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Our Awareness training is the perfect platform for those seeking to answer the important issues surrounding accessibility - what is it, why is it important, what does it mean to us. It seeks to engage the audience by using live demonstrations, case studies and practical illustrations.
What you will learn
During the half-day you will learn:
- The Definition of accessibility and disability
- The Legal Implications of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for your organisation
- Using the Web - How people with impairments use the Web (blind people for example) and the technology they employ to help them do so
- The Benefits of accessible design - legal, financial and otherwise
- The Standards to which your Website(s) needs to comply and current national campaigns for web accessibility
- Assessing your site - How to go about assessing the current Web Accessibility status of your Website(s) and complying with the legislation
- Creating a Corporate Accessibility Policy. How to
ensure that a site remains accessible going forward given the inevitable
addition of content and change of personnel
Who it is for
This course would most benefit those at a decision making level in your organisation - management with responsibility for website performance, Human Resources Managers and Legal Compliance Officers and so forth. If you are booking an in-house course then the course content can if required be based on an initial evaluation of your own website, to ensure the examples are relevant to the participants. More details on this option can be provided if required.
What people say
- "Very useful course, very eye-opening"
- "It's helped me cut through a lot of the myths out there"
- "I didn't realise the benefits we'd see from looking at accessibility - I'm sure we're going to be giving this much more attention now."
Cost
Attending our public half-day course costs £249 per person. This prices includes workshop materials and refreshments.
If you have five or more people in-house who'd like to attend the course then we can arrange on-site training at your location from £149 per person. Please call us for further on-site training pricing details.
When and where
We will next be running this course in London in October, dates to be decided. If you are interested in attending this course then please let us know as we are currently organizing a regional training program. Click here to contact us to book this course.
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