Setting Up Resources for Web Accessibility Training

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This page provides lists some advance preparation steps to help ensure that demonstrations and accessibility of materials work smoothly.

Online presentations allow the presenter to demonstrate more Web sites and W3C/WAI resources than do off-line presentations.
Online access can be unreliable for presentations. Downloading materials in advance allows the presenter to run demonstrations locally if necessary.

An LCD projector and projection screen allows the presenter to dynamically demonstrate resources from a laptop.
A VCR allows the presenter to show the video "Web Sites That Work" [link will be provided].
Installing and testing text browsers, screen readers and/or voice browsers in advance of a presentation allows the presenter to demonstrate how different people access the Web.
Locating and become familiar with use of other assistive technologies such as adapted keyboards can enable the presenter to demonstrate additional access strategies used by people with disabilities.

Quick Tips for Accessible Web Sites, business-card sized reference cards, can be a popular handout. They can be ordered in advance in a variety of languages.
WAI Flyers, a single-page introduction to WAI resources, can be ordered in advance [link will be provided].

Some audience members may need braille, large print, tape or disk formats; these are best arranged in advance.