Making websites accessible is extremely important but information is scarce and auditing your site often falls by the wayside. This course will give you all the skills you need to audit and fix accessibility issues on any project!

Some Key Takeaways!

By participating along with us in the workshop, you'll learn:

Understand how accessibility fits into digital design and development
Learn how screen readers and other assistive technologies work
Gain skills to debug code for accessibility and identify issues in design
Learn the building blocks of accessible interactive UIs with HTML, ARIA, and keyboard focus management

Your (Awesome) Instructor

Marcy Sutton Todd

Marcy Sutton Todd is a Senior Frontend React Engineer at Principle Studios, a strategic consultancy and digital product shop. In her 15+ year career Marcy has worked as an accessibility engineering consultant, taught workshops, led the Learning team at Gatsby, worked on the axe-core and Angular frameworks, and much more. Marcy’s focus on access and user experience was recognized by O’Reilly in 2016 with a Web Platform Award. When away from the keyboard, Marcy can be found caring for her family, exploring mountains, lifting heavy weights, and cooking yummy food.

Spend the Day Immersed With a Leading Accessibility Expert

Workshop Details

Learn how to make your websites and web applications accessible to a wider audience. Use accessibility debugging techniques to catch issues while developing. Make sure your website works well with Assistive Technologies and explore using HTML, ARIA, and JavaScript to make even the most complex user interfaces more accessible!

Daily Schedule

Spend the day learning how to make your websites and web applications accessible to a wider audience.

9:30AM
Introduction
10:00AM
Screen readers
11:00AM
Accessibility debugging
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
Accessible HTML
2:00PM
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
2:30PM
Keyboard focus management
3:00PM
Visual considerations
4:00PM
Wrap-up

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Interact with the Instructor - Online & In-Person

Get Your Questions Answered • Code Along with the Class • Classroom Format

Is This Workshop for Me?

Summary

This workshop is intended for developers looking to get started with web accessibility.

Any Prerequisites?

Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be helpful.

Event Details

What

One Full Day Workshop Session

Replay Videos (available immediately)

When

December 13, 2023 - 9:30am to 5:30pm Central Standard Time

Where

Option 1: Attend online on our full HD live stream

Option 2: Attend in-person at HQ in Minneapolis, MN

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