Goals and Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the apprentice will be able to:
Theoretical Models of Disability
1. Identify prominent theoretical models of disability.
2. Describe their basic concepts and understand their strengths and weaknesses.
3. Identify which models align most closely with the principles of accessibility and universal design.
4. Apply the models to example scenarios in the lives of people with disabilities.
Disability Demographics and Statistics
1. Articulate the business case for digital accessibility and inclusive design.
Categories and Characteristics of Disabilities and Associated Barriers
1. Name the main categories of disabilities.
2. Classify specific conditions under the appropriate disability category or categories.
3. Describe the accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities of a given category.
Assistive Technologies and Adaptive Strategies
1. Understand that assistive technologies and adaptive strategies are designed for information communication technology (ICT) or the physical world.
2. Know the difference between assistive technologies and adaptive strategies.
3. Identify assistive technologies and adaptive strategies for different types of disabilities.
Disability Etiquette
1. Describe and follow disability etiquette guidelines for interacting with people with disabilities.
2. Judge the appropriateness of various ways of referring to or about people with disabilities.
Goals and Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the apprentice will be able to:
Disability Rights and Accessibility
1. Comply with international proclamations supporting disability rights and digital accessibility.
2. Follow tech industry benchmarks to support digital accessibility.
Legal Framework of Digital Accessibility
1. Follow accessibility and disability rights laws in the U.S.
2. Apply digital accessibility case law and trends in the U.S.
3. Follow digital accessibility and disability rights laws in countries throughout the world.
Accessibility Standards
1. Apply pertinent digital accessibility standards, particularly WCAG, in practice.
Management Strategies to Support Accessibility
1. Articulate the business case for digital accessibility.
2. Champion digital accessibility support across organization departments with an understanding of responsibilities and motivation.
3. Apply essential techniques for setting digital accessibility goals and reporting.
4. Apply digital accessibility skills in procurement and related strategy.
5. Implement strategies for different types of digital accessibility training.
6. Support digital accessibility through different types of internal and external communication.
7. Follow workflow strategies to better support digital accessibility including types of tooling.
Unlock the power of human inclusion. Cooperative Understanding recognizes that every human being is unique. Each of us has a distinctive set of sensory and functional capabilities, as well as meaningful life experiences. At the same time, there are ways in which all people are alike. There are essential aspects of the human experience, such as birth, death, love, struggle, and emotion, that are shared by everyone. Corporate cultures that empower all people to engage with their strongest combination of knowledge, senses, and abilities, while also supporting our essential human needs, achieve spectacular results.
Cooperative Understanding transforms this vision into reality by leveraging the best of social psychology, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, appreciative, strengths-based thinking, and neuroplasticity, to deliver harmony at work.
Who should enroll in this program? Anyone, and everyone, that wants to be more inclusive, invite, excite, attract, and meaningfully engage, all people; anyone that wants to improve upon their own human ability, their own well-being, and their relationships with other people, while positively impacting the human ability, well-being, capabilities, and relationships of their team members.
Goals and Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the apprentice will be able to:
Content management systems
1. Understand what a content management system (CMS) is and fundamentals on how to use it.
2. Understand the different types of CMSs available and prevalence of use.
3. Understand, navigate, and utilize the elements of a CMS (admin, plugins, themes, support).
4. Publish content on two CMSs including WordPress.
5. Understand and manage the accessibility capabilities and techniques for two CMSs including WordPress.
6. Selecting an appropriate CMS based on relevant factors.
Overview of web accessibility issues
1. Understand and address the common challenges in web/digital accessibility.
2. Understand past solutions to web accessibility, both ideal and not ideal, and implement the most appropriate solution.
3. Understand the key differences between owned, third-party, and user-generated content, and apply accessibility guidance accordingly.
Techniques for accessible content
1. Write accessible content.
2. Design accessible content.
3. Create accessible multimedia.
4. Test for accessible content.
Social media
1. Understand the different social media platforms and trends in usage to determine the most appropriate for an organization or project.
2. Selecting a social media platform by understanding the general advantages and disadvantages of several platforms including Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
3. Understand and manage the accessibility capabilities of several platforms including Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
4. Implement techniques for creating accessible social media.
Applying skills
1. Demonstrate how to use social media to create accessible content.
2. Demonstrate how to use a CMS to create accessible content.
Goals and Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the apprentice will be able to:
Overview of Universal Design
1. Understand recognize Universal Design is in both the built and digital environments.
2. Understand and recognize the relationship between universal design, accessibility, usability, inclusive design.
3. Understand and recognize the principles of Universal Design.
Universal Design in the physical world
1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of physical accessibility principles and guidelines for the built environment.
2. Identify Universal Design implementation in the physical world.
Universal Design on the World Wide Web
1. Interpret basic concepts of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.
2. Interpret principles of the WCAG Guidelines: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust.
3. Understand and recognize the components of web accessibility: web content, user agents, authoring tools, and testing tools.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
1. Understand key principles of the UDL Guidelines.
2. Understand key concepts for ideal Usability and User Experience (UX) for learning.
Applying Skills
1. Demonstrate Universal Design in the physical world.
2. Demonstrate Universal Design in the digital space.
3. Demonstrate Universal Design for Learning.