Usability and accessibility training
User Vision consultants have a wealth of experience testing and improving websites, software and products. In our training courses we draw on all our experience and share our expert knowledge with you.
Equipping you and your colleagues with a solid grounding in user centred design techniques ensures that your project team keeps firmly focused on the user and understand the most appropriate methods to apply at particular points in the development life cycle. The in-house knowledge you gain reduces development time by building usability and accessibility into the project from the start and throughout the lifecycle, so that considerably fewer revisions are needed.
We have trained directors, managers, designers, content contributors, developers, consultants and volunteers! Organisations that have benefited from our training include the Royal Bank of Scotland, Historic Scotland, the Department of Trade and Industry, Scottish Enterprise, the House of Commons and HSBC.
Our training programmes
We offer both private and public training courses covering a wide range of user experience areas.
Our courses are flexible and can be tailored to your company’s:
- usability/accessibility experience
- sector
- specific project needs
- budget and time demands
From your detailed requirements we can provide a training solution that incorporates examples and case studies from your current projects into a customised course. By using your specific information to illustrate usability and accessibility principles, we bring together the training with your actual project and business goals.
Training sessions can take place at your own offices, external venues, or our own purpose built training room. Our courses are highly participative, with group activities and workshops to give participants immediate, hands-on experience of user-centred design. All delegates receive a training manual with copies of the slides, forms to use in applying usability and/or accessibility methods, and resources for additional information.
Usability and accessibility course outlines
The outlines below give you a flavour of the range and core content of our public and in-house courses:
Usability training (1/2 – 1 day)
- Why Address Usability?
- Usability Design Principles
- Overview of Usability Activities in Design
- Usability in action – workshop
Accessibility overview (1/2 – 1 day)
- Why aim for web accessibility?
- Goals of accessibility
- Introduction of WAI guidelines & introduction to WCAG v2.0
- How to test for compliance
Information Architecture Master Class (1/2 – 1 day)
- Why consider the IA?
- Findability: How people get to the information they are seeking
- Research & analysis Methods
- Presenting your IA on the site
- IA in action – workshop
Overview of Interaction Design (1 – 2 days)
- What is Interaction Design / HCI and why is it important?
- Cognitive psychology basis of usability & HCI
- The process for creating usable systems
- Examples of usability
- User & Task Profiling Workshop
Writing for the Web (1/2 – 1 day)
- Why is writing for the web different?
- Who are you writing for?
- Keeping things simple
- Guiding the reader
- Putting it into practice
Our courses can be as detailed or high level as required for the specific audience and will always be tailored to your organisation or industry sector to give you useful comparisons relevant to your market area. Our courses are highly regarded and we now also run some of our courses in conjunction with e-Consultancy. See what others have to say about us:
I was very much impressed with the course and have been able to tidy up some of my work practices inline with the processes outlined in the course so it was certainly a very worthwhile course.
Business Technology Information Manager, Scottish Parliament
I found the event most enjoyable, interesting and, most importantly, informative; mainly due to the style of delivery and willingness to answer, competently and honestly, questions from the floor. I attend quite a few workshops/courses each year and this has to be up there with the best.
Course Attendee, Glasgow Caledonian University
What to do next
Dates for our public courses can be found on our events page, if you would like to discuss a tailored training course then please contact us .