VCSE Training: Making your website digitally accessible

This training will be delivered online via Zoom. Joining details will be emailed to you before the event. We won’t be recording the workshop but slides will be made available to delegates. Zoom automated captions will be used.

Content:

Adi Latif, Accessibility Consultant, AbilityNet, IAAP Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (pronouns: he, him, his) will be delivering this workshop on why making your website digitally accessible is essential for your organisation.

If you haven’t considered digital accessibility then disabled people will be struggling to use your website or app. Disabled people make up 20% of the population.

In this illuminating and entertaining session Adi Latif will take you on a journey where you will experience what websites and apps are like from a disabled person’s perspective. The world of digital accessibility will be demystified 1 slide at a time and you will leave with a profound feeling of an hour well spent.

The learning will include:

• A profound understanding of why making digital product and services accessible is great for your business and society as a whole
• First-hand experience of seeing a disabled person navigate a good and a bad digital experience
• Understanding the business case for accessibility and inclusive design
• Top tips on how to get started

There will be an opportunity for a Q&A session.

Eligibility:

The training is free and open to VCSE sector organisations based and operating in York. Members of Indie York and the High St Retail Forum are also welcome to attend.

Contact details:

This training is supported by The National Lottery Community Fund. For more information about this training, please contact Jane Granville, Funding and Development Officer, York CVS on: jane.granville@yorkcvs.org.uk.

Venue:

The training will take place at the Priory Street Centre in York. Please visit our dedicated website to find out more about the Centre, including a our Accessibility Guide.

This training is being held in partnership with York Disbiltity Rights Forum and is supported by The National Lottery Community Fund.

IMAGE: Laptop on a table with the word website and arrows on teh screen. To the left of the laptop are three books and a person-shaped book-end holiding the books up