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Accessibility This 2.5 hour training will give participants the knowledge and tools required to gauge the accessibility of web content. The session will take an applied look at Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) by explaining how to assess and implement each web accessibility success-criterion.
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How can you know what colours and contrast are appropriate? How can you ensure that people with vision disabilities can read your documents? This webinar will review a variety of colour contrast checkers, including those available online and in most mainstream applications such as Microsoft, InDesign and PDFs.
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Get tips on the best and most accessible design choices – from choosing colours and fonts, to ensuring documents are accessible to assistive technology users.
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Many people have difficulty understanding what is meant by ‘website accessibility’ and how this is achieved. This 45-minute webinar will give you an understanding of how people with various disabilities access your website and how websites can be made accessible. You will learn about the background and theory of website accessibility, how accessibility effects visitors to your site, and what changes you can immediately make to increase the accessibility of your website.
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In June 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium issued an expanded version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) 2.0, adding 17 new success criteria. The new criteria, called the WCAG 2.1, is an extension of the WCAG 2.0 standards and updates include ones relating to mobile devices; disabilities that affect vision, such as low vision; and disabilities that affect cognitive function, such as attention deficit disorder and age-related cognitive decline. This 60-minute webinar will cover the recent changes to the WCAG.
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Do you wonder how accessible your organization’s social media posts are? Would you like to make your tweets, Instagram stories and Facebook posts inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities? In this 45-minute webinar we’ll cover some general guidelines for creating accessible social media posts, review common pitfalls, and discuss both accessibility features available on different platforms and some workarounds you could use when built in accessibility features are not available.
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This 2-hour webinar provides a technical explanation of how to create accessible website content. Web developers will come away with a deep understanding of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, the AODA requirements for website accessibility, and how to achieve WCAG 2.1 conformance.
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In this introduction to mobile accessibility participants will gain understanding of what creates accessible mobile experiences, how the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) can be applied to mobile, and the ways in which people with disabilities interact with different types of mobile technologies.
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Did you know that accurate captioning is a basic WCAG 2.0 Level A requirement? This 60-minute webinar will give you the tips and best practices to ensure your YouTube and other web-based videos are captioned accessibly. Participants will learn how to caption in a way that provides optimal comprehension while meeting legal compliance and get a step-by-step walk through of the YouTube captioning editor.
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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. This is a high-level, platform agnostic information session.
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For users of screen reading applications and people with visual impairments, text alternatives (alt text) convey the purpose or function of an image so as to provide an equivalent user experience in a document or on a website. In this 45-minute virtual training, participants will learn how and when to apply alternative text ; test their knowledge through in-class exercises; and get an opportunity to ask questions of our accessibility expert.
