Course Outline

I. Accessibility. What it is and what problems are most commonly associated with it.

1. What is accessibility?;

2. Are people with disabilities rare?;

3. Who is a person with a disability?;

4. People with motor function impairments;

5. People with cognitive and intellectual impairments;

6. People with hearing impairments;

7. People with visual impairments;

8. Accessibility is not only for people with disabilities;

9. Groups with disabilities are not homogeneous;

10. What problems most commonly occur in ensuring accessibility?

11. A person with a disability and service at an office: how to serve people with disabilities.

II. Digital Accessibility and the WCAG Standard

1. What is digital accessibility?

2. Who sets the standards for digital accessibility?

3. WCAG as the foundation of accessibility

4. WCAG documents

5. The division of WCAG guidelines

6. WCAG standard

7. Since when has accessibility been mandatory?

8. Technical and organizational requirements for digital accessibility of websites according to WCAG 

a) Accessibility principles

b) 78 success criteria

c) Levels of success criteria – minimum, recommended, comfortable

d) 17 new success criteria according to WCAG

e) Backward compatibility of WCAG 

9. The Act of April 4, 2019 on the digital accessibility of websites and the WCAG standard 

- Digital accessibility requirements according to the annex to the act

a) 4 principles, 13 guidelines, 49 success criteria

b) Perceivability, operability, understandability, and robustness – what do they mean for the entity?

• Principle 1: Perceivability – how to implement it?

• Principle 2: Operability

• Principle 3: Understandability

• Principle 4: Robustness

c) Success criteria at the minimum (A) and recommended (AA) levels – how should they be implemented and to what extent?

10. Accessibility Statement

a) How to prepare an accessibility statement? Element components of the accessibility statement

b) Placement of the accessibility statement

c) Updating the accessibility statement

11. Technical requirements for web services in accordance with the annex to the Act on digital accessibility of websites and guidelines from the competent minister for informatization

a) Alternative text

b) Accessible players for people with disabilities

c) Transcripts, subtitles, audio descriptions

d) Headings and proper hierarchy

e) Tables as a structural element of the page – can they be used?

f) Navigation mechanisms

g) Navigation order and reading sequence

Information architectureElement navigation elements and messages

j) Links

k) Automatic playback of pages

l) Content contrast

m) Contrast switch button

n) Typography, contrasts, and readability

o) Responsiveness

p) Dynamic content changes

q) Form fields and labels

r) CAPTCHA – can or cannot?

s) Compliance with standards HTML

12. Practical issues of digital accessibility

a) Is it necessary to publish document scans?

b) Tender documentation and digital accessibility

c) Scientific and technical publications and digital accessibility

d) What to do with wealth declarations in the context of digital accessibility?

e) Content produced by an external entity and digital accessibility – in which cases must it be digitally accessible, and in which not?

f) Is a high-contrast version of a website necessary?

g) Audio description and digital accessibility

h) Digital accessibility and social media platforms

i) How to ensure digital accessibility in contracts and public procurement?

j) Fonts – which ones?

k) Keyboard navigation service support

l) Navigation within the website 4

m) Extended captions – how to prepare them

n) PJM - Sign language translator – requirement or best practice?

o) Justification of content – why not?

p) Simple language – when to use and what does it mean?

q) Information in easy-to-read text – ETR (Easy to read) – when do we apply it?

r) Machine-readable text – when do we apply it?

s) What does a government digital accessibility audit report mean, and what should be done with it?

13. Checking Digital Accessibility

a) Methods for finding errors and testing the digital accessibility of websites

b) How to find basic digital accessibility errors on a website?

c) How to independently test the digital accessibility of a website?

Requirements

Course attendees:

• All individuals interested in the above topic;

• Accessibility specialists.

 7 Hours

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