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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.

  • Training and workshops

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