Web Developers

  • 4 x 3.5 hour sessions via Webex
  • Laptop required
  • £600 + VAT (offer til end of July)
  • Max. 15 students

Enables Developers to understand the needs and challenges of people with disabilities, and how to apply the latest techniques to create responsive websites that meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.1 AA.

Learn practical web development techniques to ensure websites are fully accessible across desktop, tablet and mobile. This course is also suitable for anyone building hybrid web apps. It includes an online assessment at the end of the course, to gain formal accreditation for your accessible coding skills from Hassell Inclusion Academy.

If you are interested in us running this as a remote public course between now and the end of July, please register your interest.

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You will learn how to...

Build your knowledge of accessibility through 12 practical modules covering:

  • Who accessibility benefits, the tools and techniques people who need it use, and a demonstration of key testing tools
  • Signposting content - the importance of semantic HTML
  • Links and buttons
  • Images and Media
  • Text and Content
  • Tables
  • Keyboard and Gestures
  • Introduction to WAI-ARIA
  • Content that updates
  • User input (including forms and error messages, labels, and field autocomplete)
  • Custom controls and widgets
  • Review and delegate feedback

Who is it for?

Suitable for Web Developers who want to learn to make the sites they build as accessible as possible, with the minimum of fuss, and the confidence they're using the right techniques

Benefits

To you

  • Improve your personal skills in accessible web development, learning with your peers, from experts who themselves build sites every week
  • ‘Continuing Professional Development’ for teams (leading to formal accreditation)
  • Develop in-house expertise in the latest standards of web accessibility.

To your organisation

  • Increased market access and revenue opportunities through coding accessible, compliant sites that allow the fullest access to 20% of the population that are often excluded
  • Reduced risk of legal challenge (legal or regulatory) from site visitors who can't complete tasks on your site
  • Business advantage wherever clients require accessibility, especially in international markets with strict procurement requirements (Europe, USA, Australia)

Prerequisites

Skills

  • Completion of the pre-course learning questionnaire
  • Skills in web development (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript)
  • Desire to learn and discuss code ideas

Tech

  • Bring your own laptop to the session (PC or Mac)

Meet one of our trainersAbout Graham

Graham has over 10 years experience in accessibility and is an experienced website developer and trainer of developers in web and mobile accessibility. With a background in development in large and small organisations, he upskills developers through our developer training, provides embedded accessibility support to help teams avoid and fix accessibility issues, and provides demonstrations of accessibility tools and assistive technologies to enable everyone to understand the user experiences peop…

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