Web Accessibility Online Training Ecorptrainings

Web Accessibility Online Training Ecorptrainings in Hyderabad in India.

Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of removing barriers that prevent access to websites by people with disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software and/or text-to-Braille hardware. When text and images are large and/or enlargeable, it is easier for users with poor sight to read and understand the content. When links are underlined (or otherwise differentiated) as well as colored, this ensures that color blind users will be able to notice them. When clickable links and areas are large, this helps users who cannot control a mouse with precision.

Course Content
Website Accessibility Overview
Why bother with website accessibility?
What sort of website accessibility, and for whom?
Different groups of disabled people
Deaf
Hard-of-hearing
Hearing-impaired
Blind
Visually-
impaired
Low-vision
Mobility-impaired
Learning-disabled
etc

Different accessibility problems
Shared and common accessibility problems
Web accessibility and non-web accessibility
Website accessibility standards
Website accessibility tools and technologies
Browser and platform compatibility
Assistive technologies
Screen readers and aural interfaces
Braille displays
Switch-click input devices
TDD/TTYs
Modified keyboards, mice and similar input devices
Magnifiers
OCR
Speech recognition
Touch screens
Head/eye control
Word prediction and correction
Web Accessibility and UK Law
Legal requirements
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
Disability Rights Commission (DRC)
DRC Powers and DDA enforcement
DDA Code of Practice and the WAI
RNIB
Remedies outside the courts
Case studies
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
The WAI project
The WAIs Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
3 Levels of WCAG compliance: A, AA, AAA
Key requirements of the WCAG
Relationship between the WCAG and UK Government guidelines
WCAG and compliance testing
Automated tests: Cynthia, Bobby, Web Exact, etc.
Manual checks and checklists
HTML Markup and Web Accessibility
Understanding markup
Page structure, presentation and semantics
Choosing the right element
HTML versus XHTML
Strict versus Transitional versus Frameset DOCTYPEs
Deprecated elements
DOCTYPES and browser quirks modes
Developer and designer tools
Author tools and content management systems (CMS)
CSS Styling and Web Accessibility
Separating content from presentation
The cascade, inheritance, specifity
Fonts, colours and other text properties
Table-less page layout
Using lists for navigation
Columns and other layout techniques
Specifying media
Accessibility-specific media
Aural stylesheets
Print stylesheets
Using :before and :after pseudo-classes
Accessible Images and Imaging
The most visible web accessibility problem (pun intended)
Simple versus complex image problems
Well-intentioned but counter productive accessibility methods
The infamous alt="spacer.gif"
Providing alternative text descriptions: alt, title andlongdesc attributes
Mixing alt and title safely
Problems with using longdesceffectively
Problems with D-links
"object" versus "embed"
The "iframe" option
Arrows and bullets
Ascii art
Background images and borders
Charts and Graphs: a really hard nut to crack
Maps
Outlines and hierchies
Ratings
Photo galleries
SVG
Accessible Links and Navigation
Usability and accessibility
Key terms: tabs, navbar, etc.
Understanding focus and cursors
Consistent and unambiguous navigation structures
How and why to skip navigation
Skipping 2-part navigation structures
Navigation skipping and search
Other page landmarks
Page extremities
Identifying link destinations (withtitle)
Linking to page fragments with and without conventional anchors
Using name= and id= attributes
Visible vs invisible anchors
Problems with link destination markup
Separating consecutive text links
Specifying keyboard shortcuts for links
accesskey
(Browser) problems with accesskey
accesskey tips and tricks
Using the tab key for navigation
tabindex
Problems with the tabindex concept
(Browser) problems with thetabindex
tabindex and forms, including search
tabindex and content management systems (CMS)
tabindex tips and tricks
Accessible imagemap navigation
DHTML/JavaScript navigation: just say no
Site Maps
Text and Colour
The problem with text-only parallel sites
Headers and tabbing
Heading order and level
Phrasal markup (em, strong, cite, etc.)
Accessibility-related phrasal markup (abbr, acronym, etc.)
Quotes, blockquotes and quotation marks (using the cite and langattributes)
Specifying language and encoding
Type size, scalability, magnification and halation.
Text quantity/complexity and the learning disabled
Text colour and colour deficiencies (protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, etc).
Colour adjacency/overlap and colour combinations
Estimated and system colours for links
Text as images
HTML Tables
Data tables versus layout tables
Nesting and other things to avoid in table design
Metadata in tables
Using headers, footers and titles for data tables.
Table structure
col
colgroup
scope=""
id=""
Fi
nding relevant data in cells
Random access to table cells
Forms
Problems with forms and assistive technology
Keyboard control
Moving to and within forms
Form completion by selection
Grouping form elements
fieldset
option and optgroup
Associating labels with form elements
Using title attributes
Graphical buttons
Pre-filled form fields
Re-thinking form layout with serialisation in mind
Predictive tyoing and error checking
Dynamic (conditional) forms provide parallel HTML-based advance
Contacts: phone numbers, text phones (TTYs) and relay services for the hearing impaired.
Mail/print services and braille
Multimedia & scripting
Audio versus video
(Browser) problems with the multimedia object element
Alternative data streams and captioning in multimedia formats (quicktime, Real, Windows media, Flash, MPEG, etc)
Multiple alternate feeds
Support for the Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
Microsofts non-standard Synchronised Access Media Interchange (SAMI)
Problems with multimedia player interfaces
Captioning options (DIY Anime versus professional agency captioning)
Captioning and transcription styles
Captioning tools: MAGpie, CCaption, etc.
Transcription versus text description
Text description versus audio narration
Accessible Flash
Issues with Javascript and other browser scripting languages.
Providing keyboard-based alternatives to mouse events
Certification and Testing
Choosing your Level of WCAG compliance: A, AA, AAA
Deciding, publishing and auditing policy
Retrofitting accessibility while updating old pages
Retritting priorities: popular pages, essential pages, highly innaccessible pages, etc
Priorities for new pages: WCAG Level 1 (A)
Small exceptions to full compliance
Testing with Cynthia
The problem with Bobby
Testing with screen readers
Testing with human subjects: disabled and non-disabled
Emacspeak
Coming and Future Options
Serial versus random access
Rich audio interfaces (not screen readers)
Random access using metadata and standardised grammar for sections
The database/CMS problem and open source software
Repair tools ... A-Prompt on steroids?
Training in subjective assessment