Welcome to ADTraining

Session Description

In this session, participants will learn about the importance of and how to create alternative text for images and graphics. It will focus on:

• What is alternative text and how it differs from an image description.
• How people with disabilities interact with alternative text within digital content
• How to write proper alternative text for images

Session Description

This course focuses on the much-needed fundamentals to ensure your documents are accessible to all users. This is important to bear in mind that opening up access to your agency’s documents increases readership and comprehension of important policies and guidelines.

Making your content accessible is a best practice and requirement as Australia has now adopted the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 as the standard for website accessibility. Participants in this course will gain an insight into how to make documents accessible to various disability groups.

To achieve this, technical tools and a variety of options are discussed in achieving specific accessibility goals. Hands-on practice and group discussions help reinforce the content learned in the theory sections of this course.

Session Description

This course focuses on the fundamentals you need to ensure your forms are accessible to all users. This is important bearing in mind that opening up access to your organization’s forms allows a person with disabilities to fill out electronic forms unassisted which is a huge advantage over print forms. An accessible electronic form can provide privacy, security, and independence to users with disabilities.

Making your form accessible is a best practice and requirement in many countries including, Australia. Participants in this course will gain an insight into how to make interactive forms, in varying formats, such as PDF and Microsoft Word, accessible to various disability groups.

To achieve this, technical tools and a variety of options are discussed in achieving specific accessibility goals. Hands-on practice and group discussions help reinforce the content learned in the theory sections of this course.

Session Description

Anyone who is contributing to a website, including content editor, developer, UX leads, and product managers need to be informed on how to abide by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This course provides practical resources to enable more accessible outcomes for digital products. It provides the basics required to ensure web accessibility standards are incorporated into the website design or re-development.

Participants will gain insight into what digital accessibility requires and the different requirements needed for various disability groups. To achieve this, technical tools and a variety of options are discussed in achieving specific accessibility goals.

Hands-on practice and group discussions help reinforce the content learned in the theory sections of this course.

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In this session, participants will learn best practices on how to incorporate IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity/equality, and accessibility) into various facets of an organization’s employee work cycle (job search, onboarding, employment, and departure).

Session Description

In this session, participants will build on their knowledge from the Basics of Excel Accessibility session, to create more complex Excel spreadsheets.