Design and creation of accessible websites for people with functional diversity - Alumni Training Capsule

Alumni EINA is organising the following training capsule session for the next April:

Design and creation of accessible websites for people with functional diversity

• Rubén Alcaraz
• Friday 26 April 2019, from 4 pm to 8 pm
• EINA
• Registration.
  You will need a university identification number (NIU/NIA) and a password. If you are not an EINA student yet, you can obtain them here.

The course will focus on the analysis of international web accessibility guidelines, adopted as ISO and UNE standards, and on the conformity criteria that websites must meet to certify the minimum level of accessibility required. These criteria include both aspects related to the design of interfaces and their usability, and technical criteria related to their coding and programming.

Aims

• To understand and get to know how people with different disability types access websites.
• To get to know the accessibility criteria that a website must fulfil for it to be considered accessible.
• To learn technical and design solutions to traditional problems of accessibility.
• To get to know the main tools and methodologies for the creation and auditing of accessible websites.

Programme

• What is web accessibility?
• Types of disability and forms of interaction and access on the web.
• Applicable legislation and regulations.
• Accessibility of content, browsing, interaction and design.
• SEO and accessibility: common aspects.
• Tools and methodologies for the creation and evaluation of accessible websites.

Recommendations
We recommend that participants should have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Rubén Alcaraz is a Senior Technician in Web Applications Development, a Diploma-holder in Library Science and Documentation (Barcelona University), with a Master’s Degree in Digital Content Management (Barcelona University/Pompeu Fabra University) with work on the accessibility of interactive digital maps. He is currently studying for a doctorate on the doctoral programme in Information Engineering and Technology at Lleida University, with a thesis on the accessibility of statistical graphs. He is an associate lecturer at Barcelona University (Bachelor’s Degree in Information and Documentation and Master’s Degree in Digital Content Management), Pompeu Fabra University (Master’s Degree in Digital Documentation, Master’s Degree in Search Engines and Master’s Degree in UX: usability and user experience), and at EINA (Postgraduate Programme in Web Design and MURAD). Member of the Adaptabit Research Group at Barcelona University, working on research into digital accessibility in teaching, research and teaching innovation. He has done consultancy work related to web accessibility for various public administrations.

More information: alumni@eina.cat