Half-day accessibility quick start for developers

This 4-hour hands on session will give Web designers and developers the quick start they need to incorporate accessibility into their everyday Web development work. This training covers the basics of what “accessibility” is, and quick hands on exercises for the most common and basic things that will take your rich Web 2.0 applications a long way towards being WCAG compliant.

At a glance

Audience: front-end and full-stack web developers, designers who code, QA engineers building automated checks, and engineering managers responsible for accessible delivery.
Format: approximately 4 hours of live, instructor-led training delivered remotely over Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
Group size: capped at 15 participants per session to keep it hands on and interactive.
Schedule options: a single half-day block, or two 2-hour sessions on consecutive days.
Language: English.
Customization: exercises and code examples tailored to your tech stack (React, Angular, Vue, plain HTML/CSS, or your component library) on request.
Materials provided: slides, sample code, hands-on exercise files, a screen reader cheat sheet, and a developer-focused accessibility checklist participants can apply to their own work the next day.
Accessibility of the training itself: live captions, accessible slides and exercise files, and reasonable accommodations available on request.
Session recording: available on request for participants who cannot attend live.
Technical requirements: a modern desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, or Firefox), ability to run a code editor, and screen-sharing enabled on the video conferencing tool.

Learning objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Explain what accessibility is, who is impacted, and the assistive technologies their users rely on.
Identify the most common and impactful accessibility defects in rich web applications.
Use browser-based and automated accessibility testing tools to find issues quickly during development.
Apply the WCAG techniques that fix the majority of issues — semantic HTML, accessible names, keyboard support, focus management, color contrast, and ARIA used correctly.
Smoke-test what they build with a screen reader before handing it to QA.

What is Accessibility?

Explain what are some common types of disabilities. Describe various adaptive technologies that enable people with disabilities to access computers and the Internet. Finally, cover the different kinds of problems with rich Internet applications that hinder the use of such adaptive technologies.

Accessibility testing and fixing - Quick start

3 hours of hands on exercises to teach you the tools and techniques required to test for accessibility problems and how to avoid and fix the most common pitfalls.

Bring this workshop to your team

Contact us to schedule a session for your team, request customization for your tech stack or component library, or ask about combining this quick start with our deeper 2-day accessibility testing primer or 3-day accessibility workshop.