Educational Technology

By Todd R. Weiss, eWeek
 
Google is offering a free online course from Sept. 17 to 30 to help Web developers make their sites more accessible to visually impaired users. Google will offer a free online course Sept. 17 to 30 to teach Web developers and designers how they can make their Websites more accessible and friendly for blind and visually impaired users. The course, “Introduction to Web Accessibility,” will offer a host of practices and design elements that will allow sites to serve visually impaired users who wish to have better access to the online world, Eve Andersson, the manager of accessibility engineering at Google, wrote in a Sept. 9 post on the Google Developers Blog.

http://www.eweek.com/developer/google-gives-online-class-on-making-websites-accessible-to-the-blind.html/