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Accessible Web Development Course

Sponsor this project contact info@danishkadah.org.pk

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Greeting from DANISHKADAH (an organization for empowerment of Persons with Disabilities)!

We are working for promotion of web / information accessibility since many years. In past we just tried to raise awareness for the importance of web / information accessibility. Now we are taking a step forward and offering accessible web development course for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and for those working for/with Disabled People Organizations.

Why we offering this course?

As we are expert in ICT we were receiving many requests of support in web development for individual PWDs and DPOs. We started a project "FREE web development and hosting for DPOs". But we discovered that some DPOs have web site developed by one or another project and after the end of that project they don't have anyone to update their website. Other DPOs paying huge fee to get their website developed, maintained and update, and when they don't have fund, their website closed, and they loss everything.

We realized that instead of supporting them by developing their websites, we better empower them with the knowledge of "Accessible Web Development". Because if we build them a website who will maintain and update their website in future? We cannot help them in updating their website, for life time.

The second reason is to raise an "army" with knowledge of Accessible Web Development. This is human resources development. We not only train PWDs but we also encourage them to share their learning with their peers in their DPOs, in there countries.

What we will teache?

Web developing become a very complex task, yet it is very simple and easy to develop a simple and accessible website. Our aim is to encourage PWDs and show them how easy to develop a simple website, and let they over come their fear of complexity of ICT.

1. Extensible / Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML / XHTML)
2. Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
3. Web accessibility issues
4. Localization (language)

How it'll benefit the participants, their DPOs and eventually whole community

Sustainability

As we said above just developing web site of DPOs is not a sustainable solution, as such project end sooner or later and most of (if not all) the development goes in drain. Empower the PWDs with knowledge of accessible web development will assure the sustainability and prove more beneficial for the DPOs and for the PWD him/herself. So they can keep their website sustainable, update it quickly and more often, with no or minimum extra cost.

Human resources development

Empowering with the knowledge of Web Development and management will certainly will bring PDOs more developed human resources. On other hand PWDs community will have more skilled persons not begging for job but competing at equal level in job market.

Someone said "giving someone a bread is good support, but buying him a axe to let he cut the wood and sale to earn his bread is much better and sustainable support"

We at DANISHKADAH always insist for education and skill development in PWDs community, to enable them to have equal opportunity in market. We do not support begging job on quota we believe competing for job on merit.

As this course is for beginner this course may not make participants very expert but it will open their eye and a door of opportunity for further development

Multiplication

We got training on Web Accessibility and web base networking form Asia Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD), Bangkok - Thailand. And now we are multiplying our learning from APCD, by sharing it with more than 90 people from more than 30 countries. We believe that as we multiple the learning by sharing, these 90 participants will share their learning with their peers in their PDOs and community, to multiple the learning manifold.

As there are many Persons with Disabilities who would like to join this course but cannot because of language barrier (they can't understand English well), we hope that the participants of this course will start similar course in their own language so those who cannot learn it in English can learn it in their own language in future.

Promotion of Web Accessibility

Having more trained people with awareness of web accessibility issues, will eventually raise the awareness or web accessibility and will bring more and more accessible web site.

Networking of DPOs and online socialization of PWDs

More people with DPOs know and utilize the web technologies more possible to develop web base network of DPOs. Moreover it'll give more opportunities to PWDs to socialize peers at national and international level that will help in self help and learning from one another experience.

In short this initiative of DANISHKADAH will give a new trend in disability movement and will bring a huge change in future. We will keep empowering PWDs with more ICT course online.

Shall anyone like to join our hands for these empowerment projects, contact us at info @ danishkadah.org.pk

Sincerely,
DANISHKADAH

Prerequisite:

There is no prerequisite, but participant should be able to;

• Operate their computer
• Work with notepad
• Make folder, save and retrieve files.

Note: This course is for novice user it will be very simple and 100% practical course. So do not hesitate to give it a try even if you are not feels confident with computer software.

Course Duration:

We will send you lesson twice a week, every Friday and Monday. As this is our first batch we estimate that course will complete in 16-24 classes.

You'll receive lesson and assessment by email so you don't have to come online at particular time. However if possible we may announce extra support at msn messenger at particular time.

FEE:

There is no fee for the course, but we request that only serious people who really want to learn and then support their DPOs and themselves, register for the course.

Registration:

Registration Closed!

Deadline:

Registration dead line passed on 15th October, 2008. Wait for next announcement for Registration for Next batch.

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Batch 1 Participants' List ^{Updated Oct. 23rd}

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Please note that all of your information (including Photo, any ID, and contact info) will remain confidential and will not be shared with anyone. Except country, name, organization (if any) and disability type (if any), in the participants list. This participants list will be published here at this page. In case you don't want to mention your disability in participants list you can inform us and we will take care of it. But we must need to know your disability type (if any) so we can support you properly during the course.

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