Digital Accessibility

Accessibility Best Practices


Description
This course is for people new to accessibility, and covers an overview of the WCAG 2.1 guidelines and breaks them down into easy to understand summaries, as well as offers some instruction on some specific and real-life examples of what to watch for when ensuring your online presence is accessible to everyone.
Please note that every site is different, therefore the best way to present something may be different by site, and can be somewhat subjective. The goal of this training is inform you of the guidelines and to highlight some examples, but each developer will have to extract the themes around the guidelines and put them into practice in the way that most makes sense for your site.

There is no prerequisite to taking this course, but it’s appropriate for:
• Managers, as it gives an overview of WCAG 2.1 Guidelines,
• Developers, because it gives an overview of WCAG 2.1 Guidelines and it instructs on some specific and real-life examples on how to avoid/fix some of the most common errors.
Content
  • Section 1
  • Accessibility Overview
  • Quiz 1 - Overview
  • Section 2 - Common Non-Compliance Issues (1)
  • Page Titles
  • Headings
  • Lists
  • Alt text
  • Quiz 2 - Common Non-Compliance Issues (Part 1)
  • Section 3 - Common Non-Compliance Issues (2)
  • Focus
  • Forms
  • TabIndex
  • Skip Navigation
  • Links
  • Color & Color Contrast
  • Fonts
  • Tables
  • Quiz 3 - Common Non-Compliance Issues (Part 2)
  • Section 4 - The Principle Summaries
  • The Principles
  • Section 5 - Principle 1: Perceivable
  • Principle 1 - Overview
  • Guideline 1.1: Text Alternatives
  • Guideline 1.2: Time-Based Media
  • Guideline 1.3: Adaptable
  • Guideline 1.4: Distinguishable
  • Quiz 4 - Principle 1: Perceivable
  • Section 6 - Principle 2: Operable
  • Principle 2 - Overview
  • Guideline 2.1: Keyboard Accessible
  • Guideline 2.2: Enough Time
  • Guideline 2.3: Seizures
  • Guideline 2.4: Navigable
  • Guideline 2.5: Input Modalities
  • Quiz 5 - Principle 2: Operable
  • Section 7 - Principle 3: Understandable
  • Principle 3 - Overview
  • Guideline 3.1: Readable
  • Guideline 3.2: Predictable
  • Guideline 3.3: Input Assistance
  • Quiz 6 - Principle 3: Understandable
  • Section 8 - Principle 4: Robust
  • Principle 4 - Overview
  • Guideline 4.1: Compatible
  • Section 9 - Recap and Levels A & AA
  • Recap
  • LEVEL A
  • LEVEL AA
  • Quiz 7 - Recap and Levels A & AA
  • Survey
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever