short accessibility trainings

These are some of the short (1 hour) learning sessions provided by IAccessible for product makers, business leaders, user researchers, designers, and developers. Each session is best suited for an audience of 20-25 people to encourage learner participation.

Demystifying Accessibility

Level: 100 Audience: Product and business leaders Format: Presentation

Learning objectives

This course helps product leaders understand the accessibility ecosystem.

  • Understand what is accessibility.
  • Think about why you should make accessible products.
  • Learn about what is the global compliance landscape.
  • Understand why to build “with” users with disabilities and not “for” them.

The Disability spectrum

Level: 100 Audience: Product and business leaders, designers, developers, and testers Format: Panel discussion

Learning objectives

This course helps learners gain an appreciation of the impact accessibility has on people’s lives and how it helps build better products.

  • Understand what is accessibility.
  • Learn about types of disabilities and assistive tools used by people with different disabilities.
  • Gain empathy and appreciation for real-life impact by hearing from users with disabilities who use assistive technologies for their education, work, and day-to-day living.

Designing products for accessibility: Tenets and traps

Level: 100 Audience: designers and developers Format: presentation and hands on exercises

Learning objectives

This course helps designers and developers have a basic understanding of the common pitfalls that cause inaccessible designs and how to avoid them.

  • Understand what is accessibility.
  • Learn about types of disabilities and assistive tools used by people with different disabilities.
  • See examples of common accessibility problems – Traps!
  • Discuss tenets of good design
  • Practice tenets and traps with hands on exercise/quiz.

Meet a real screen reader user as they navigate the Web

Level: 100 Audience: designers, developers, and testers Format: Demo

Learning objectives

This course helps designers and developers gain an understanding of the POUR principles of accessibility by watching a demo of how a real screen reader user traverses the Web.

  • Understand what is accessibility.
  • Demo of A Screen reader user using a Web page.
  • Learn about the POUR principles of accessibility.

Tools to help you drive accessibility in your products

Level: 100 Audience: designers, developers, and testers Format: Demo and presentation

Learning objectives

This course helps designers and developers learn about some common accessibility testing tools.

  • Learn about accessibility design self-assessment toolkit
  • Learn about Accessibility Insights for the Web
  • Learn about accessibility checker in MS Office

Usability not just accessibility

Level: 100 Audience: Product leaders, designers, developers, and testers Format: Presentation

Learning objectives

This course provokes a discussion of the importance of usability as opposed to bare minimum compliance for accessibility.

  • Understand what is accessibility.
  • Learn about the persona spectrum and how a more usable design for people with disabilities helps everyone.
  • See examples of small changes in design that make a big difference.
  • Discuss the importance of user research to gain insights into usability.

How to write good “alt” text for images

Level: 100 Audience: designers, developers, and testers Format: Presentation and hands on exercises

Learning objectives

This course gives learners best practices of solving one of the most common accessibility problems on the Web, Alt text for images.

  • Understand what is “Alt” text for images.
  • Understand what kind of images should be decorative and which should have alternate text.
  • Learn the best practices of writing good “alt” text.
  • Practice writing good “alt” text.

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