Designing for Web Accessibility

• In this activity, you will be able to:
• Explain various indexing strategies and JOIN methods to optimize MySQL database performance
• Demonstrate optimizing MySQL queries and Firebase authentication
• Operate Bootstrap to design responsive websites
• Modify website layouts using Adobe Dreamweaver and CSS3
• Utilize WordPress templates for designing eCommerce and service-based websites
• Organize and customize website content for SEO optimization
• Compare user-centric design principles for news channel and social media websites
• Categorize call-to-action (CTA) elements and enhance user experience
• Analyse SEO strategies and implement them for website optimization
• Operate structured project cycles for effective website development
• Define career opportunities in web designing and prepare job-ready resumes
• Explain career growth options and strategies in web designing

• By the end of this activity, you will be able to:
• Explain various indexing strategies and JOIN methods to optimize MySQL database performance, enhancing data retrieval and system efficiency
• Demonstrate techniques for optimizing MySQL queries and configuring Firebase authentication to ensure robust and secure database operations
• Operate Bootstrap to design responsive websites that adapt seamlessly to different device screens, enhancing user experience
• Modify website layouts using Adobe Dreamweaver and CSS3 focusing on aesthetic appeal and functional design across platforms
• Examine WordPress templates to design and implement eCommerce and service-based websites, customizing features to meet specific business needs
• Organize and customize website content to optimize for SEO improving search engine visibility and user engagement
• Recognize user-centric design principles applicable to news channels and social media websites to enhance viewer interaction and satisfaction
• Illustrate call-to-action (CTA) elements effectively to enhance user experience and drive engagement on websites
• Analyze SEO strategies and implement them to optimize websites aiming to increase organic traffic and improve search rankings
• Develop structured project cycles to manage website development efficiently, ensuring timely completion and high-quality outputs
• Define career opportunities in web designing and prepare participants with job-ready resumes that highlight relevant skills and experiences
• Develop career growth options and strategies in web designing, providing a roadmap for professional advancement and success in the field

The academic approach of the course focuses on ‘work-centric’ education. With this hands-on approach, derive knowledge from and while working to make it more wholesome, delightful and useful. The ultimate objective is to empower learners to also engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at bringing learners closer to their rewarding careers as well as to the development of the community.

• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!