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I. Accessibility: What It Is and the Most Commonly Associated Challenges

1. What is accessibility?;

2. Are people with disabilities a rare group?;

3. Who is a person with a disability?;

4. People with motor function impairments;

5. People with cognitive and intellectual disabilities;

6. People with hearing impairments;

7. People with visual impairments;

8. Accessibility is not only about people with disabilities;

9. Disability groups are not homogeneous;

10. What are the most common challenges in ensuring accessibility?;

11. People with disabilities and service in public offices: How to serve individuals with disabilities.

II. Digital Accessibility and the WCAG Standard

1. What is digital accessibility?;

2. Who sets digital accessibility standards?;

3. WCAG as the foundation of accessibility

4. WCAG documentation

5. Classification of WCAG guidelines

6. The WCAG standard

7. Since when has accessibility been mandatory?;

8. Technical and organizational requirements for digital accessibility of websites according to WCAG

a) Principles of accessibility

b) 78 success criteria

c) Levels of success criteria – minimum, recommended, comfortable

d) 17 new success criteria under WCAG

e) WCAG backward compatibility

9. The Act of April 4, 2019 on Digital Accessibility of Websites and the WCAG standard

– Digital accessibility requirements according to the Act's annex

a) 4 principles, 13 guidelines, 49 success criteria

b) Perceivability, operability, understandability, and compatibility – What do they mean for an organization?;

• Principle 1: Perceivability – How to implement it?;

• Principle 2: Operability

• Principle 3: Understandability

• Principle 4: Robustness

c) Success criteria at the minimum (A) and recommended (AA) levels – How to implement and to what extent?;

10. Accessibility Statement

a) How to prepare an accessibility statement? Components of an accessibility statement

b) Placement of the accessibility statement

c) Updating the accessibility statement

11. Technical requirements for websites aligned with the annex to the Act on Digital Accessibility of Websites and the guidelines of the Minister responsible for informatization

a) Alternative text

b) Accessible media players for people with disabilities

c) Transcripts, subtitles, audio descriptions

d) Headings and proper hierarchy

e) Tables as a structural element of a page – Can they be used?;

f) Navigation mechanisms

g) Order of navigation and reading

h) Information architecture

i) Navigation elements and messages

j) Links

k) Automatic page playback

l) Content contrast

m) Button to switch to a high-contrast version

n) Text typography and contrast for readability

o) Responsiveness

p) Dynamic content changes

q) Form fields and labels

r) CAPTCHA – Allowed or not?;

s) Compliance with HTML standards

12. Practical Aspects of Digital Accessibility

a) Is it necessary to publish document scans?;

b) Tender documentation and digital accessibility

c) Scientific and technical publications and digital accessibility

d) What to do with asset declarations in the context of digital accessibility?;

e) Content created by external entities and digital accessibility – In which cases must it be digitally accessible, and in which not?;

f) Is a high-contrast version of a website necessary?;

g) Audio descriptions and digital accessibility

h) Digital accessibility and social media platforms

i) How to ensure digital accessibility in contracts and public procurement?;

j) Fonts – Which ones?;

k) Keyboard navigation of the website

l) Website navigation 4

m) Extended subtitles – How to prepare them?;

n) PJM – Sign language interpreter – A requirement or best practice?;

o) Justified text – Why not?;

p) Plain language – When to use and what does it mean?;

q) Information in easy-to-read text – ETR (Easy to Read) – When to use it?;

r) Machine-readable text – When to use it?;

s) What does the report from the Government Audit of Digital Accessibility mean, and what should be done with it?;

13. Checking Digital Accessibility

a) Methods for identifying errors and testing digital accessibility of websites

b) How to find basic digital accessibility errors on a website?;

c) How to independently test the digital accessibility of a website?;

Requirements

Target Audience:

• All individuals interested in the above topic;

• Accessibility specialists.

 7 Hours

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