{"id":1678,"date":"2023-11-20T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=1678"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:52:14","slug":"accessibility-training-workshops","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/event\/accessibility-training-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Training Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>The training is divided into six modules:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/accessibility-training\/module-1-about-accessibility\/\">About Accessibility<\/a>: an introduction to web accessibility and its importance. This module also gives a brief overview of the relation between disability and accessibility, as well as approaches to accessibility strategy, regulations, and guidelines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/accessibility-training\/module-2-text\/\">Text<\/a>: how to make text on your website accessible. Topics include accessible hyperlinks, proper heading use, appropriate paragraph length and breaks, formatting tips, and page titles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/accessibility-training\/module-3-images\/\">Images<\/a>: making images accessible. Topics include how to properly use alt text (including with linked images), and avoiding text in images.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/accessibility-training\/module-4-tables\/\">Tables<\/a>: the proper use of tables, as well as the importance of using table headers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/accessibility-training\/module-5-videos\/\">Videos:<\/a>&nbsp;this module covers videos, including captioning, transcripts, and the importance of video hosting services that allow video navigation using keyboard functions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webworkshops\/accessibility-training\/accessibility-checklist\/\">Accessibility Checklist<\/a>: this final module consists of a checklist you can use to review your website for accessibility.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":592,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-1678","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-11-21 00:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-11-21 13:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"virtual","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"teams","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1678\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cutheme-docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}