Accessible Websites For Managers
Making your company websites accessible
This free short course highlights the considerations involved in making your company websites "accessible". That is, usable by disabled potential clients and customers - and compliant with the international standard of the WCAG 2.0.
It covers the costs involved, the effort needed and the benefits, and how to achieve it - all from the management's point of view.
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Your Instructor
I am an Accessibility Consultant. Which means I advise companies on making their websites and mobile apps accessible, and compliant with the WCAG, the international standard of accessibility. I audit their websites for WCAG compliance, and advise and guide on all manner of questions that developers and managers have about the accessibility of their sites.
I wasn't always in accessibility. Prior to moving into the field I was a web designer and developer myself for 15 years, producing (like most developers) web content that certainly did not meet accessibility standards. And before that I was a designer and analyst/programmer using more traditional languages such as C++ (even, dare I say it, Cobol in my early days.)
The period in web development has given me one immense advantage - I can provide specific solutions to accessibility problems to a more detailed level that some of my colleagues in the field, and to date have had the pleasure of doing so for two global banks with multiple websites in the UK, the US, and various countries around he world. Also two of the UK's main telecoms networks, a national travel company, a US legal business, and various others. It has also enabled me to provide these courses, providing information to IT developers in the form they need in their everyday work, using the knowledge I gained of how web developers work and think while one myself.
So I hope all of you who kindly choose to study using my courses will find them helpful an instructive, and interesting as well.