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Make Your Web Content Accessible

How do people with disabilities interact with the web using assistive technologies? In this course, you'll assess for web accessibility barriers using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and design with digital inclusion in mind, from visual design to interactions.
DifficultyEasy6 hours
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If you’ve ever wondered how you can make your content accessible to more people, what can create barriers for users, or how you can better support users with disabilities in interacting with your websites, you’re in the right place!

In this course, you’re going to learn what accessibility means on the web, how people use assistive technologies to interact with digital content, and how inclusive design benefits all of us.  You’ll learn the requirements for creating accessible web content and how to test them using automated tools, manual techniques, and assistive technologies. You’ll learn the principles of accessible design and how they apply to typography, color, media, and interactions. And you’ll learn to design more inclusively from the very start and communicate your accessible designs across teams.

In the first two parts, you’ll get an in-depth understanding of some of the key considerations for making accessible content, and how and where to look for potential accessibility barriers. In the last part, we’ll get to the really fun stuff, and you’ll have the chance to integrate everything you learned by designing an accessible web page.

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Learning outcomes

  • Understand digital inclusion
  • Assess accessibility barriers on the web
  • Design accessible web content

Requirements

Prerequisites: None. This course is open to everyone!

Contributors

Instructors

Thomas Dimnet

Computer Science Teacher | AI Data Trainer | Software Engineer nx.academy | tdimnet.medium.com

Lisa Liskovoi

Inclusive designer and digital accessibility specialist from Toronto, Canada.

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Last updated: 1/23/2025

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Design

Make Your Web Content Accessible

DifficultyEasy6 hours
Free-access course