Trainings

We conduct workshops and hands-on trainings on how to create accessible Web applications. We work with with our learners to customize the content to meet the learners where they are. Some of our trainings include:

Short trainings 60-90 minutes

These short (60-90 minute) learning sessions are provided by IAccessible for product makers, business leaders, user researchers, designers, and developers. Each session is best suited for an audience of 20-25 people to encourage learner participation. The topics help learners:

  • Understand what is accessibility.
  • Think about why you should make accessible products.
  • Learn about what is the global compliance landscape.
  • Understand why to build “with” users with disabilities and not “for” them.
  • Learn about types of disabilities and assistive tools used by people with different disabilities.
  • Gain empathy and appreciation for real-life impact by hearing from users with disabilities who use assistive technologies for their education, work, and day-to-day living.
  • See examples of common accessibility problems – Traps!
  • Discuss tenets of good design

Comprehensive 3 day Web accessibility workshop

This training helps Web developers, designers, and architects understand how to develop and test accessible Rich Internet applications that comply with the W3C accessibility guidelines.

2 day accessibility testing primer

Targetted primarily for the quality assurance engineers, this training helps learn the tools and techniques to test if a Web application is accessible and meets the various W3C guidelines compliance or other legal requirements, such as section 508 or ADA etc.

Half day workshops

A set of half day (approximately 4 hour) workshops tailored to different audiences:

  • Half day accessibility for designers — hands on workshop for designers covering how to annotate designs (headings, landmarks, accessible names, info and relationships, color contrast, mobile UX, and more) so that accessibility issues are prevented at the design stage.
  • Half day accessibility strategy workshop — for product and platform leaders making strategy and usability decisions. Provides an overview of disabilities, the business and legal drivers for accessibility, and what it takes to deliver accessible Web applications.
  • Half day accessibility quick start for developers — a 4 hour session giving developers a basic understanding of accessibility and how to test and fix the most common accessibility problems in rich Internet applications.