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Accessible Excel Documents

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Tables are always a challenge to make accessible, however, the latest version of assistive technologies, such as JAWS, are now optimized to work with Microsoft Office programs. "I liked the different tips shared as well as the practical applications and the demonstration." This one-hour webinar will review the steps to make your Excel documents more...

Overview to Document Accessibility

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Participants in this 45-minute webinar will learn how accessibility effects document creation and how to confirm a document’s compliance. By the end of this session, you will understand what you need to do differently in the document creation process and get suggestions for how to save time and money in the production stages. Commonly asked...

Introduction to Website Accessibility

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Many people have difficulty understanding what is meant by 'website accessibility' and how this is achieved. This 60-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...

Accessible Video Content

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Video is one of the most common ways we engage with content online, and making your video content accessible is crucial for reaching more people. 91.8% of all internet users watch online videos weekly. For 66% of people, video is their primary source of information.  96% of people choose a video to learn about a product...

Graphic Design Tips + Best Practices

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Tips and best practices to make your materials understood by everyone Do you want to create reports, marketing material, and everyday documents that are accessible? Get tips on the best and most accessible design choices – from choosing colours and fonts, to ensuring documents are accessible to assistive technology users. During this 1-hour webinar, you...

Accessible PowerPoint Presentations

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In this one-hour webinar, we will address accessibility issues and best practices for creating PowerPoint presentations. Various tools will be demonstrated in PowerPoint to create an accessible presentation, including appropriate formatting, ordered lists, recommended slide layouts, well-designed tables, hyperlinks and graphics with alternative text, along with some tips to manage content for screen reading devices....

Accessible Word Essentials

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Do you want to know how to make accessible Word documents? This 2-hour webinar will take you step by step through the process and you will learn: How to prepare simple text content for accessibility How to prepare graphical content for accessibility Why navigation is important in a document What is reading order and why...

New in Website Accessibility – WCAG 2.1

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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;...

Web Accessibility for Content Managers

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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...

InDesign Layout Best Practices

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This 40-minute webinar is about what and how to break old print layout habits when trying to create an accessible document. For InDesign documents to become accessible PDFs, it is imperative that you avoid laying out content with the intention of it just being printed and avoid some of those true and tried keyboard shortcuts!...

Social Media – Do it Accessibly!

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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, Facebook and Meta Business Suite posts inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities? In this 50-minute webinar we'll cover some general guidelines for creating accessible social media posts, posting captions in Facebook reels, review common...

Checking Document Accessibility

Virtual Event

While properly constructed tags are essential for an accessible PDF, tags alone are not enough. Some accessibility checkers review only tags while others also check hidden aspects of the document to ensure they are fully accessible. Because these checkers can only check against a list of digital defaults, human inspection is also a very important...

AODA Annual Subscription

Virtual Event

Purchase our AODA training annual subscription and you will have unlimited access to train the staff and volunteers of your organization. We will create a dedicated weblink for your use and we can also customize the course to include your company's branding. Tracking is not available but participants will be able to print their own...

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Workplace Mental Health

Virtual Event

By age 40, about 50% of the population will have, or have had, a mental illness and the earlier a problem is detected and treated, the better the outcome. Everyone has a role to play in supporting workplace mental health and this 2.5 hour webinar will help you to: Reduce mental health stigma among co-workers...

Understanding Mobile Accessibility

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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. What You Will Walk Away With: At the end of this webinar,...

Strategies for Website Accessibility

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This 2.5 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. This training is ideal for those who have already taken...

Accessible InDesign Essentials

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With creative professionals having limited time but needing the most up-to-date training, this Level One, 3-hour webinar will show how to create accessible InDesign content and review the export options and PDF tags.

Auditing Your Website for Accessibility

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This 3.5 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. Having taken the "Auditing your Website for Accessibility " training, I feel...

Creating Custom Word Styles

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You know how to apply accessible default styles in Word, but do you know how to make your own custom styles with accessible tags? In this 1-hour webinar, you will learn how to include corporate branding into a document which has “H” tags and how to move styles between documents to improve efficiency when making...

Checking Colour Contrast for Accessibility

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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. This webinar will teach you how to...

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