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Writing for Accessibility
Description:
"If you don’t design for accessibility, it’s like saying to every fifth person who walks in your door, 'I don’t really want your business.'" – Bert Floyd, Team Lead of Assistive Technologies, TD Bank, Canada
Do you want to expand your reach to potential customers, grow your business and have a positive impact on your audience? The solution is simple: design an experience to meet everyone’s needs, including those with disabilities. In other words, write for accessibility.
Whether you’re writing an email, building a website, creating a slide deck or posting a video, it’s essential to make that communication open and understandable to individuals with a varying range of abilities. This course will introduce and provide opportunities to exercise the practice of writing for accessibility, while giving you ready-to-implement tools and techniques to make your content accessible to a wider audience.
Who Should Enroll:
- Managers and supervisors at all levels
- Marketers, communicators and writers
- Web designers and graphic designers
- Anyone who desires to be inclusive in their communication strategies
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the need for and benefits of making communication accessible
- Familiarity with accessibility techniques and tools
- Gain proficiency in making multiple document-types accessible
- Discover multiple solutions to common access problems
Continuing Education Hours:
Continuing Education Units:
.65
CEUs
Applies Towards Certificates:
Additional Information:
In order to frame the classroom discussions, students will be asked to read two to three short documents prior to the class start date and to bring a laptop, along with a Word document, slide deck or pdf document to class, which you will use to practice what you’ve learned.
Applies Towards Certificates
Communication Skills for Professionals Certificate Program
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