EIAS (European IWA/HWG Accessibility Syllabus)

Five days training. Each topic includes theory and practical examples.

CSS Module

• Introduction
• Syntax
• Specificity, inheritance and cascade
• Values and Units
• Media types
• Typography (Fonts and Text properties)
• Box model
• Visual formatting model* Generated content and lists
• Paged media
• Colors and Backgrounds
• Tables
• User interface
• Cross-browser CSS
• CSS 2.1 vs. CSS2
• CSS Accessibility
• CSS3 modules
• Building a CSS layout

Markup and XHTML Module

• Markup: what’s its use?
• What is a DTD?
• Structure of a XHTML document
• Structural markup: logical and semantic elements in XHTML
• Block and inline elements
• Elements and their attributes
• Tables
• Div and Span elements
• XHTML documents’ parsing and rendering
• Well formed XHTML documents
• XHTML validation
• XHTML 1.0 strict DTD analysis

Accessible Multimedia Module

• Introduction - An overview of Multimedia components;
• Review of web accessibility including WAI guidelines, Section 508, Stanca Act;
• Streaming Media Methods and Media formats (Windows Media, QuickTime and RealMedia);
• Flash and Shockwave - A discussion of accessibility features and issues with these formats;
• Providing text transcription, captions and descriptive video synchronized with the media (captions for spoken word, auditory descriptions of relevant action taking place on the screen);
• Captioning with MAGpie, Hi-Caption and other tools;
• SMIL and SVG accessibility features;
• Creating an accessible slideshow.

Evaluating Web Sites Accessibility Module

• Web accessibility evaluation: why and when?
• The evaluation cicle:

o XHTML and CSS W3C validators
o Semi-automated validation tools
o Expert validation
o Users tests


The italian accessibility Law Module - Stanca Act 04/2004

• From WCAG to Stanca Act
• The Stanca Act 04/2004: normative text analisys
• Implementation rules (DPR 1st march 2005 n. 75)
• Technical requirements and accessibility levels for IT tools
• Technical check and accessibility requirements of Web based applications
• Technical requirements for desktop and laptop computers

Note: this last chapter is based on Italian accessibility law, the Stanca Act http://www.pubbliaccesso.gov.it/normative/law_20040109_n4.htm

In every country which already has a Web accessibility policy, this chapter should be updated and related to that specific legislation.

Otherwise a "generic" chapter about WAI, WCAG 1.0 guidelines and basic techniques will be provided.

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