Impact of Digital Accessibility Training: Lived Experience

This training session will raise awareness and empathy in relation to the impact on people (the end user) when choosing to create or not to create accessible digital environments.

Factoring in and embedding accessibility into our project management practices and our software development lifecycle is essential to ensure our colleagues, stakeholders, customers, service users and candidates with disability can access sites, apps, platforms, and online/digital content.

This session will raise awareness of people’s lived experience through real-life examples and case studies, virtual and in person demonstrations and conversations, video clips and use of digital simulation tools and assistive technologies.

At the heart of this conversation, we are talking about people and the impact our decisions, design, development, and project management can have on their experiences. This session focuses on the impact of accessible and inaccessible digital environments and lived experience.

Learning Outcomes

• Know what is meant by the term accessibility
• Know some facts and statistics about the Australian / Global population
• Know about our legal obligations and the standards/guidelines we can adhere to
• Understand the foundation principles of digital accessibility and the different methods to ensure accessibility
• Know the key focus areas for digital accessibility and how these impact a person’s experience
• Understand more about the impact of accessibility from the perspective of people with disability

Target Audience

This training is an introductory level in relation to digital accessibility and will suit individuals from the following roles: 

• Platform Managers
• Product Owners
• Technical team members (Designers, Developers, Testers)
• Anyone in your Department or organisation who wants to improve their knowledge on the impacts of accessibility and learn from people with lived experience