Creating Accessible Websites
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
Course content
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Requirements
- HTML
- CSS
- JS
Description
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, HTML semantics, 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.
Who this course is for:
- Freelancers
- Web Studios
- Any web developer interested in web accessibility
- Web/front-end developers who want to improve their skills
- Developers/web studios who want to stand out from their competition
Instructor
![Stefany Newman](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 643 Reviews
- 5,916 Students
- 5 Courses
Meet Stefany
In my free time, I like to read books (history, historical fiction, philosophy, classics), knit, decoupage, re-watch Star Trek, learn languages (programming and human). I like board games (Go, 1775, Exploding Kittens) and computer ones (Age of Empires, Final Fantasy, Bioshock) I am also a karaoke superstar :-)
I started as a full-stack developer - wanted to learn everything from Java to database design. As time passed, I realized I can’t be everything all at once so I switched to front-end development.
AMP Journey
I had to learn AMP for a project and I fell in love with it. Fast and accessible, and you could build complex websites without JavaScript, which was great for me since I wanted to focus on semantics and presentation.
I became an AMP developer, reading and practicing AMP all the time.
Accessibility Journey
Like every other web developer, I had a lot of misinformation about accessibility, thinking that it was only needed if your target audience is disabled. When I found out that most of the websites are inaccessible and that accessibility is the last thing on our minds, I read more about it and realized how vital it is for a good web experience.
Since then, I concentrate on creating accessible AMP websites.
MODx Journey
Like every other developer, my first CMS websites were made with WordPress. I disliked how easily they could be hacked and as I continued freelancing, I’d get requests from new clients to “clean their WordPress website from malware”. Almost every WordPress developer / webmaster I met had one or more websites hacked.
I also disliked how error prone WP was and how one little mistake can shut down your website.
Then I discovered MODx!
MODx is my favorite CMS and I use it when clients need to update the content themselves. It is so secure and fast!
For clients who don’t need to update their content themselves, I build static sites.
You can contact me in English, Bulgarian and Dutch. I can also understand Russian.