Course Outline

I. Accessibility. What it is and what problems are most often 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 only for people with disabilities;

9. Groups with disabilities are not homogeneous;

10. What are the most common problems 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 standards for digital accessibility?;

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 – minimum, recommended, comfortable

d) 17 new success criteria according to WCAG

e) Backward compatibility of WCAG

9. Act of April 4, 2019 on the 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 robustness – what do they mean for an entity?

• Principle 1: Perceivability – how to implement it?

• Principle 2: Operability

• Principle 3: Understandability

• Principle 4: Robustness

c) Success criteria at the minimum (A) and recommended (AA) levels – how should they be implemented and to what extent?

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 page – 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 and contrasts for readability

o) Responsiveness

p) Dynamic content changes

q) Form fields and labels

r) CAPTCHA – can it be used or not?

s) Compliance with HTML standards

12. Practical issues of digital accessibility

a) Is it necessary to publish scanned documents?

b) Tender documentation and digital accessibility

c) Scientific and technical publications and digital accessibility

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

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

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

g) Audio descriptions and digital accessibility

h) Digital accessibility and social media portals

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

j) Fonts – which ones?

k) Service navigation using the keyboard

l) Navigation within the service 4

m) Extended captions – how to prepare them

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

o) Text justification – why not?

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

q) Information in easy-to-read text (ETR) – when do we use it?

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

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

13. Checking digital accessibility

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

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

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

Requirements

Audience:

• All individuals interested in the above topics;

• Accessibility specialists.

 7 Hours

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