Syllabus for Barier-free Web Design

PEOPLE NOT TECHNOLOGY
EASI is a non-profit organization, committed to the belief that students and professionals with disabilities have the same right to access information technology as everyone else.

Certificate in Accessible Information Technology

Everyone who completes an EASI course will receive an EASI document of completion for that course. Those completing 5 of these courses will earn the EASI Certificate in Accessible Information Technology.

Course Registration and Schedule

Schedule for 2017: June 5, Dec. 4

(Registration is $350 with a 20% discount for EASI Annual Members and for participants from overseas. Rregister from this link using check, PO or Credit card

Lesson 1: Functional vs technical accessability

Section 508 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act
Web Content Accessability Guidelines of the World Wide Consortium
Accessability vs usability

Lesson 2 Web accessability tools

Strengths and weaknesses of automated tools
Introduction to WAVE provided by WebAIM
Understanding a WAVE report
Using the WAVE report to understand web design

Lesson 3: Using WAVE to evaluate several web pages
Which accessibility issues would impact the user the most and the least

How much has this tool hellped you understand the overall issues created by accessability problems?

Lesson 4: Using the WAVE tool to provide assistance for the designers of web pages

Write reports on at least 3 web sites which would help their designers understand how accessible that site is and which could be used by the designer to make significant improvements to their site.

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