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AccessibleEU Cyprus - Making Digital Content Accessible: Empowering Inclusive Experiences (24-WS-CY-01)

AccessibleEU organises three workshops which involve hands-on training where participants learn how to use accessible design principles, tools, and techniques to develop and optimise digital content to be usable by diverse audiences.

More specifically, these workshops aim to:

  • enhance participants' understanding of the importance of web accessibility and its impact on various user groups, including those with disabilities; 
  • educate participants about relevant guidelines, laws, and best practices to ensure that digital content is accessible to all;
  • equip participants with practical skills and strategies for creating accessible websites, accessible documents and accessible content including easy to read information.
  • Target audience: Web developers and digital content creators, designers, students in the field of rehabilitation and disabilities, ICT students, higher education instructors, policy makers.  
  • When: 
    • April 3, 2024. 11:00 – 14:30. 
      Workshop 1: Web accessibility.

    • April 3, 2024. 11:00 – 14:30. 
      Workshop 2: Easy-to-read and accessible content.

    • April 10, 2024. 11:30 – 14:30 
      Workshop 3: Accessible documents.

  • Where: European University Cyprus, 6 Diogenes Street, 1516, Nicosia Cyprus
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type of event: Workshop and mutual learning session
  • Language:
    • Workshop 1: English
    • Workshops 2 & 3: Greek 
  • How to participate:
  • Accessibility information: Accessible venue. Captioning in Greek. Sign interpretation in Cyprus sign language.

The registration is now closed, but if you wish to attend Workshop 3 you can either join online or attend on site at the premises of the European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Rooms 007 & 008.

  • inclusion
  • Wednesday 3 April 2024, 11:00 - Wednesday 10 April 2024, 14:30 (EEST)
Country
  • Cyprus

Programme

  1. 3 Apr 2024, 11:00 - 10 Apr 2024, 14:30 (EEST)
    Agenda

    April 3, 2024, 11:00 – 14:30

    •  Workshop1: Web Accessibility 
      • Presenter: Prof Klaus Miesenberger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz.
      • Coordinator: Constantinos Evangelou, Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy.
    • Workshop 2: Easy-to-read and accessible content
      • Presenter: Katerina Mavrou, European University Cyprus
      • Coordinator: Marina Payiatsou, Committee for the Protection of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

    April 10, 2024, 11:30 – 14:30

    • Workshop 3: Accessible Documents
      • Presenter: Katerina Mavrou
      • Coordinator: Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus

    Coffee breaks will be provided for all workshops from 13:00 to 13:15.

Practical information

When
Wednesday 3 April 2024, 11:00 - Wednesday 10 April 2024, 14:30 (EEST)
Languages
Greek, English