E-books

Heydon Pickering, Inclusive Design Patterns, and Inclusive Components

Inclusive Design Patterns looks at design issues associated with implementing numerous elements such as skip links, labels, buttons, etc. required for accessibility. Inclusive Components picks up where Inclusive Design Patterns left off, focusing on precise instructions about how to take the legos you learned how to use in the first book and build a palace with them.

Laura Kalbag, Accessibility for Everyone

You make the web more inclusive for everyone, everywhere, when you design with accessibility in mind. Let Laura Kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design. Leverage tools and techniques like clear copywriting, well-structured IA, meaningful HTML, and thoughtful design, to create a solid set of best practices. Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned pro, get sure footing on the path to designing with accessibility.

Online courses

Introduction to Web Accessibility (W3C WAI)

In this course, you will learn about the international standards for web accessibility from the W3C – including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Internet Applications – and first steps in applying them.

This course consists of 5 modules covering the following topics:

• Module 1: What is Web Accessibility

• Module 2: People and Digital Technology

• Module 3: Business Case and Benefits

• Module 4: Principles, Standards, and Checks

• Module 5: Getting Started with Accessibility

Accessibility fundamentals (Microsoft)

Technology can empower people to achieve more, help strengthen education opportunities, and make the workplace more inviting and inclusive for people with disabilities. And with more than 1 billion people with disabilities in the world, Microsoft believes accessibility and inclusion are essential to delivering on our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Don’t forget to share your awards on social media after completing each module!

Modules in this learning path

• Introduction to disability and accessibility

• Microsoft Accessibility Features and Tools

• Creating accessible content with Microsoft 365

• Digital accessibility

An Introduction to Accessibility and Inclusive Design (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

This course introduces some of the fundamental principles of accessibility and prepares learners for further study in accessibility and inclusive design. Learners will have an opportunity to explore the major types of disabilities and related assistive technology and adaptive strategies, the most salient contours of the legal landscape, and the major principles that guide universal design and accessible content creation.

Google’s Accessibility course

In this course you’ll get hands-on experience making web applications accessible. You’ll understand when and why users need accessibility. Then you’ll dive into the “how”: making a page work properly with screen readers, and managing input focus (e.g. the highlight you see when tabbing through a form.) You’ll understand what “semantics” and “semantic markup” mean for web pages and add ARIA markup to enable navigating the interface with a range of assistive devices. Finally, you’ll learn styling techniques that help users with partial vision navigate your pages easily and reliably.