Introduction to Web Accessibility WCAG 2.1

Note. Our course material is continually evolving. This course will be updated for free throughout 2020 and is the one stop shop for everything you need to begin building accessible websites. This is the best online web accessibility course available at a very affordable price.

This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of web accessibility and how to apply those techniques to websites that you create. The modules are organised into categories grouping accessibility techniques to the relevant parts of a web page.

Each lecture explains one accessibility concept only and after every lecture there is a quiz to complete followed by the end of module activity applying all you’ve learnt onto a demo website. Most lectures are approximately 5 minutes long with no lecture being over 10 minutes in length.

You will learn:

An overview of web accessibility guidelines and WCAG 2.1

Build the structure of a page using a skeleton of accessibility support

Create content in an accessible way

Improve the structure of web forms using accessibility best practice error handling and validation patterns

Apply accessibility techniques to a demo website hosted on GitHub

This course gives you practical reusable patterns and best practice accessibility examples to apply to your projects. Web accessibility is fast becoming a required skill when developing for the web. The accessibility guidelines can be difficult to understand and challenging to apply. It’s often left up to developers to try and do their best making content accessible by attempting to read and understand very complex technical guidelines.