Do you understand Web Accessibility?
16:23, 1 November 2010
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Online accessibility is not just for people with disabilities. Research has shown that more than two out of three technology users benefit from accessible design. Additionally, the same techniques used to enable assistive technologies often facilitate access to web sites by mobile phones and other handheld devices.If you are a web developer, web designer, IT manager, IT policy developer, IT administrator, programmer, anyone with IT responsibilities, an IT student or a manager of any of these folks, you need to reserve your place now at the AccessU West training conference in San Jose, Jan. 10-12!
Some big announcements regarding the AccessU West training conference in San Jose, Jan. 10-12!
- Dennis Lembrée will keynote the event! Lembrée is nationally-known web site professional and code expert who specializes in web standards, accessibility, and usability.
- Most of the courses have been announced! You can learn learn how accessibility ties into your usability goals, learn "Real World Accessibility for HTML5, CSS3 and ARIA, learn how to build innovative AND accessible websites using CMS: Drupal and WordPress, find out if your company's website complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and if your company is ready for new DOJ regulations
- Instructors include Whitney Quesenbery, Derek Featherstone and Lainey Feingold and Kevin Miller.
Check out these photos from past AccessU events. And don’t delay — sign up so you can learn from top experts and get on the cutting edge of compliant, universal design. It's something your company needs, and it's something that increases your value to any employer!
With AccessU West's general registration you can pick and choose from classes in three suggested tracks. Or, you can pick just one track to concentrate on:
- The Design/Development Track: Make it Accessible, for people creating content, software, web sites and multimedia. All the how-to knowledge you need to be sure that people with disabilities can use what you create and to make accessibility part of your design strategy.
- The Policy and Administration Track: Set the Direction, for administrators, managers and policy makers. Know the laws, and learn how to set up a program that works for your company and your team
- Specialized Usability Track: Make it Usable, for people creating or evaluating technology – Learn how to make sure that your websites and software are usable by people with disabilities.
This event is being organized by Knowbility.org, a nonprofit I've long been associated with and feel quite passionate about -- they are doing great work, and AccessU West is but one example of that great work. Knowbility's mission is to ensure barrier-free IT - supporting the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology. Knowbility's award-winning programs and services are designed to provide universally-available, barrier-free information technology solutions that help the blind visualize the world around them, help the deaf communicate with the hearing world, and help those with mobility impairments “travel” via the Internet.
Knowbility was recently featured on NPR’s On the Media with Bob Garfield
Complete information about this conference:
http://www.knowbility.org/accessu-west/PLEASE REBLOG THIS!
