Thursday 5th November – Friday 6th November
Aims and objectives
This workshop will be a practical two days on how making the small changes to your website and content workflow can make the world of difference. You will learn:
- The WCAG 2.1 guidelines and how this works with the UK accessibility legislation
- How to produce accessible content and social posts
- What is assistive technology and understand how your work is interpreted
- Performing an audit and reacting to the results
Schedule
Thursday 5th November 2020
09:30 – 10:30 – Introduction into accessibility, responsibility from project conception to go live.
This will cover accessibility awareness, design, development and content
10:30 – 11:00 – Wireframe and design analysis
Using three designs and a wireframe what issues are we going to spot from external designers. What tools can be used to assist in the review.
- Wireframe 1 – https://www.horlix.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wireframe-1.png
- Wireframe 2 – https://www.horlix.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wireframe-2.png
11:00 – 11:30 – Bringing together what we have learned plus Q & A Session
We will go through a typical development as part of this exercise.
Friday 6th November 2020
09:30 – 10:00 – Recap and any questions
10:00 – 10:45 – Web Content
Going through what to consider when creating accessible digital content for a website
10:45 – 11:00 – Social Media
This will cover best practices of how to create accessible social content
11:00 – 11:30 – Assistive technology demonstration with Winchester University web pages.
Resources
- SiteImprove Chrome Extention – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/siteimprove-accessibility/efcfolpjihicnikpmhnmphjhhpiclljc
- WAVE Chrome Extention – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wave-evaluation-tool/jbbplnpkjmmeebjpijfedlgcdilocofh
- Latest Install of Chrome
- Latest Install of Firefox
- For Windows
- NVDA Screen Reader – https://www.nvaccess.org/
- NVDA Cheat Sheet – https://www.horlix.com/accessibility-training-with-terminalfour/nvda-cheet-sheet/
- For Mac (all inbuilt)
- Voiceover
- Voice Control
- Zoom