Developers and designers workshops

Our in-house workshops for developers and designers cover in depth technical accessibility issues from a practical perspective. Specifically, we demonstrate access technology such as screen readers, magnifiers and voice recognition software and relate them to real world accessibility problems. As with all our courses, we’ll customise our workshops to match the exact needs of you and your team.

"I just wanted to say that I found the seminar given by AbilityNet very useful, I especially found the video clips very informative and effective in putting across the message. I have also downloaded several of the tools recommended and this has helped me in my work tremendously. It was a very effective use of my time attending the course. Please keep me informed of future developments."
Lai King, Transport For London

Course aim

To give developers and designers the practical know how on how to build, design and maintain accessible websites

Duration

The course lasts for a full day – 10.00am to 4.30pm

Audience

This course is intended for developers and designers who either have no, or a basic, understanding of web accessibility and want a practical hands on training experience to learn key skills.

Course content

As part of a workshop we can cover a range of subjects, including:

Web accessibility guidelines – explains in detail all the key level 1 and 2 accessibility checkpoints such as images, JavaScript, multimedia, hypertext links and forms – using examples and giving coding techniques on how to fix the issues
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – a technique that can greatly enhance the accessibility of your websites with the added benefit of making your pages more compact, easier to maintain and quicker to download; we can step you through the process of creating a website with CSS and explain how it benefits accessibility
Web 2.0 and Ajax – we’ll explain how new technology raises new accessibility challenges and provide advice on how to implement it effectively
Testing for accessibility – you need to test your site for accessibility regularly; we share tools and techniques to help you test your site thoroughly and efficiently even if your time and resources are limited.

Coming soon - accessible Flash

Flash has a reputation for being inaccessible. We can explain the boundaries of this rich media, giving you good practice guidance on how and where to use Flash to maximise accessibility and usability.

For more information:

Email accessibility@AbilityNet.org.uk
Phone 0800 269545

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Web team support

Our team of experts can assist your developers in making any changes necessary after your user test or audit. See our Web team support page.