Accessibility Basics Bootcamp

Description

So you want to make your business more accessible. You’ve heard about the benefits of accessibility to people with disabilities and you’ve heard that accessibility greatly benefits your bottom line, but you don’t know where to start. Perhaps you have heard some explanations of what accessibility is, but you’ve never seen it in practice.
Join me for this four week accessibility basics bootcamp training, where I take you through a fictional restaurant’s journey through common challenges to become accessible to people with disabilities and user-friendly for everyone.
During this in depth, interactive course you will:

• Learn about the three categories of accessibility.
• Follow a hypothetical yet realistic business’s journey and collaborate to solve several real life accessibility challenges.
• Learn the aspects of wheelchair access that business owners often overlook.
• Learn actionable steps you can take to make your premises easier to navigate
• Discover why your web site might not be accessible to a significant portion of your customer base.
• Learn actionable steps you can take to make your web site more accessible and user friendly
• Learn what to do when a person with a disability approaches your business.
• Discover how you can take customer service to the next level, not just for people with disabilities but for all your customers.

Participants in this course will receive:

• Four in-depth group coaching sessions,
• A summary handout after each session highlighting key points,
• Access to the Access for Everyone Accessibility Basics course,
• A 60-minute one-on-one consulting session with me.
• The reasonable accommodations decision matrix,
• A resource list of accessibility professionals,
• Top 5 questions to ask an accessibility professional

Session dates and times:

Session dates and times will be determined based on participants’ schedules.