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Description
Learn Web Design at Your Own Pace
If you've been looking for a convenient, affordable way to learn Web design - look no further! Our Web Accessibility Design course combines the convenience of online learning with high-quality courseware and curricula typically found in more expensive, traditional classroom-based courses.
The Web has the power to bring people closer together. For those with physical disabilities, however, accessibility can be a problem. Vision and hearing impairments, limited mobility, color blindness, and attention deficit disorder can prevent some users from enjoying the benefits of the Web.
People with such disabilities can struggle with the content, navigation, and color schemes presented on Web sites but it doesn't have to be this way.
Developers have a wide variety of tools and techniques at their disposal to make their Web sites truly user-friendly, even for people with disabilities. By learning to make your Web sites more accessible, you’ll also improve the search engine optimization (SEO) and usability for all site visitors.
In our three-lesson Web Accessibility Design course, you'll learn guidelines and techniques for building accessible Web sites, and how to test for accessibility.
You'll learn how to make your Web sites World Wide Web consortium (W3C) compliant, and complete projects that give you a thorough understanding of these standards.
You'll be surprised to see how creative, robust and interactive your Web site designs can be while meeting even the strictest of standards.
This Web design course is developed by Molly E. Holzschlag, one of the Web's most experienced and influential experts in the field of Web standards.
You'll learn the techniques necessary for building Web sites that can reach all users.
Learn Web design the convenient and affordable way with the Web Accessibility Design course from Gatlin International.
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Outline
LESSON 1 Accessibility Defined
There's much more to making a site accessible than clear navigation and browser compatibility. True website accessibility means making a site available to users with various physical and cognitive disabilities. Lesson One explores the goals of the Web Accessibility movement, the initiatives of the W3C, and how U.S. and international law impacts accessibility. You will also learn about various impairments that can affect Web viewing and how they can be addressed. In the exercise, you'll research and present information about accessibility laws and topics that are most relevant to your Web design goals.
LESSON 2 Addressing WCAG Initiative Priorities
Making a site accessible isn't an arbitrary or opinion-based endeavor Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) break accessibility into three major priority levels, each with a series of checkpoints. This lesson addresses the checkpoints of Levels 1 and 2 and how they should affect your code and design choices. You'll understand how each checkpoint benefits users with various needs. In the exercise, you'll create a Web site that is compliant with priority levels one and two.
LESSON 3 Priority Level 3 and Accessibility Testing
The first focus of this lesson is on priority level three the most strict (and most debated) set of checkpoints. You'll then spend time learning to test your site designs for various levels of accessibility. Web site testing tools and services are covered, and you'll learn how a team or individual designer tackles accessibility testing. The final project will have you checking your own site using two free testing services and thoroughly analyzing the results.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 30.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Margaret Penney is a teacher, designer, writer and media artist. Margaret developed the digital media curriculum at The Masters School, an independent school outside New York City. As a Web and motion graphic designer, Margaret has worked with Simon & Schuster, TIAA-Cref, Nike, Delia's girls clothing, MTV, and Sol Lewittt. As a new media artist, she has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; and around NYC. Her artwork has been reviewed globally online, in print magazines, and included in the book Eye Candy from the Underground: Fresh Styles for Web Designers. She has lectured on new media art at Purchase College, the School of Visual Arts Annual Conference for Educators, and the Pratt Institute. As a writer, she has been published in New York Arts magazine, Rhizome.org, and the Baltimore City paper. Margaret has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and M.F.A. from Columbia University.
- Prerequisites/Audience
Courses are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the Web design course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take this course you'll need a Web hosting account for posting site projects basic XHTML and CSS hand coding skill, and basic Web site building experience.
- Certification
1.5 CEU
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
