Accessibility: How to Design for All
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited about creating accessible products people love! Prioritizing accessibility naturally improves everyone's experience. For example, video captions don't just help people with hearing impairments. They also help anyone who watches videos in a noisy space, with sound off, or in a non-native language. With over 1 billion people living with disabilities, your design decisions will open—or close—the door to millions. If you want to tap into a massive, underserved market and build your reputation as an inclusive, impactful designer, this course is for you.
Make yourself invaluable by mastering how accessibility can accelerate product success and, in addition, protect your brand from legal risks. Accessibility isn't just good for people with disabilities—it's great for business. Happier users lead to greater impact, loyalty, and the kind of salary that reflects your value. You'll learn how to demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) of accessibility and easily build a compelling business case. You'll confidently design for a wide range of disabilities and easily create smooth experiences everyone loves.
Gain confidence and credibility as you implement Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the ready-to-use Accessibility Screener template. With expert guidance and step-by-step templates, it's simpler than you think! You'll immediately be able to apply these insights across all roles and industries. Unlike tools that come and go, accessibility skills are timeless. Designing for humans never goes out of style, which makes your career future-proof and protects you against AI. You don't need a specific background. You'll get a deep understanding of how design impacts usability for everyone through interviews with an accessibility specialist with visual impairment. Even without any prior experience, you'll effortlessly optimize code with practical techniques like Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) markup and alt text for images. This course gives you the skills to master compliance standards and create products with improved usability for everyone.
It's Easy to Fast-Track Your Career with the World's Best Experts
Master complex skills effortlessly with proven best practices and toolkits directly from the world's top design experts. Meet your expert for this course:
Frank Spillers: Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics.
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Why Learn Accessibility?
Accessibility falls under the umbrella term of User Experience (UX) design. UX design is your fast-track to a meaningful, secure, and rewarding career.
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UX design builds on your core human strengths, such as emotional intelligence, deep human understanding, critical thinking, intuition, and imagination.
AI can't replicate your uniquely human ability to design for real emotions and needs such as joy, comfort, curiosity, safety, and a sense of belonging. These deeply human insights are your superpowers. With UX design skills, you'll turn them into products and experiences people truly love. You become irreplaceable, confident and in demand.
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Salaries for people with design skills are soaring, often surpassing $200K in cities like San Francisco, and job growth is strong (13% globally). Why? Because companies thrive when their users are happy. Companies that invest in great design outperform the S&P 500 Index by a whopping 228%.
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Great design is all about helping people meet their needs and achieve their goals through intuitive, meaningful, and delightful experiences. Skills in design will empower you to create experiences and products that make people's lives easier and more fulfilling. And when people love what you create, your business thrives, and your salary potential grows. You get the ultimate double win:
You'll feel deeply fulfilled by designing experiences and products people love.
You'll be financially rewarded for your real-world impact.
Course Overview: What You'll Master
- Each week, one lesson becomes available.
