Designing web accessibility For A Beautiful Web
If you thought that web accessibility is all about alt text, guidelines and restrictions on your creativity, this master class will change your mind forever and improve your web site and applications.
Lunch with a star guest speaker
On this master class you will be joined for lunch by a star guest speaker, a well-known industry leader who will entertain you with their wit and repartee and will fill you with inspiration with their unique insights while you fill up with food.
Guidelines and laws protect the rights of people with special needs who use the web, but understanding how best to put them into practice, without affecting visual design or brand requirements, can sometimes be difficult. This master-class provides up-to-the minute, practical solutions that will help you to ensure that your content and services are as accessible as possible to the widest range of customers.
This one-day course, presented by Andy Clarke, one of the most well-known designers of accessible web sites, will challenge you to think differently about accessibility and is packed full of practical, real-world examples of how to design and develop highly accessible web sites. It will take the worry out of accessibility.
This master-class covers
- Seeing web accessibility in a new light, from a designer's perspective
- Discovering how accessibility is a creative challenge, not a limitation
- Planning and executing an accessible design
- Designing in the browser for better accessibility
- Authoring more meaningful, accessible mark-up
- Understanding guidelines and their place in a designer's toolbox
Registration and coffee: 8:15am - 9:00am
Introduction:
- Defining accessible design
- Understanding accessibility issues
- Comparing accessibility and usability
- Learning everyone can design accessible web sites
- Benefiting people without disabilities
Planning for accessible design:
- Defining your accessibility targets
- Building accessibility into design
- Wireframing for better accessibility
- Testing for accessibility earlier
- Learning to design in the browser
Coffee Break: 10:30am - 10:45am
Designing accessible content:
- Creating flexible layouts
- Designing accessible navigation
- Working with images
- Considering colour and contrast
- Deciding on accessibility features
- Working with rich media content
Writing accessible content:
- Authoring meaningful mark-up
- Working with images
- Handling alternatives
- Coding accessible navigation
- Deciding on skip navigation links
- Working with tables for tabular data
- Creating accessible forms
Coffee Break: 15:30pm - 15:45pm
Designing with CSS:
- Using CSS to create accessible layouts
- Making text sizes flexible
- Improving readability through better typography
- Replacing text with images
- Switching style sheets
Integrating accessibility into design:
- Adopting an unobtrusive approach
- Creating visitor profiles and personas
- Involving people with disabilities in your project
- Testing for usability and accessibility
Q&A: 17:00pm - 17:30pm
Social: 18:00pm - till late
A further opportunity for you to network with your fellow attendees.
We will be limiting the maximum number of people attending to 40, so that you will be able to get involved and have all your questions answered.