. Author Joe Dolson provides a broad introduction to accessibility and then focuses on practical steps to make sure your WordPress themes, plugins, and content are accessible and usable to all.
Topics include:
- What is web accessibility?
- Understanding the benefits of accessibility
- Building accessible forms
- Adhering to theme guidelines
- Creating accessible navigation
- Working with images, media, and other accessible content
- Integrating plugins
- Testing your site for accessibility
Appropriate for: Instructors, Content Creators
Overview
The process of remediating a PDF—making sure its structure and tags are compliant with accessibility guidelines—is far from straightforward. The techniques outlined in this course will help you manage complex layouts and add advanced features like security, form fields, and links, while keeping PDFs accessible to users with disabilities. Author Chad Chelius shows how to work with tables, create PDF forms, and add links and security, with Acrobat, Word, InDesign, and LiveCycle Designer, addressing the remediation issues that go beyond the everyday.
Topics include:
- Working with merged cells in a table
- Adding a table summary
- Making scanned PDFs accessible
- Securing accessible PDFs
- Working with text boxes in Microsoft Word
- Adding and remediating footnotes
Appropriate for: Instructors, Content Creators, Designers
Overview
Providing accommodations to make learning accessible is a focal part of training and education. But how do you remove the barriers to effective learning when your classroom goes online? In this course, Oliver Schinkten explores accessibility and fairness in elearning, giving you strategies based on best practices to keep your classroom open and meaningful for all.
Dive into the specifics of how to create an accessible elearning experience. Focus on concrete tactics like designing for screen readers, understanding the proper use of contrast and color, utilizing visual and auditory queues, and publishing content for equitable systems. As elearning continues to grow, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your course is easily accessible to your learners. Learn best practices with Oliver and find out what you need to know to bring better learning access into your curriculum plan and put it into practice at your organization.
Appropriate for: Instructors
Overview
Do all students have equal access to the learning resources and opportunities in your classroom? Learn to provide accommodations to make learning accessible to students with disabilities and meet Section 508 compliance for digital learning. In this course, Oliver Schinkten reviews the different types of disabilities and challenges students may face, and how the use of assistive technologies such as screen readers and closed captioning help to support learners.
Topics include:
- What is accessible learning?
- Accommodating different needs, from vision impairments to lack of digital access
- Adapting presentations, responses, and timing
- Using an LMS to make learning more accessible
- Adding alt text to images
- Adding closed captioning to videos
Appropriate for: Instructors, Content Creators
Overview
This course shows how to make accessible Office documents in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Accessibility expert Glenna Shaw begins by describing what it's like for those with visual, hearing, or movement impairments to experience regular Word and Excel files and PowerPoint presentations. Glenna goes through the essential steps of creating documents that are accessible to all—those using assistive technology and those not—including applying useful headings, formatting tables for ease of use, naming sheet tabs in Excel, using slide layouts and following z-order in PowerPoint, and adding captioning to presentations.
Topics include:
- Making hyperlinks more accessible
- How color impacts accessibility
- Using heading styles in Word and Excel
- Formatting tables in Word
- Naming sheet tabs
- Using slide layouts and fonts
- Adding captions to presentations
Appropriate for: Content Creators, Designers, Instructors
Overview
As digital books aren't constrained to the printed page, they're a great deal more malleable than traditional publications. Ebooks—which are essentially HTML and CSS in an EPUB wrapper—can be output or altered to meet the needs of readers who use assistive technology or have a situational disability. In this course, learn how to create cleaner, more accessible ebooks using Adobe InDesign. Instructor Laura Brady provides a thorough introduction to EPUB accessibility, going over key principles, techniques, and tools that can help you manipulate InDesign to boost a book's accessibility. Laura covers how to separate style and content, improve the navigation and structure of your content, and clearly describe images. Plus, learn about making pagelists and working with tools like the Ace accessibility checker.
Topics Include:
- Why incorporating accessibility is important
- Why style and content need to be separate
- Tricking InDesign into exporting HTML5
- Building a thorough TOC
- Structure in trade and academic publishing
- ARIA best practices
- Handling images and image descriptions
- Marking print-equivalent page breaks
- Defining languages
- Accessibility metadata
- Testing with screen readers