To help you make your websites and web applications more accessible, we offer a range of open and in-house training courses. Courses are aimed at designers, content authors, developers as well as website owners, project managers and marketing personnel.
All training courses related to web accessibility, are run by the Web Access Team, part of RNIB Access Consultancy Services. For more information, please visit our
Web Access Center.
Training weeks
The RNIB Web Access Team is now running its open training courses in week long blocks. These training weeks will take place four to five times per year. This is for the benefit of delegates who wish to attend our open courses but are a significant distance from London. Having training weeks should save travel and accommodation costs for delegates who wish to attend more than one course. This is in contrast to how we have run our training courses in the past, with single day events being interspersed throughout the year.
We are also now running our training courses in other venues besides London. Currently, we have weeks planned for Liverpool in 2010. We hope to add to these venues in the future.
Upcoming dates
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23 - 27 November 2009 (London)
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15 - 19 February 2010 (Liverpool).
Open training courses
Demystifying accessibility
This full day course is designed to introduce website owners, commissioners, web designers, project managers and marketing staff to the many reasons for making websites accessible, including the principles and practices that make this possible. You'll learn about the various ways users with a disability access the web and take away tips and tricks to make your sites more accessible. Read the
full description of our Demystifying accessibility course.
Working through WCAG 2.0
This full day practical workshop provides information, techniques and resources to help you upgrade to the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). It identifies the main differences between this and the previous version of the guidelines and examines techniques that can help or hinder conformance. Read the
full description of our WCAG 2.0 course.
Accessibility - beyond the basics
This full day technical course enables website designers and developers to make informed best-practice choices with some of the more advanced techniques of accessible web design by looking at (X)HTML structure, web forms, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript. Read the
full description of our Accessibility - beyond the basics course.
Practical accessibility testing
This full day practical workshop guides you through web accessibility testing techniques, introducing tools and providing tangible examples. It focuses on testing carried out using dedicated testing tools, simple browser tests and some widely used assistive technology software, such as screen readers. The workshop illustrates both automated and manual testing and explains the differences between them. Read the
full description of our Practical accessibility testing course.
Accessible Rich Internet Applications - understand and use WAI-ARIA
This full day technical course introduces the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification. ARIA improves the accessibility of script heavy websites and web applications for assistive technology users. Learn about the problems ARIA sets out to solve, how it solves them and how to start using it. Read the full description of our Understand and use WAI-ARIA course.
How to book
To book a place on one of our open training courses, please fill out the
online open training booking form. Alternatively, please download and complete the
open training booking form (Word, 101kb) and email it to
webaccess@rnib.org.uk or contact us on
020 7391 2178.
A 10 per cent discount is available for delegates that book on more than one training course during the same training week. This 10 per cent discount applies to each course booked after the first one.
In-house training
Our specially tailored courses can be built around the needs of your team. We can cover any aspect of web accessibility including project planning, creating accessibility policies and statements, technical design and build of new or existing websites through to testing techniques. We'll help you apply the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines on your websites to make sure they work for both your users and you.
More information can be found on our
in-house training page. To book an in-house training course, please download and complete the
training quotation request form (Word, 35KB) and email it to
webaccess@rnib.org.uk. Alternatively, if you have any questions or simply want to talk through the options, please give us a call on
020 7391 2178.