Web Accessibility

1 Introduction

This course organizes and presents course material to enable students to learn by themselves.

This course is composed of the following lessons:

1. Introduction: Introduction to the content and structure of the course
2. Disability: Definition of disability and e-accessibility
3. Disability - Exercises: Exercises and questions about disability
4. Why are websites developed with poor accessibility?: Reasons of developers don't paying attention to web accessibility
5. Assistive Technologies: Definition of assistive technology
6. Assistive Technologies - Examples: Examples of assistive technologies
7. Assistive Technologies - Exercises: Exercises and questions about assistive technologies
8. Accessible Version: To offer an alternative only-text version is not a good practice
9. Accessible Version - Exercises: Exercises and questions about offering an accesible version
10. WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
11. HTML Validation: Validation of HTML code to check that it is correct and has no errors
12. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Comparisson of web accessibility evaluation tools
13. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - Exercises: Exercises and questions about web accessibility evaluation tools
14. Most Problematic Items: Results of WebAIM's Screen Reader User Survey #4
15. CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
16. CAPTCHAs - Exercises: Exercises and questions about captchas
17. Adobe Flash: Adoble Flash doesn't provide a good accessibility support and it's better to avoid it
18. Links: Problems related to links
19. Links - Exercises: Exercises and questions about links
20. Images and Graphs: Problems related to images and graphs
21. Images and Graphs - Exercises: Exercises and questions about images, graphs, and alternative text
22. Headings: Problems related to headings
23. Headings - Exercises: Exercises and questions about headings
24. Colours: Problems related to colours
25. Colours - Exercises: Exercises and questions about colours
26. Forms: Problems related to links
27. Forms - Exercises: Exercises and questions about forms
28. Forms - Solution: Solution to the excercise about forms
29. Text: Problems related to text
30. Tables: Problems related to tables
31. Tables Exercises: Exercises and questions about tables
32. Review Exercise: Review Exercise
33. Responsive Design: Responsive web design adapts the layout of a web page to the viewing environment
34. Responsive Design - Exercises: Exercises and questions about responsive design
35. Responsive Design - Solution: Solution of the exercise about responsive design
36. Usability - Project: Usability project to get the final mark and the certificate
37. Accessibility - Project: Accessibility project to get the final mark and the certificate
38. Tools: Tools, such as validators, frameworks, boilerplates, etc.