Creating Accessible Websites

Achieve WCAG compliance by learning accessibility testing, WAI-ARIA, and website optimization for screen readers

What you'll learn:

• Creating accessible websites
• Working with WAI-ARIA
• Designing color blind friendly pages
• Creating interfaces that can be accessed with the keyboard
• Achieving WCAG compliance

This course has professional captions (subtitles) for all lectures.

Successful web developers come in all shapes and sizes, but an understanding and respect for all of the different people they're developing for is crucial. If you want to jump from a "good" to a "great" web developer, you must know web accessibility!

This course is your practical, step-by-step guide to creating accessible websites and web interfaces. At the end of this course, you will be able to make your portfolio accessible and offer your clients a website upgrade that adheres to web accessibility standards! In addition, since all government websites must be accessible, you will have the skills to work in that field and gain access to a greater amount and variety of clients!

We will start with the basics--WAI-ARIA, color accessibility, the tabindex, HTMLsemantics, etc--and then make a real life website accessible step by step.

Are you ready to begin your journey into web accessibility? Start here!

Students are encouraged to contact the instructor with any guideline questions for fully fledged help and course support.