Course Outline

I. Accessibility: What it is and what problems are most commonly associated with it.

1. What is accessibility?;

2. Are people with disabilities a rarity?;

3. Who is a person with a disability?;

4. People with motor dysfunction;

5. People with cognitive and intellectual disorders;

6. People with hearing dysfunction;

7. People with visual dysfunction;

8. Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities;

9. Groups of people with disabilities are not homogeneous;

10. What problems most commonly arise in ensuring accessibility?

11. Person with a disability and service at the office: how to serve people with disabilities.

II. Digital Accessibility and WCAG Standard

1. What is digital accessibility?

2. Who sets digital accessibility standards?

3. WCAG as the foundation of accessibility

4. WCAG documents

5. Division of WCAG guidelines

6. WCAG standard

7. When did accessibility become mandatory?

8. Technical and organizational requirements for digital accessibility of websites according to WCAG 

a) Accessibility principles

b) 78 success criteria

c) Levels of success criteria – minimal, recommended, comfortable

d) 17 new success criteria according to WCAG

e) Backward compatibility of WCAG 

9. Act of April 4, 2019 on digital accessibility of websites and the WCAG standard 

- Digital accessibility requirements according to the annex to the Act

a) 4 principles, 13 guidelines, 49 success criteria

b) Perceivability, operability, understandability, and compatibility – what do they mean for entities?• Principle 1: Perceivability – how to achieve it?

• Principle 2: Operability

• Principle 3: Understandability

• Principle 4: Robustness

c) Success criteria at the minimum (A) and recommended (AA) levels – how to implement them and in what scope?

10. Accessibility Statement

a) How to prepare an accessibility statement? Elements of an accessibility statement

b) Placement of the accessibility statement

c) Updating the accessibility statement

11. Technical requirements for websites in accordance with the annex to the Act on digital accessibility of websites and guidelines issued by the competent minister for informatization

a) Alternative text

b) Accessible media players for people with disabilities

c) Transcripts, captions, audio descriptions

d) Headings and proper hierarchy

e) Tables as a structural element of a webpage – can they be used?

f) Navigation mechanisms

g) Navigation and reading order

h) Information architecture

i) Navigational elements and messages

j) Links

k) Automatic page playback

l) Content contrast

m) Button to switch to high-contrast version

n) Typography, contrasts, and readability

o) Responsiveness

p) Dynamic content changes

q) Form fields and labels

r) CAPTCHA – allowed or not?

s) Compliance with HTML standards

12. Practical Issues of Digital Accessibility

a) Is it necessary to publish document scans?

b) Tender documentation and digital accessibility

c) Scientific and technical publications and digital accessibility

d) What to do with financial declarations in the context of digital accessibility?

e) Content created by external entities and digital accessibility – when must it be digitally accessible, and when not?

f) Is a high-contrast version of a website necessary?

g) Audio description and digital accessibility

h) Digital accessibility and social media platforms

i) How to ensure digital accessibility in contracts and public procurement?

j) Fonts – which ones?

k) Service navigation using a keyboard

l) Navigation in the service 4

m) Extended captions – how to prepare them

n) Sign Language Interpreter (PJM) – requirement or good practice?

o) Text justification – why not?

p) Simple language – when to use it and what does it mean?

q) Easy-to-read text (ETR) – when do we use it?

r) Machine-readable text – when do we use it?

s) What does a government digital accessibility audit report mean, and what to do with it?

13. Checking Digital Accessibility

a) Methods for finding errors and assessing the digital accessibility of websites

b) How to find basic digital accessibility issues on a website?

c) How to independently assess the digital accessibility of a website?

Requirements

Target Audience: 

• All individuals interested in the above topics;

• Accessibility specialists.

 7 Hours

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