Accessibility for Web Design
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Make the digital world more accessible to visitors with disabilities and impairments. Learn web accessibility techniques to make sure your web designs are easy for everyone to use.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Making the digital world accessible
- An ecommerce purchase
- Personas
- The use of color
- Color contrast
- Animation, movement, and flashing
- Proximity and grouping in design
- Effective visual focus indicators
- Keyboard functionality
- Avoiding keyboard traps
- Linear flow of content
- Accessibility and touch
- Target sizes
- Working with gestures
- Working with audio and video
- Understanding media types
- The importance of text equivalents
- Accessibility for complex visuals
- Labeling forms
- The placeholder attribute
- HTML5 form inputs
- Form validation and error messaging
- Flexible vs. fixed width designs
- Responsive design and accessibility
- Designing for text resizing
- Content hierarchy and headings
- The importance of page titles
- Page structure
- A challenge for you
Taught by
Derek Featherstone
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