Building Accessible Web Sites

Hours: 8 / Access Length: 3 Weeks / Delivery: Monthly, Mentor Supported
Retail Price: $250.00

Course Overview:

Create pages that are section 508 compliant. Students will learn about page layout, HTML options, tag attributes and other requirements that will help to make their pages accessible to all users. Students will need to download a trial version of a screen reader so they can experience how their pages are "viewed" by the visually impaired.

ATTENTION:

This course has specific fixed start and end dates. All of the start dates begin on a Wednesday. If you want to take this course, please make certain that you choose a date for a course that has not already started. Please see dates below.

Since textbook(s) are required for this course, students must realize that there needs to be a proper amount of time to allow for the textbook(s) to be shipped to them.  ProTrain does not guarantee that a student’s textbook(s) will arrive by the time a course is scheduled to begin (Normal shipping time can take up to 10 to 15 business days). There are some courses that require a book version, please speak with your Training Assessment Manager to confirm if you need to choose a specific version for this course. 

Students are highly encouraged to enroll in a course as early as possible to preclude a textbook delay, causing a possible request for an extension later on.

This course also has a Student Orientation Online Course to help you learn to navigate throughout your online course. The course is called Start Learning Online Right. Now.  Upon registration, we encourage you to take the Start Learning Online Right. Now. orientation when beginning your course to help you better understand the online course and how it is laid out.  Students who do this orientation always do better throughout the entire process.

Available Course Dates:

Start Date              End Date

05/07/2014            05/28/2014 
06/04/2014            06/25/2014 
07/02/2014            07/23/2014 
07/30/2014            08/20/2014 
08/27/2014            09/17/2014 
09/24/2014            10/15/2014 
10/22/2014            11/12/2014 
11/19/2014            12/10/2014 

Course Outline:

• Students will identify accessibility concerns for building web pages.
• Students will use various assistive technologies to view their web pages.
• Students will identify guidelines for building accessible web sites.
• Students will identify sources of information on website accessibility.

All necessary materials are included.

System Requirements:

• Cable and DSL internet connections are recommended for the best experience.

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 2 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone (Webinar / Live Online sessions)

• Microsoft Windows 7 or 10 (Home, Pro)
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is denoted in the above course outline.