Web Accessibility for Developers

Course details

Knowing how to design an accessible website is an essential skill for modern-day developers. This course dispels the mystery of web accessibility, demonstrates why accessibility matters, and shows you how to get started assessing, testing, triaging, and improving website accessibility.

Join instructor Donia Robinson as she provides an overview of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), part of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. Discover commonly used accessibility tools designed for both manual and automated testing, as well as how to test and triage accessibility issues related to compliance and conformance goals. By the end of this course, you’ll be prepared to repair and test accessibility issues wherever they arise, retesting as needed for additional improvements.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Take the mystery out of web accessibility
02 - Why accessibility matters

1. Accessibly Access a Website

03 - Your keyboard and computer
04 - NVDA and JAWS

2. Understand Accessibility Standards

05 - Introduction to WCAG
06 - Perceivable
07 - Operable
08 - Understandable and robust
09 - Challenge - Find information on WCAG
10 - Solution - Find information on WCAG

3. Accessibility Tools

11 - Manual testing
12 - Automated testing
13 - Helper tools

4. Test and Triage Accessibility Issues

14 - Identify conformance goals
15 - Do automated testing
16 - Do targeted manual testing
17 - Triage issues
18 - Challenge - Run axe on a website
19 - Solution - Run axe on a website

5. Repair and Test Accessibility Issues Again

20 - Repair accessibility issues
21 - Retest after repairs

Conclusion

22 - Next steps

Web Accessibility for Developers

Authors

Donia Robinson