Overview

Content

Week
1. Intro to Accessibility
2. Accessibility for Devs

In this series of workshops we cover the following Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

List the 4 main groups of disabilities (visual, hearing, motor, cognitive)
Define what accessibility is
Recall some specific conditions for each categories
Define what an invisible disability is and give some examples
Define situations where you can experience an accessibility issue, for touch, see, hear and speak or a combination of more than one of them (could be done as coursework)
List some reasons why accessibility is important to consider
Illustrate what each letter in SCULPT mean
Apply advice to check colours and give good text links and alt texts
Create an alternative text when sharing photo on social media.
Identify good and bad practice in social media
List the 4 principles of WCAG and define them in their own words
Recall the 3 conformance levels and which one to aim for
Identify situations where respecting the guidelines is not enough for a good user experience

Identify accessibility issues when basic recommendations relative to text, colours, size and motion are not followed
Use contrast checkers to make sure colour choices are accessible
Apply simple tests
Identify accessibility issues for keyboard only users and those using magnifying tools
Use an html checker to make sure html tags are correctly nested and valid
Create good page titles
Create good alt texts
Identify alternative practice to provide content to screen reader users only
Illustrate good and bad use of links vs buttons
Identify accessibility issues like incorrect heading structure, bad tab order, undescriptive link text