Online WCAG by Example Workshop:
Demystifying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Composed of principles, guidelines, and testable success criteria, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is used to identify Web accessibility requirements. Countries, companies, and organizations rely on WCAG as an international recommendation. In short, WCAG is the de facto standard of Web Accessibility.

Written in precise language that can be hard to interpret and fully understand, its 4 principles, 13 guidelines, and 78 success criteria can be very intimidating at first glance. Plus, it is hard to understand the implications of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) if you don’t understand how people with disabilities use the Web.

Key takeaways:

• Learn each of the Level A and AA success criteria

• Discover how each Success Criterion affects people with disabilities

• Determine whether the designer, developer, or the content author is responsible for meeting each success criterion.

• Learn fundamental accessibility testing techniques and tools.

Who should attend?

• This online workshop is intended for all accessibility skill levels.

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and browser inspect tools is helpful but not required

• To fully participate in the examples, install at least one of the following testing aids in your browser. In order of preference:

• WebAim WAVE https://wave.webaim.org/

• Paul J. Adam’s Bookmarklets http://pauljadam.com/bookmarklets.html

• Testing tools not needed if you are familiar with browser inspect tools such as Chrome Dev Tools https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/

About WCAG

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a set of web accessibility guidelines developed through the W3C process. The WCAG documents explain how to make digital content more accessible to people. WCAG 2.0, was published in December 2008 and became an ISO standard, in October 2012. WCAG 2.1 became a W3C Recommendation in June 2018.

WCAG is published through the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a group composed of individuals and organizations around the world, working in cooperation to provide a single shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationall

WCAG by Example Workshop Schedule

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Start time is at 9:30 AM CT, New York - 10:30 AM, San Francisco - 7:30 AM, London - 3:30 PM

Schedule with times in Central Daylight Time (CDT):

• 9:30 AM CT: Morning Session

• 12:00 PM CT: Break

• 1:00 PM CT: Afternoon Session

• 3:30 PM CT: Workshop Ends

Meet Your Instructor: Becky Gibson, Knowbility's Sr. Accessibility Specialist

Becky is a recognized expert in the field of digital inclusion and enabling accessible solutions. Her extensive career as an Software Engineer and Accessibility Architect at IBM impacted products, customer strategy, and industry standards. She is passionate about making Web and mobile applications usable for people of all abilities.

She participated in the creation of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) and helped to develop and evangelize the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification. Becky is currently a member of the W3C Accessibility Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group and the Personalization Task Force. She creates blog posts, documentation, training materials, and speaks at conferences to further the mission of digital inclusion for all.

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