Run accessible meetings in MS Teams

Course outline:

This hands-on, practical course will teach you how to run accessible meetings, presentations and workshops in Microsoft Teams and will:

  • Outline the background to web accessibility standards and their continued importance.
  • Our Digital Accesibility Consultant trainer will talk you through the tools to use for each process and provide a step-by-step handbook for reference, post-course.

Topics:

  • Background to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and 2.1 (link opens in new window).
  • Understand how people with vision impairment engage with printed documentation.
  • Screenreader demonstration on inaccessible vs accessible documents to understand how screen reading and other assistive technology works.
  • Learn how to use Microsoft’s inbuilt accessibility and template tools in Windows and Office suite.
  • Discover free third party online tools that assess existing document accessibility and offer practical advice and processes for fixing them.
  • Step-by-step workshop to teach best practice processes for creating Word documents.

Workshop covers:

  • Accessibility consideration on MS Teams vs face-to-face session
  • Quick accessible tips to make your resources (video and audio content) and documents accessible when sharing content in MS Teams.

Who is this course for?

  • Individuals and organisations with staff or customers living with vision impairment.
  • Individuals and organisations that produce printed information for the public.

Skill level:

This course is suitable for people with a basic level of competence with Microsoft Teams.

Course material:

Course material includes:

  • Step-by-step handbook to creating accessibility within MS Teams
  • Tips and tricks to implement accessibility and speed up the editing process.

Workshop details:

Workshops are held online for participants in Tasmania.

Duration:

2 hours

Cost:

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Workshop dates:

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Requirements:

  • Participants to each bring a laptop or tablet with MS Office installed
  • (Onsite) Room set up in classroom format
  • (Onsite) Data projector and screen

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