Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society
University of Southampton and MOOCAP
This online course explored how a better understanding of users' needs can enable the development of technologies that are accessible and provide a more inclusive environment
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Mike Wald
University of Southampton
E.A. Draffan
University of Southampton
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the challenges and barriers met by disabled people in everyday life
- Describe the relationship between ‘usability’, ‘accessibility’ and ‘user experience’
- Identify a range of technologies that can help make desktops, laptops and mobile devices accessible e.g. screen readers, switch access technologies, speech input and braille input
- Explore how to create video captions and experience screen reader technology
- Apply Accessibility Guidelines in creating accessible documents and web content
- Use document and web accessibility audits and testing to identify violations of accessibility guidelines
Syllabus
- What is digital accessibility?
- Digital accessibility and business
- Relationship between ‘usability’, ‘accessibility’ and ‘user experience’
- Challenges and barriers met by disabled people
- Video and audio barriers and subtitles, captioning and audio description
- Desktop, laptop, mobile and self-service terminal accessibility
- Creating, checking and evaluating document, web and self-service terminal accessibility
- Input and output devices e.g. screen reader, Braille, switch access technologies
- Digital and web accessibility guidelines, standards and principles of Universal Design
Issued on 13th March 2017
The person named on this certificate has completed the activities in the transcript above. For more information about Certificates of Achievement and the effort required to become eligible, visit futurelearn.com/proof-of-learning/certificate-of-achievement.
This certificate represents proof of learning. It is not a formal qualification, degree, or part of a degree.
Free online course: