Web Accessibility: Practical Guide

Name: Web Accessibility: Practical Guide
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Learn practical step-by-step guide to website accessibility meeting WCAG

Created byDr. Sohaib

Last updated 10/2020

English

What you'll learn

Learn why web accessibility is essential and who it affects.
Understand WCAG 2.1 principles, guidelines and success criteria.
Understand the WCAG three levels of conformance.
Select and carry out web accessibility tests.
Evaluate WCAG 2.1 and generate a structure report.
Understand organisational policies development on web accessibility.

Course content

5 sections • 17 lectures • 3h 38m total length

Introduction2:15
This lecture introduces the course and what you will learn.
Why Web Accessibility is important?15:52
This lecture explains what is Web Accessibility and why Web Accessibility is Important? Also, the lecture discusses the different types of disabilities and website accessibility issues.
What is WCAG?7:18
This lecture defines web accessibility and introduces web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG).
Quiz 1 (Introduction)

WCAG overview10:07
This lecture provides the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) overview and discusses what you will learn from this module.
Quiz 2 (WCAG overview)
Design Principle 1: Perceivable26:02
This lecture provides an overview of the design principle 1: perceivable and it's guidelines and success criteria. Perceivable refers to directing the user to perceive the user interface components so that people can see the content or hear it.
Design Principle 2: Operable28:16
This lecture provides an overview of the design principle 1: operable and it's guidelines and success criteria. Operable means, for example, user interface components and navigation must be operable such as, keyboard accessible
Design Principle 3: Understandable19:52
This lecture provides an overview of the design principle 3: understandable, and it's guidelines and success criteria. Information and the operation of the user interface must be understandable.
Design Principle 4: Robust7:52
This lecture provides an overview of the design principle 5: Robust, and it's guidelines and success criteria. This principle describes that content must be robust enough that a wide variety of assistive technologies can interpret it.
Practical Example22:10
This lecture provides an example website on how to improving a site using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Both the accessible and inaccessible versions are demonstrated with annotations. The link to this example is in resources.
Quiz 3 (WCAG Criteria)

Module overview1:50
Here I present the overview of what you will learn in this module.
Easy Check - Initial Review of Web Accessibility18:11
This lecture discusses some easy checks to start to assess the accessibility of a web page. With these simple exercises, you can get an idea of whether or not accessibility is addressed in even the most basic way.
Automated Web Accessibility Testing Tools17:28
This lecture presents the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List available online that help you determine if web content meets accessibility guidelines.
Web Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator19:18
This lecture presents the WCAG report tool to helps you follow the steps of evaluation methodology to generate a structured report from the input that you provide.
Practice Activity5:23
This lecture presents a practice activity for you to complete in your available time. This hands-on exercise will help you to apply the knowledge and skills you gained from this course. The activity description and the template to follow is available in resources.
Quiz 4 (Testing)

Key Recommendations8:40
This lecture provides key recommendations for implementing web accessibility techniques according to WCAG conformance. These recommendations contain good practices of web accessibility align with WCAG success criteria. These key recommendations can serve as a checklist to meet some minimum criteria for designing accessible content. A PDF file containing the key recommendations with links to the official WCAG 2.1 success criteria is available in resources.
One Question

Requirements

Basic knowledge of how websites are build is beneficial, but not mandatory.

Description

Why this Course?

Web accessibility is vital for organizations that want to design high-quality websites and not exclude people from using their online services.

Accessibility is required by law, and in most developed countries, all government-funded organizations' websites must be accessible, so you need the core skills and knowledge to become a web accessibility specialist.

In this course, you'll get the basics needed to obtain compliance with international best practices in accessibility, the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1/2.2. The WCAG is endorsed by governments such as Australia, Canada, and the EU.

What will I learn?

In this course, I provide learning activities such as quizzes and hands-on exercises so that you immediately apply the concepts you learn.

The course is a practical step-by-step guide to web accessibility meeting WCAG. First, You'll understand when and why users need accessibility. Then you'll dive into how to make a website accessible following WCAG guidelines. You'll then learn what easy accessibility checks mean for web pages and how to perform automated accessibility testing. You'll also learn how to prepare a structure report for decision-makers to help ensure effective accessibility evaluations. Finally, I provide some key recommendations in-line with WCAG success criteria that can serve as a checklist for meeting web accessibility. You can practice the content using the exercises available.

This course also includes a bonus lecture to familiarize you on how to develop organizational policies on web accessibility.

All the information presented are based on the Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) available online.

Who this course is for:

Students interested in web accessibility
Web developers
Web writers, editors and publishers
UX Designers
Online business owners
Online business managers
Policymakers

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 25min

WCAG Overview6 lectures • 1hr 54min

Web Accessibility Evaluation (Testing) and Report Generation5 lectures • 1hr 2min

Recommendations1 lecture • 9min

Conclusion2 lectures • 8min

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