Web Accessibility Training

Web accessibility ensures that all people can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web.

Web accessibility standards are important for users who may have disabilities, and as our population ages, the importance of web accessibility continues to grow. In addition to making smart business sense, ensuring that you can reach any customer who comes across your website, state and federal laws mandating web accessibility for government agencies and organizations that receive government funding have recently been enacted.

In 2003, New Horizons of Austin began working with Knowbility, a nationally recognized non-profit agency dedicated to supporting the independence of children and adults with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology. Through this partnership, we are able to offer a suite of Web Accessibility training classes to our private and public clients.

Available Courses

Open-enrollment courses are currently only available through our Austin Center. Contact us for class dates or to find out about dedicated training events.

Accessibility 101
Introduction to access issues in the design of web sites. Includes and overview of industry accepted guidelines and standards, hands-on experience with screen reading software, and information about why good design is accessible design. >>Outline

Accessibility Testing Tools
There are many online tools - several are free - to help you measure if you are meeting accessibility standards. This class takes you through the best of them. Bring web pages that you would like to test and we will take you through a practical testing plan and compare results. >>Outline

Intro to Accessible Cascading Style Sheets
Learn the backbone of designing with cascading style sheets in order to format web pages and separate presentation from content to provide the greatest accessibility for all audiences. >>Outline

Accessible PDFs
Adobe' s Acrobat software has increased their capacity for accessibility in creating PDF files, but it can be very tricky. Explore the newest version Adobe Acrobat and learn how to properly mark up Adobe Portable Document Format pages with accessible code, allowing PDFs to be used by many assistive technologies and ensuring that the documents meet accessibility mandates. >>Outline

Accessible IT Project Management
How do you work accessibility planning and testing into overall project design and development? Take this class to learn step-by-step methods that will assure that your end product not only meets standards but documents compliance. >>Outline