Accessibility Fundamentals

Course Synopsis

An overview of accessibility of Electronic Information & Technology and a review of the range of Assistive Technologies and their usage by people with disabilities. This one-day course gives you the basics of challenges faced by people with disabilities.

Prerequisites

None

What you will learn

This course is designed to cover the following basic topics:

What are Assistive Technologies?
A first hand perspective of the experience of navigating a web application, software, hardware or documents using a screen reader or magnification software
An understanding of the accessibility challenges faced by users with disabilities
The two components of web accessibility testing – automated testing and the functional usability test
Fundamentals of testing with a Screen Reader
Alternative of tools used to perform an accessibility test
Before and after navigation experience of making a web application accessible