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Digital Accessibility

Enabling Participation in the Information Society

Mike Wald, Manuel León, Kate Dickens, Wq Chen, Gerhard Weber, E.A. Draffan, Neil Rogers, Saber Heni, Abi James, Peter Heumader [EDUCATOR], Jenny Darzentas (Educator), John Gilligan [EDUCATOR], and Gottfried Zimmermann

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Topics Covered

  • What is digital accessibility?
  • Digital accessibility and business
  • Relationship between ‘usability’, ‘accessibility’ and ‘user experience’
  • Challenges and barriers met by disabled people
  • Video and audio barriers and subtitles, captioning and audio description
  • Desktop, laptop, mobile and self-service terminal accessibility
  • Creating, checking and evaluating document, web and self-service terminal accessibility
  • Input and output devices e.g. screen reader, Braille, switch access technologies
  • Digital and web accessibility guidelines, standards and principles of Universal Design
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Time
15 hours
Via
FutureLearn
Institutions
University of Southampton
MOOCAP
Instructors
Mike Wald
Manuel León
Kate Dickens
Wq Chen
Gerhard Weber
E.A. Draffan
Neil Rogers
Saber Heni
Abi James
Peter Heumader [EDUCATOR]
Jenny Darzentas (Educator)
John Gilligan [EDUCATOR]
Gottfried Zimmermann
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