Continuing Education
Registration Form: Web Publishing: Accessibility Techniques

Course Description

Web site accessibility: allowing any user to visit, understand, and interact with your web site. If you manage a web site, then you understand how difficult this can be. Is a text-only web site really the only way to ensure accessibility? No. As a matter of fact, some text-only web sites are still inaccessible.

In this live online course taught in two hour segments over four consecutive days, we’ll delve into the details of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to figure out what we can do to make our existing web sites more accessible. Specifically, we will discuss the characteristics your users may have that make it difficult to use the web, documents that can provide guidance, and mark-up used for text, navigation, and images.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Make text accessible
Make navigation accessible
Make images accessible

Who Should Attend?

Web developers.

Prerequisites:

Good understanding of HTML and CSS and ability to create HTML in a text editor such as Windows Notepad.

Homework Expectations and Completion Requirements:

In addition to the daily class session, there will be approximately one hour of homework each day.

In addition to the usual technical requirements, participants should have, on their local computer:

Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
Windows Notepad or equivalent text editor
JAWS Demonstration Version -- www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jaws.asp
Ability to save a file and send a file via email

Technical Requirements for Live Online Classes:

Registration to this free of charge class is limited to two people from each library system. While this is an online class, it is live and there are only 13 "seats" available. If you were paying for this session it would cost $265. Registration will be accepted on a first come first served basis. The registration deadline is two weeks prior to the session.

Dates, Times & Locations:

Tuesday, October 28 through Friday, October 31, 2008, 2 pm - 4 pm ET, online *

* You must attend all four days.

Certification Renewal Points:

0.8

Deadline for Registration:

Two weeks prior to the class session.

LIMITATIONS:

No more than two persons per library system will be accepted per class session.

Registration Form

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Provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds as administered by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.