Events
Calendar
SW Museum Skills Essentials: Digital accessibility- optimising your website
Jul
7
SW Museum Skills Essentials: Digital accessibility- optimising your website
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 5 AM - 6:30 AM EDT

It will cover: online accessibility requirements (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA) and look at practical applications for your own website.This includes: publishing accessible copy, images and accessibility statements. There will be practical tips and a guide for implementing in your museum.The WCAG guidelines have been put in place to make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity. Organisations should meet ‘level AA’ requirements as a minimum.

Share