This workshop provides a technical introduction to creating accessible content. Participants will receive an in-depth overview of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, AODA requirements, and how conformance can be achieved. The session will also cover a list of practical tools for assessing and implementing accessibility.

This hands-on workshop will give participants the knowledge and tools required to gauge the accessibility of web content. The session will cover an in-depth overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, provide information on assessing each success-criterion, and include a hands-on exercise where participants will get a chance to review a website or document against WCAG 2.0 using a three-step approach along with simplified checklists.

It can sometimes be challenging to know what accessibility efforts can be implemented on a content level vs. those that are dependent on the platform where your content exists. In this 60-minute webinar, we will differentiate between platform and content level issues and dive deeper into techniques you can use to make your content more accessible.  Topics include: How WCAG applies to web content issues. Accessibility considerations for Text (eg. reading level), Images (eg. Text alternatives), and Multimedia (eg. Captioning…

Adobe InDesign is a great page layout software used to create ads, flyers, posters, brochures, etc. Through hands-on exercises and instructor demonstrations, we will teach how to use this software, as well as tips and tricks that will make your work easier and more professional. This workshop is suitable for beginners as well as those wanting to relearn more sophisticated use.

This hands-on workshop (Part 1) is designed to clearly explain how to create an accessible document using Microsoft Word. It will demonstrate converting documents to PDF format and examine the required structure for assistive technologies.

The is Part 2 of our accessible documents training sessions. In it you will learn how to make accessible PDFs, including complex content and handling PDFs when no source document is available.

Tables have always been a challenge for Assistive Technology. Particularly because of merged and split cells. The techniques outlined in this webinar will demonstrate the required steps to make table content more accessible in both Word and InDesign, followed up by review and editing of the table within Acrobat - applying techniques that go beyond the average simple table.