Creating Accessible Websites

Getting Help

For further information on any of the resources listed below and for general advice on web design please contact:

Alison Sharman - Web Support, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dave Bleasdale - ISS

 

Dreamweaver Training Courses

 

Dreamweaver MX is the preferred web editing software of web professionals and is now widely used on the Campus. Educational licences are available at approx £49+VAT per user. Free accessibility extensions are available from http://www.usablenet.com/frontend/508as_entry.jsp

Courses are scheduled at regular intervals throughout the year. It is strongly recommended that you learn the basics of HTML before attending a Dreamweaver course.

Contact Dave Bleasdale in ISS for further information.

Alison Sharman (Arts and Social Sciences) can arrange courses for a group of staff or departments on request. The course will show you how to create an accessible website and includes the use of templates and cascading style sheets - features that will assist you to maintain your websites with ease. You can use the website that you create on the course as the basis for any future sites that you need to build. Experienced web users who wish to self-teach should contact Alison for course book and associated files.

Web Accessibility Workshops

Workshops are held regularly throughout the year and advertised via e-mail and the noticeboard and newsletters. These give a general introduction to the problems that disabled users of the web face and how they overcome them. Much of the information is contained within this website. Presentations can be arranged for groups of staff and departments on request.

ISS also run web accessibility workshops and courses on how to write cascading style sheets.

Please contact Alison or Dave for further details. View Powerpoint presentation

Other Resources

Further information can be found on ISS website at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/iss/web

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