October 04, 2008
Inclusion Through Good Online Design
Danishkadah is offering a free course on inclusion through web design:
Greetings from DANISHKADAH (an organization for empowerment of Persons with Disabilities)!We are working for promotion of web / information accessibility since many years. In past we just tried to raise awareness for the importance of web / information accessibility. Now we are taking a step forward and offering accessible web development course for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and for those working for/with Disabled People Organizations.
Objectives of this course are
1. Raising the awareness about web accessibility and equipping more people with knowledge of how to develope accessible website.
2. Capacity development of Human resources of DPOs and individual PWDs in web base networking and accessible Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
3. Enhancing the web base networking of DPOs, by enabling them to build their own accessible websites.
4. Offering a new IT skill to PWDs that may help in income generating.
5. To promote distance education, training course for outreach marginalized communities.Course Outline:
* 1. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
* 2. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
* 3. Accessibility issue when developing the websites
* 4. Validation your HTML and CSS
* 5. Localization and related accessibility issue
For more on the course see:
http://www.danishkadah.org.pk/Projects/training_AWeb/index.html
Posted by rollingrains at October 4, 2008 02:59 PM