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Accessibility Fundamentals

Recommended for all roles. Recommended prerequisite for most courses. Popular course. Four 90-minute sessions. 

Course overview: This foundational course is for teams that are new to accessibility and are looking for an introduction to disability types, challenges faced by users with disabilities, and the assistive technology used to overcome them. Participants will also gain valuable insight on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) used to measure accessibility. 

Learning outcomes: 

  1. Understand what digital accessibility means, who it affects, and why it’s beneficial to your organization.
  2. Identify the different types of disabilities and the assistive technology used by each group. 
  3. Understand what WCAG is and how it is used to measure the accessibility of your products.

The following table lists the course sessions: 

Session # Session title Session description
  1.  
 Introduction to Accessibility
  • Defining accessibility, disability types, and other common terms 
  • Statistics and trends with disability and inclusion
  • Common types of disabilities and considerations for greater inclusion
  1.  
 Assistive Technology
  • Defining assistive technology
  • Common tools for blind users, low vision users, and people with cognitive or motor disabilities
  • Demo of assistive technology for desktop – screen readers, screen magnification, voice recognition, and more
  1.  
 Accessibility Guidelines (Part 1)
  • WCAG Success Criteria – accessibility requirements and why they are important:
    • POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust)
    • Semantic Structure & Navigation
  1.  
 Accessibility Guidelines (Part 2)
  • Interactivity and Dynamic Content
  • Sight & Sound
  • Understandability
  • Robustness

 

Accessibility Accessibility for UX/Design 

Recommended for UX Design teams, interaction designers, information architects, content creators. Four 90-minute sessions Completion of Accessibility Fundamentals recommended. Familiarity with prototyping tools recommended (Figma, Sketch, InDesign, etc.). Popular course.

Course overview: Using design patterns for teaching exercises, attendees will work through examples of incorporating functional user needs for a wide variety of user abilities into inclusive design solutions. Through persona-led demonstrations and real-world examples, UX teams will develop the skills to enhance design documentations with accessibility annotations and consider the functional needs of users of all abilities throughout the product development lifecycle (PDLC).

Learning outcomes: 

  1. Discuss and explain the fundamentals and principles of inclusive design.
  2. Explain and identify important accessible visual layout and user interaction best practices.
  3. Understand how color, font, typography, plain language, and structure impact the end user experience.
  4. Apply learnings toward development of wireframe annotations in prototyping tools.

The following table lists the course sessions: 

Session # Session title Session description
  1.  
 The Role of Design in Accessibility 
  • Fundamentals of inclusive design
  • Understanding the accessible user experience-Personas with diverse disabilities 
  • The designer’s role in accessibility
  1.  
 Accessible Visual Design
  • Accessible visual layouts
  • Proper use of color and contrast 
  • Fonts and typography
  1.  
 Accessible Content Creation
  • Plain language and readability
  • Landmarks and headings
  • Images
  • Accessible multimedia
  1.  
 Accessible Interaction Design
  • Name, role, and state:
    • Controls’ Identification (Name)
    • Signifiers and perceived affordances (Role and State)
  • Fundamentals of keyboard accessibility:
    • Focus order and flow
    • Visual focus indicators
    • Keyboard navigation
    • Focus management

Accessibility for Developers

Recommended for developers and engineers. Four 90-minute sessions. Completion of Accessibility Fundamentals recommended. 

Course overview: In this course, we will cover best practices for semantic structure, looking extensively at how to ensure that keyboard accessibility (and in turn, screen reader accessibility) is properly implemented within web assets. Attendees will be provided with a foundation of basic HTML accessibility principles for forms, images, focus management, tables, and multimedia. We will also learn about ARIA and when to use ARIA properties to further enhance accessibility within web-based content. 

Learning outcomes: 

  1. Understand why semantic structure is important and how to code HTML pages with explicit structure rather than relying on implicit attributes. 
  2. Understand how to make web content keyboard accessible. 
  3. Understand the importance of focus order and focus path management. 
  4. Understand how to create accessible forms with dynamic error messages.
  5. Know what ARIA means and when to use it appropriately.

