Take a crash course in digital accessibility – what it’s about, and why it matters. There are five different options available:
- Introduction to digital accessibility
- Introduction to accessibility testing tools
- Creating accessibility user profiles
- Practical Accessibility Annotations for UX/UI Designers
- Introduction to Accessible ICT Procurement
Option 1: Introduction to digital accessibility
This session will explore the basics of accessibility including legal, reputation and commercial reasons. There will be a discussion about all the different types of people who could interact with your digital products, and some of the assistive technologies they may use. The session will also explore disability user profiles and how they can be used to improve all the phases of your project life cycle.
Suitable for:
- Any team at any level of accessibility maturity
Details
- Length: 1 x 60 min session
- Delivery: Video conference
- Attendance: Unlimited
- Cost: Free
Session outline
- Why should you care about accessibility?
- Videos: Let’s meet some people
- Accessibility user profiles
- Where could these user profiles be used?
- Questions/discussion
Option 2: Introduction to accessibility testing tools
This session will explore the basics of accessibility including legal, reputation and commercial reasons. There will be an overview of WCAG, what it is, why it is important and how it is structured. The session will then look at a wide range of accessibility testing tools. There will be an activity where participants can use the Axe tool to a selection of sites and understand how to use this tool in real-world environments. The session will conclude by outlining ways that teams can measure the importance of accessibility issues and prioritise them for remediation.
Suitable for:
- Teams who are wanting to add accessibility testing to their processes
Details
- Length: 1 x 60 min session
- Delivery: Video conference
- Attendance: Unlimited
- Cost: Free
Session outline
- Why should you care about accessibility?
- What is WCAG?
- An overview of accessibility testing tools
- Activity: Automated testing with Axe
- Measuring the importance of issues
- Prioritising how issues with be addressed
- Questions/discussion
Option 3: Creating accessibility user profiles
This session will explore all the different types of people who could interact with your digital products, and some of the assistive technologies they may use. There will also be an activity to build out some user profiles so that teams can understand how to create their own customised accessibility user profiles.
Suitable for:
- Design teams who want to add personas into their work
Details
- Length: 1 x 60 min session
- Delivery: Video conference
- Attendance: Unlimited
- Cost: Free
Session outline
- Accessibility user profiles
- Activity: Creating accessibility user profiles
- Questions/discussion
Option 4: Practical Accessibility Annotations for UX/UI Designers
This presentation will de-mystify the practice of annotating designs with accessibility information in software like Figma. It takes a critical look at the value of accessibility annotations and suggests a series of ‘put to use’ approaches to thinking about and doing more for accessibility within the UX/UI workflow.
Suitable for:
- Designers who work in software like Figma, AdobeXD, Sketch
Details
- Length: 1 x 60 min session
- Delivery: Video conference
- Attendance: Unlimited
- Cost: Free
Session outline
- What are Annotations for Accessibility?
- The ‘Three Functions’ of annotations
- Practical annotations and common pitfalls
- A quick look: Headings, Focus Management, and Live Regions
- Questions/discussion
Option 5: Introduction to Accessible ICT Procurement
This session provides an overview of the end-to-end process of accessible ICT procurement for people wanting to know about ensuring the ICT their organisation purchases will be accessible to employees and/or customers with disability.
Details
- Length: 1 x 60 min session
- Delivery: Video conference
- Attendance: Unlimited
- Cost: Free
Suitable for:
- Procurement specialists
- Accessibility specialists
- Diversity and inclusion teams
Session outline
- What is ICT accessibility
- Why we need to address it
- What standards apply
- What are the major waypoints in the accessible procurement process
- Questions/discussion
