Workshops
Do you want to ensure that your product or service is accessible, and also remains accessible? Then you should include accessibility as an integral part of your design and developement processes. The best basis for that is to build up accessibility awareness and competence in your team.
Different roles in a team have different information needs. There are some basics about user needs and accessibility fundamentals that will be useful knowledge for all. Our workshops also adress specific roles, such as the role of content author and editor, interface and interaction designer, developer, or project lead. We can discuss the most suitable format and define one or several workshops for you and your team. Our workshops are often held online, using Zoom or another conferencing platform of your choice. Other workshops are held on site.
Usually, we offer half-day or full-day workshops. You will receive an individual offer that suits your needs.
Accessibility - the fundamentals
In this workshop we show what digital accessibility means in practice, how inaccessible content affects users with different abilities, and how good accessibility can make content usable for all. We cober leagal requirements and build empathy and awareness. Once people understand why accessibility is so critical, they will often be highly motivated to reflect it in their tasks, and proud to build fully accessible products that can be used and enjoyed by all.
Authors and editors
Accessibility is not just as task for designers and devlopers. It is also important in authoring, editing, and implementing web content in a content management system. In this workshop, we show you how web authors and editors can create accessible and usable content and define a sustainable process. You learn how to structure textual content, how to write good alternative text for images and graphics, and how to tackle video und audio as web content. We give examples and answer your particular questions.
Accessibility know-how for the team
Accessibility is team work. If you know the requirements of the basic standards, WCAG and EN 301 549, you can take these into account and avoid expensive remediation work later on. This workshop is a deep dive into all aspects of technical implementation. Based on our experience, we help the entire team build up basic web accessibility competence with a practical focus. This is usually an interactive process: We explain a requirement, and that raises questions about particular practical issues in your work context that are then discussed in the team. We show best-practice implementations that often spark new ideas as to how content can be improved. The workshop covers all relevant requirements of WCAG and EN 301 549 (e.g. semantics, keyboard accessibility, WAI-ARIA and interactive widgets, forms, colour and contrast, as well as graphics and multimedia). Depending how much you will start talking to each other in such a workshop, it may take a full day or a couple of days.
Hands-on workshop
The hands-on workshop for implementation teams dives deep into the practice of (accessible) development and takes your own projects as a starting point. Starting with your own developement has the advantage that you exactly know the technical context and can implement improvements right on. You can point us to a site that you have recently developed or that is under development. We run a spot check on your content before the workshop and identify and document any shortcomings. We present the results in the workshop and then discuss how matters can or should be improved. (Note: The result of the spot check is not a full conformance test).
Test results workshop
When we run a BIK BITV conformance test for a website or web application, the test will often reveal a number of minor or major issues. These are identified and documented in the BIK test report, together with recommendations for remediation and references to best practice examples. Our test results workshop is designed to present and explain the findings of the BIK BITV test in more detail and in an interactive way. We discuss the accessibility issues found, and advise on the best way forward. We can also address usability issues that are not covered by accessibility requirements, but often impact the ease of use of the site. We act as your sparring partner to prioritise remedial work, find alternative solutions to barriers, or develop more accessible and usable work flows.
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