Knowbility Learning

Overview

This course dives into the current state of accessibility in WordPress.  It looks at WordPress’ out-of-the-box accessibility features and examines over a dozen of its most common accessibility issues. Students will learn how to tackle WordPress theme management and accessibility plugins to include better accessibility support and understand how WordPress handles the creation of accessible content - including management of automated and manual testing of your sites.

As an open-source content management system, WordPress is a practical and popular platform to manage your organization’s digital presence or promote your organization’s goals. While it has many accessibility features , many changes can happen in design, development, and content entry that hinder rather than help with accessibility.

What You Need to Bring With You:

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript
• Familiarity with WordPress and PHP
• Working knowledge of digital accessibility

This is a step-by-step course covering the tools and techniques used to make PDF documents as accessible as they can be, especially for people who rely on screen readers and other assistive technologies.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Export common documents to PDF for easier remediation
• Properly tag PDF documents for accessibility
• Tag multi-language documents, logical reading order, expansion text
• Edit tags, links, URLs, images, lists, tables, bookmarks, page labels, and more

What You Need to Bring With You:

• Access to Adobe Acrobat DC Pro
• Basic HTML knowledge (helpful but not required)
• An internet connection while taking the class to view and listen to the videos

Overview of requirements and best practice to make the most of the AIR opportunity. The course is meant to do the following:

1. Orient participating NPOs, artists, musicians, or students groups to program structure, timeline, and requirements.

2. Set expectations for what your tech team is committed and not committed to do 

3. Help you understand what your commitment is to your tech team

4. Provide templates for you to provide web content for your team

5. Plan for accessible site maintenance after the competition ends.

You will need an enrollment key to enroll for the course.  If you have questions, please email us at  air@knowbility.org.

Enrollment Process:

• Select "Log in" in the upper right menu.
• If necessary, select "Create new account" and fill out the enrollment form. You will receive an email asking you to authenticate your email address.
• Once logged in, select "AIR Training".
• You will need to enter the enrollment key provided to your team.

Students need inclusive and accessible learning environments and materials to be successful. Knowbility's K12 Access Summit 2022 is a three-day virtual conference, held July 26-28, 2022, to help districts, schools, and teams learn how considering accessibility in the classroom can improve student engagement and achievement. K12 Access Summit is an opportunity for participants to explore best practices in creating inclusive learning environments.

K12 Access Summit is designed to help your school and district teams develop the systems and networks needed to ensure inclusive and accessible learning opportunities for students. Session Topics include:

• Creating accessible materials and documents
• Purchasing materials and equipment for accessibility
• District website maintenance and procedures
• How current assistive technology interacts with classroom materials
• Implementation of effective professional development on assistive technology and accessibility

View the full schedule for K12 Access Summit 2022 to view all session information.

These are the archived videos from the AccessU Online conference from May 2019 in Austin, Texas.

Videos are available for unlimited replay to all attendees who purchased tickets to the event.

If you did not attend but would like to purchase access to these videos, please email us at knowbility@knowbility.org. We will respond with instructions on how to submit your secure payment to gain access.