Overview of Vision impairments - Blindness
Modules
Below is a list of all modules available through our elearning programme:
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Digital Accessibility Awareness
Introducing Assistive Technologies
Assistive Technologies Advanced
HTML Techniques for Accesibility Development
Accessible Content Authoring
Designing for Accessible User Experience
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
Additional Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1)
Developing for Native Mobile Accessibility
Accessibility Evaluation and Methodology
Demo - Introducing Accessibility
Accessible Content Authoring (Updated)
Designing for an Accessible User Experience (Updated)
Brief introductions to HTML and WCAG 2.1 *
Legal Awareness (New - QA)
Extra Media
Topics
Below is a list of all topics within this module:
Information
Users who are blind, the barriers they face daily, and the software used to overcome those barriers are covered in this topic. We will learn about screen readers and how they interact with websites, how using tables can help this user group, and the best way to present information to blind users.
This topic has an examination that must be taken in order to complete a certification with this topic as part of its course.
Lessons
The following lessons are available in this elearning topic:
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Vision impairments - Blindness
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Persona
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Software used to overcome blindness
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Interesting information about blind users
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Screen Readers and document order
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Don’t use CSS for meaningful content
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Hiding content from the user
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Include a title for Every Page
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Conveying information with a page title
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Defining the language of a page
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Designing with landmarks
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Consistent headings
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Main Content Hierarchy
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Identifying page purpose and task
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Organise with Paginated Views
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Representing data in tables
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Include caption with tables
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Table Headers
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Grouping Header Associations
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Table Summary
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Layout Tables
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Frame Titles and iFrame titles
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Strong and EM