Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy

This course will help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to develop Web sites, Web content, and Web applications that comply with international Web accessibility requirements. These requirements help ensure that people with disabilities are able to participate fully.

By the time you complete this course, you should be able to: 

• Create an accessibility auditing toolkit. 
• Identify and apply key accessibility guidelines in WCAG 2.0. 
• Retrieve WCAG 2.0's supporting documents when needed. 
• Employ Web-based automated accessibility checkers. 
• Measure and/or assess Web design elements such as colour contrast, readability, and others using a range of publicly available test tools. 
• Test for accessibility using assistive technologies such as the JAWS and ChromeVox screen readers. 
• Apply easy manual tests to quickly assess accessibility. 
• Select an appropriate type of Web accessibility audit and corresponding reporting strategy aimed at the audience being served. 
• Recognize relevant accessibility guidelines, standards and specifications and integrate these into accessibility review strategies based on international requirements.

Badge Requirement

Participants who successfully complete the four required course assessments and participate in all course activities will receive a digital badge.

Module 1 An Overview of Web Accessibility 
Unit 1 Aspects of Web Accessibility Auditing 
Unit 2 Introduction to WCAG 2 

Module 2 Automated and Manual Testing Strategies 
Unit 3 Automated Review Tools 
Unit 4 Manual Testing 

Module 3 Assistive Technology and User testing 
Unit 5 Assistive Technologies 
Unit 6 Introduction to User Testing 

Module 4 Web Accessibility Audit Reporting 
Unit 7 Web Accessibility Reporting 
Unit 8 Other Accessibility Standards