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Accessible content experts

Accessibility course

This course is for anyone working in leadership, product, strategy or design.
It has tailored modules, practical exercises and real-life examples. It’s full of tips, how-to sheets and collaborative workshops.

What's in the course

On the first morning, you'll learn about:

  • why digital accessibility is important
  • equality and accessibility legislation

On the second morning, the course covers:

  • digital accessibility standards
  • accessibility statements, roadmaps and strategies

On the third morning, you'll get:

  • an introduction to assistive tech
  • to take part in an accessibility scavenger hunt, finding facts and figures online while using basic assistive technology

On the fourth and final morning, the course covers:

  • practical accessibility tips
  • advice on testing for accessibility
  • a workshop to review what we've learned and decide what to change in our future work

The training team

You’ll learn from trainers with accessibility needs. Kevin Mc Laughlin and Marian Avery are both registered blind (they both have some vision), and use assistive technology every day.

Marian and Kevin have worked in accessibility and content design for private, public and charity organisations for over 35 years, combined. They have worked with, trained, mentored and coached thousands of people in content accessibility.

Cost and payment

The course is €799 per person.
We accept payment in most currencies, by credit card or debit card.

Full payment must be made at least 3 working days before the course to guarantee your place. We cannot send the course materials until full payment is received.

Location, dates and timings

This course is delivered live, online, from Ireland using Google Meet, with new dates coming soon.

Booking

If you have any queries before booking you can email us

at​​​​​ coursebooking@contentdesignireland.ie.

Read our course booking terms and conditions

The accessibility of our courses

Our courses are as accessible as possible by default. We:

  • share slides in advance
  • use live captions
  • send transcripts on request
  • have breaks for people to reenergise

This workshop has some inaccessible elements for demonstration purposes. These will be fully described with content warnings.
If there is anything else we can do to make the course more accessible for you, email us at coursebooking@contentdesignireland.ie.
 

Bring this course to your organisation

If you’re interested in Content Design Ireland running this course at your organisation, email us at ​​​​​​coursebooking@contentdesignireland.ie.