Overview
Most local council websites contain downloadable documents in Word or PDF format. These serve a wide range of purposes from records of council meetings to local area information or application/request forms.
Under the Public Sector Website Accessibility legislation, these forms need to meet accessibility standards.
This 1.5-hour webinar will take you through the basics of how to:
- Check your own Word documents for accessibility
- Recognise problems (and sort them!)
- Turn an accessible Word document into an accessible PDF document
Key points that will be covered in this webinar include:
- How disabled people use Word documents
- Exporting accessible Word documents to PDF format
- How disabled people use PDF documents
- Checking your PDF accessibility
- Common accessibility failures and how to fix them (heading styles, layouts, links, images, tables, fonts and colours)
Date
Tuesday 29 April, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Price
Members: £45 + VAT
Non-Members: £50 + VAT
CPD points
Claim 1 CPD point for attending this webinar!
Joining instructions will be sent to you 3 weeks before the event (please check your spam inbox) and your invoice will be sent before the event. We advise that, on receipt of the joining instructions, you are liable for any fees incurred in order to attend the event.
About the Trainer
Alistair McNaught was a senior advisor at the Jisc TechDis service (2004-14). He created or co-created Staff Training Packs in accessible practice, Senior Manager Briefings and the Accessibility Essential resources. More recently he led the development of Jisc’s Accessibility Snapshot service (used by nearly 60 universities and colleges). His accessibility work with academic library services won a national award and was shortlisted for an international award for excellence. The University of Kent won a 2018 Times Higher Award for an inclusion project Alistair helped steer.
Alistair is a current member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology and a co-chair of the Digital Accessibility Working Group, liaising between the FE/HE sector and Government Digital Services to ensure official guidance is appropriate to the real world context.
He presents on accessibility at national and international events and is a very experienced online trainer and presenter.
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SLCC is always keen to respond to members’ needs for training. If you would like to register an interest in having a particular course delivered via webinar or in your region, please let us know.
