Enterprise Accessibility Training

TPGi's Enterprise Accessibility Training is a flexible training program that allows your entire team the ability to address their knowledge gaps on their own schedule.

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An Accessibility Training Program Designed To Support Your Team

One Training Program For All

Maintain momentum on your accessibility goals by supporting your team’s need for accessibility knowledge.

Role-Based Education

Pragmatic and useful education that uses real-world examples drawn from the presenters’ accessibility backgrounds.

Training Delivered How and When You Need It

Training is offered in a flexible webinar format to support remote/distributed workforces and allow the ability to join from anywhere.

TPGi has a wealth of options for training. Enterprise Accessibility Training allows your team to enhance their accessibility knowledge throughout the year and on their schedule.

You can purchase a twelve-month training program, flexible to accommodate your team. Every class is offered four to sixteen times per year which allows for your team to revisit classes multiple times throughout the year and empowers them to pick session times that fit in their busy schedules.

Each training session is 90 minutes
Led by a TPGi accessibility expert
Up to 250 participants can attend EACH session
Every class is offered 4 to 16 times per year
Class content evolves as new sessions become available

Introduction to Accessibility

Is your team new to accessibility? Unsure where to begin? This module serves as an introduction to the topic of accessibility with an emphasis on what it means to be accessible, the people that need it, and how we measure it.

Topics include:

Overview of Accessibility
Types of disabilities and specific accommodations
Legislation and Guidelines

Recommended audience: all stakeholders

Interacting with people in a respectful manner is an important part of work and life. Interacting with people with disabilities is no different, but a lack of appreciation of the nature and culture of disability can lead to misunderstandings and communication breakdowns. The goal of this session is to share some best practices on disability-inclusive communication.

Topics include:

Types of Disabilities
Disability Etiquette
Disabilities and Customer Service
Interacting with your peers

Recommended audience: all stakeholders

Assistive Technology, or AT, comes in many different forms. In this session, TPGi will look at various assistive technologies used by people with disabilities and how such users utilize them in daily life.

Topics include:

What is AT and how does it work?
Who needs AT?
Types of AT
- Hardware
- Software
- Operating System / Built-in accessibility considerations
AT Demos

Recommended audience: all stakeholders

Management

Perfect for non-technical stakeholders, this module provides an overview of role-based accessibility requirements and how management directly influences the accessibility of a product throughout its lifecycle. It serves as a how-to guide for those in less technical roles to effectively engage with dev ops teams.

Topics include:

Accessibility guidelines and legislation
Role-based responsibility for accessibility
Writing and testing accessibility requirements
Examples of accessibility requirements

Recommended audience: PMs, Project Owners, BAs, and all other stakeholders

All technology a company buys, builds, maintains, or uses must be accessible. Does your team know what questions to ask during the procurement process to mitigate risk?

Topics include:

Requirements
- Internal and External
How to establish a procurement program
Asking the right questions
Contract language
Support and resources
- Internal and External

Recommended audience: PMs, Project Owners, BAs, anyone involved in procurement

UX and Design

Accessibility is more effective when it’s “baked in” to the design. In this module, attendees learn how to ensure their processes include all accessibility requirements.

Topics include:

Annotating designs for accessibility
Why early integration of accessibility is important
Incorporating accessibility into a Definition of Done
When and how to involve disabled users in the design process

Recommended audience: UX and interaction designers

This section digs into the techniques that designers employ to ensure their work is accessible for end users.

Topics include:

Overview of WCAG and Guidelines specific to design
Design considerations
- Page structure and navigation
- Content and focus order
- Ways to use images
- Using color
- Iconography and typography
- Visible Focus
- Form labeling and error messages
Inclusive Design principles

Recommended audience: UX and Visual designers

The best way to ensure your products work for all users is to test with real people.

Topics include:

The value of research with people with disabilities
Addressing challenges in recruiting people with disabilities
Ensuring inclusive common research methods
Identifying opportunities for involving people with disabilities in user research

Recommended audience: UX designers, Researchers

Content Creation & Management

When producing content via a content management system (CMS) or a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, creators have limited access to source code and other underlying elements that affect accessibility, so what can they control? This session will dive into elements of accessibility that content creators should be considering when producing new content.

Topics include:

Text content
- Links and Navigation
Images
Color and Contrast
Document structure
Email accessibility

Recommended audience: Content creators

This session will outline the requirements for creating accessible multimedia, both from a content perspective and a technical one.

Topics include:

Multimedia basics
Captions and transcripts
Audio descriptions
Moving, blinking, flashing content

These principles (and others) will then be applied to social media and how posts to these platforms can be made as accessible.

Platforms include:

Facebook
Twitter
Snapchat
Instagram

Recommended audience: Content Creators, Social Media Managers

Development

HTML elements all exist for a reason. If used correctly, these elements convey important information to assistive technologies. This module will examine semantic structure, including headings and other structural elements and how it impacts the accessibility of your work.

Topics include:

Structural elements including
- Landmarks
- Headings
- Lists
- Tables
Logical Document Structure