The following table lists the course sessions: 

Session # Session title Session description
  1.  
 Accessibility for Developers - Structure
  • Coding for accessibility 
  • Progressive enhancement 
  • HTML as a basis for accessibility
  •  Webpage semantics-Title-Language-Headings-Landmarks 
  • Code validation
  1.  
 Accessibility for Developers - Flow
  • Keyboard accessibility
    • Logical flow
    • Focus management
    • Visual focus indication 
  • Navigation 
  • Accessible mega-menus
  •  Forms and errors
  1.  
 Accessibility for Developers - Content
  • Name, role, state/property
  • Adding accessibility labels
  • Images and other non-text content
  • Animations
  • Multimedia 
  • Tables
  • Showing and hiding content 
  • Responsive design
  1.  
 Understanding ARIA
  • Getting started with ARIA
  • ARIA for…
    • Structure
    • Creation of roles and properties
    • Remediation
  • Creating accessible custom controls 
  • Dynamic content and single-page apps 
  • ARIA widgets (choose 3-6)
    • Accordions
    • Carousels
    • Combo boxes
    • Date pickers
    • List boxes
    • Menus
    • Modals
    • Tab lists
    • Tooltips
    • Sliders
    • Progress bar

Mobile Accessibility

Recommended for iOS and Android app developers. QA testers (optional). Two 90-minute sessions. Completion of Accessibility Fundamentals recommended. Popular course.

Course overview: In this course, participants will become familiar with accessibility features on mobile devices through a variety of demonstrations and personas. Participants will also be introduced to mobile accessibility testing tools and basic mobile accessibility testing techniques. Finally, participants will learn important accessibility concepts to create accessible mobile applications. This session does not cover methods for implementing accessibility through frameworks such as React. 

Learning outcomes:

  1. Identify common mobile assistive technologies used by people with disabilities.
  2. Understand how to perform automated and manual tests during development to ensure mobile applications meet accessibility requirements. 
  3. Describe various considerations to improve the structure and navigation of mobile apps, along with techniques to communicate dynamic content to end users.

The following table lists the course sessions: 

Session # Session title Session description
  1.  
 Mobile Assistive Technologies
  • Mobile assistive technologies
    • Screen reader
    • Keyboard-Zoom
    • Switch Control
    • Voice Recognition
  • Basic Mobile Accessibility Testing
  1.  
 Accessible Native Mobile Development
  • Mobile Testing Tools
  • Name, Role, and State
  • Structure and Navigation
    • Reading Order and Focus Order
    • Headings
  • Dynamic Content

Document Accessibility 

Recommended for content creators, PDF remediation specialists, product owners. Four 90-minute sessions. Completion of Accessibility Fundamentals recommended. 

Course overview: Participants will be equipped with a strong foundation in document and PDF accessibility by learning a wide variety of accessibility concepts including file properties, images/graphics, links, semantic structure, basic data tables, reading order, and tags. Participants will be able to ensure advanced components related to PDFs are accessible with all of the concepts covered being followed by a testing workshop. 

Learning outcomes: 

  1. Identify key components that make documents accessible. 
  2. Convert documents to accessible PDFs and remediate accessibility issues in Acrobat Pro. 
  3. Verify that PDFs are accessible through various testing methods.

The following table lists the course sessions: 

Session # Session title Session description
  1.  
  • Option 1: Accessible Microsoft Documents 2.
  • Option 2: Accessible Google Documents 
  • Option 3: Accessible InDesign Documents
  • Overview of document accessibility
  • Using the Accessibility Checker
  • Structure
  • Formatting
  • Navigation
  • Exporting to PDF
  1.  
 Accessible PDF Documents
  • Accessible source documents
  • Setting up
  • Metadata
  • Tags
  • Reading order
  • Page structure 
  • Figures/images 
  • Lists
  • Data tables
  1.  
 Accessible Advanced PDF Documents
  • Links 
  • Complex tables
  • Forms
  • Character encoding 
  • Tab order
  • Contrast checking
  • Reflow
  • Live PDF remediation
  1.  
 PDF Testing and Remediation Workshop
  • Work in small groups and apply learnings toward testing and remediation of source documents and PDFs 
  • Instructors provide guidance and answer questions throughout the session

Accessible Usability Studies 

Recommended for UX researchers, UX designers. Two 90-minute sessions. 

Course overview: In this course, we’ll apply accessibility and inclusive design considerations to participants’ existing UX research skillset. Learners will explore methods for recruiting assistive technology users, scheduling sessions, the pros and cons of different study formats, and strategies for setting up and running successful studies. 

Learning outcomes: 

  1. Apply UX accessibility research methods to set up usability studies.
  2. Consider the needs of people with disabilities and assistive technology users when designing research studies.
  3. Measure a product’s overall accessibility in usability studies.

The following table lists the course sessions: 

Session # Session title Session description
  1.  
 UX Accessibility Research Methods – Planning and Setting Up
  • Overview of user research and usability studies
  • Special considerations when involving users with disabilities 
  • Timing usability studies
  • Recruiting users with disabilities
  1.  
 Accessibility Research Methods – Conducting and Interpreting Studies
  • Identify core tasks
  • Preparing a usability session script
  • Remote vs. in-person studies
  • Setting up and running sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

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