- There's no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
- Estimated learning time: 41 hours 9 mins spread over 6 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: An Introduction to Courses from IxDF (37 mins)
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0.2: Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (2 mins)
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0.3: How to Get Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.4: Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (12 mins)
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0.5: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (2 mins)
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0.6: Gain Timeless Skills Through Courses from IxDF (21 mins)
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0.7: Mandatory vs Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.8: Learn Smarter: The Perfect Mix of Video and Text (6 mins)
Lesson 1: Accessibility Basics
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1.1: Accessibility: Why It Matters (50 mins)
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1.2: Conversations (6 mins)
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1.3: Ten Principles of Accessibility for Web and Mobile Design (49 mins)
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1.4: How Accessibility Impacts Usability and SEO (15 mins)
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1.5: Interview: The Impact of Poor Accessibility (1 hour 1 min)
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1.6: Experiencing Accessibility Issues With Each Disability Type (20 mins)
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1.7: What Poor and Good Accessibility Looks Like (50 mins)
Lesson 2: Steps to Gaining Compliance
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2.1: Using Automated Tools: Pros and Cons (49 mins)
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2.2: Following the Guidelines: Pros and Cons (45 mins)
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2.3: Getting Compliant: Section 508 Issues and Lessons (55 mins)
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2.4: Identifying Your Compliance Requirements: A, AA, AAA (27 mins)
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2.5: How to Use WCAG 2.0 Guidelines: Theory vs Practice (24 mins)
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2.6: Conversations (6 mins)
Lesson 3: Optimizing Your Code
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3.1: Code Optimization Basics and Opportunities (16 mins)
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3.2: Images: All about Alt + Contrast (1 hour 47 mins)
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3.3: Keyboard (24 mins)
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3.4: Focus Control + Layout Considerations For UX Designers (32 mins)
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3.5: Forms, Tables and Search (39 mins)
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3.6: 3rd Party Content (38 mins)
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3.7: Pop Ups + Iframes (18 mins)
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3.8: HTML5, CSS + ARIA (18 mins)
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3.9: ARIA Markup (15 mins)
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3.10: Javascript (12 mins)
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3.11: Dynamic Content: Infographics, Animations, Audio Descriptions, Video, Live Events (37 mins)
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3.12: Designing Accessible Navigation (1 hour 0 mins)
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3.13: Recap (16 mins)
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3.14: Exercise: Accessibility Analysis (6 mins)
Lesson 4: Meeting Accessibility Design Challenges
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4.1: Toward Accessible Interaction Design (2 hours 56 mins)
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4.2: Exercise (6 mins)
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4.3: Interview: Visual Bias e.g. Maps (14 mins)
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4.4: Exercise (6 mins)
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4.5: Web Site and Web Application Issues and Tips (1 hour 9 mins)
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4.6: Interview: Social Media Accessibility Experiences (31 mins)
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4.7: Mobile Accessibility Issues and Tips (1 hour 50 mins)
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4.8: VR/AR Accessibility Issues and Tips (1 hour 22 mins)
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4.9: Plain English and Copywriting Tips for Inclusive Design (35 mins)
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4.10: PDF Accessibility and Document Accessibility Experiences (23 mins)
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4.11: Elderly and Senior Users (1 hour 0 mins)
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4.12: Recap (39 mins)
Lesson 5: Inclusive Design Strategies and Tactics
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5.1: Approaching Inclusive Design and Compliance (35 mins)
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5.2: Identify Your Audience: Disability Personas (54 mins)
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5.3: Interview: Accessibility Needs to Be Built into Design and Dev from the Start (39 mins)
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5.4: Conversations (6 mins)
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5.5: Building an Accessibility Program in Your Organization (49 mins)
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5.6: ROI of Accessibility (47 mins)
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5.7: Recap (39 mins)
Lesson 6: Accessibility Testing
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6.1: How Does Accessibility Testing Differ From Other Kinds of Testing? (29 mins)
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6.2: Assistive Technologies: Test Tools (36 mins)
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6.3: Accessibility Testing: How to Conduct Access Testing (5 hours 33 mins)
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6.4: Tips for Recruiting Users; Moderating Tests: Assessing and Taking Action on Feedback (48 mins)
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6.5: Interview: Accessibility Testing in Action (1 hour 1 min)
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6.6: Quality of Accessible Experience: How Far Should You Go? (38 mins)
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6.7: Conversations (6 mins)
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6.8: Evaluating Your Accessibility Level: Feeling Confident With Accessibility Optimization (26 mins)
Lesson 7: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Rich McNabb, New Zealand
“Frank's knowledge is amazing. Because he's constantly working with people with disabilities and usability testing, his examples are based on real-world examples making them so much more relatable and valuable. An Academic with experience is a great combination.”

Nicena Fontaine, Canada
“I feel like I received an in-depth overview of a lot of accessibility challenges and design-related issues, as well as how to test and resolve those issues as much as possible. Additionally, the other resources that were used & provided in the course helped me go back and build on the materials provided in the course. The interviews throughout the course were helpful in bringing a more empathic understanding of accessibility impacting real humans.”

Diogo Costa, United Kingdom
“The instructor has clear and defined communication throughout the whole course. Making everything clear and understandable and therefore the course was great and very structured.”
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