W3CWeb Accessibility initiative

WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities

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[Draft] Web Accessibility Workshop Outline

This page provides an example outline of a 3-day hands-on workshop on web accessibility. The workshop has been developed using the Presentation and Training Topics and includes a variety of individual sessions. Presenters and trainers may need to adapt this workshop depending on their actual audience.

See also: How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All for guidance on ensuring that your training is accessible to all of your audience, including participants with disabilities.

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Overview

Scenario: A 3-day hands-on workshop to inform about web accessibility and to teach developers how to implement accessibility requirements.

Target audience:

Learning objectives:

After the training, participants should be able to:

In addition, authors and non-technical developers should be able to:

Website developers and application programmers should additionally be able to:

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Schedule

Day 1 schedule

Day 2 schedule

Day 3 schedule

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Session Descriptions

Day 1 - Session 1: Introduction to web accessibility:

Target audience: Project managers and decision makers; corporate communications and marketing staff; content authors; website developers

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Day 1 - Session 2: Components of web accessibility

Target audience: Project managers; communications and marketing staff; content authors; website developers

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Day 1 - Session 3: Managing web accessibility

Target audience: Project managers; communications and marketing staff; content authors; website developers

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Day 1 - Session 4: Accessible content authoring

Target audience: Content authors; communications and marketing staff; website developers; project managers

Note: This session is just an introduction to the preparation of accessible web content. Additional and focused training may be required for web content authors.

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Day 2 - Session 1: Working with WCAG 2.0

Target audience: web developers and application programmers; content authors; project managers

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Day 2 - Session 2: Accessible visual design and CSS

Target audience: web developers and application programmers; content authors

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Day 2 - Session 3: Accessible images

Target audience: web developers and application programmers; content authors

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Day 2 - Session 4: Accessible multimedia

Target audience: web developers and application programmers; content authors

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Day 2 - Session 5: Accessible page structure

Target audience: web developers and application programmers; content authors

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Day 2 - Session 6: Accessible site navigation and orientation

Target audience :web developers and application programmers; content authors

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Day 3 - Session 1: Accessible tables

Target audience: web developers and application programmers

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Day 3 - Session 2: Accessible forms

Target audience: web developers and application programmers

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Day 3 - Session 3: Basics of accessible scripting and WAI-ARIA

Target audience: web developers and application programmers

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Day 3 - Session 4: Principles of conformance evaluation

Target audience: web developers and application programmers

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Day 3 - Session 5: Workshop review and lessons learnt

Target audience: web developers and application programmers

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Important Notes

Note: this is an initial workshop and a follow up may be appropriate for content authors as a quality assurance 'line of defence', working more with their content management system (CMS) or authoring tool on accessibility checking, and reinforcing their role in developing and publishing accessible content.

Additional notes for presenters for the technical sessions on days 2 and 3:

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