Short trainings 60-90 minutes
These are some of the short (60-90 minute) learning sessions 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.
About these short sessions
- Audience: product managers, business and engineering leaders, user researchers, designers, developers, testers, content authors, and anyone in your organization who needs a focused introduction to a specific accessibility topic.
- Format: 60 to 90 minutes of live, instructor-led training delivered remotely over Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Most sessions blend presentation, demo, and short hands-on activities or Q&A.
- Group size: best suited for 20–25 participants per session to encourage discussion and questions; larger audiences are possible for purely presentation-style sessions on request.
- Schedule options: book a single session, or combine multiple sessions into a custom learning track for your team.
- Language: English.
- Customization: examples, demos, and discussion topics tailored to your industry, product, and audience on request.
- Materials provided: slides and, where applicable, hands-on exercise files and reference handouts that participants can keep.
- Accessibility of the training itself: live captions, accessible slides and exercise files, and reasonable accommodations available on request.
- Session recording: available on request for participants who cannot attend live.
- Prerequisites: none unless noted on a specific session below.
Bring these sessions to your team
Contact us to schedule one or more of the sessions below, build a custom learning track from multiple sessions, or request a topic tailored to your team that is not listed here.
Accessibility basics for designers (90 minutes)
Level: 100 Audience: designers Format: Presentation, demo, and hands on exercises This 90 minute session combines our “Designing products for accessibility: Tenets and traps” and “Meet a real screen reader user as they navigate the Web” trainings into a single accessibility foundations course tailored for designers.
Learning objectives
This course helps designers build a foundational understanding of accessibility by pairing the POUR principles with the common pitfalls that cause inaccessible designs, grounded in a live demo of a real screen reader user.
- Understand what is accessibility.
- Learn about types of disabilities and assistive tools used by people with different disabilities.
- Watch a demo of a real screen reader user navigating the Web.
- Learn about the POUR principles of accessibility.
- See examples of common accessibility problems – Traps!
- Discuss tenets of good design.
- Practice tenets and traps with hands on exercise/quiz.
Demystifying Accessibility
Level: 100 Audience: Product and business leaders Format: Presentation
Learning objectives
This course helps product leaders understand the accessibility ecosystem.
- 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.
The Disability spectrum
Level: 100 Audience: Product and business leaders, designers, developers, and testers Format: Panel discussion
Learning objectives
This course helps learners gain an appreciation of the impact accessibility has on people’s lives and how it helps build better products.
- Understand what is accessibility.
- 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.
Designing products for accessibility: Tenets and traps
Level: 100 Audience: designers and developers Format: presentation and hands on exercises
Learning objectives
This course helps designers and developers have a basic understanding of the common pitfalls that cause inaccessible designs and how to avoid them.
- Understand what is accessibility.
- Learn about types of disabilities and assistive tools used by people with different disabilities.
- See examples of common accessibility problems – Traps!
- Discuss tenets of good design
- Practice tenets and traps with hands on exercise/quiz.
Meet a real screen reader user as they navigate the Web
Level: 100 Audience: designers, developers, and testers Format: Demo
Learning objectives
This course helps designers and developers gain an understanding of the POUR principles of accessibility by watching a demo of how a real screen reader user traverses the Web.
- Understand what is accessibility.
- Demo of A Screen reader user using a Web page.
- Learn about the POUR principles of accessibility.
Tools to help you drive accessibility in your products
Level: 100 Audience: designers, developers, and testers Format: Demo and presentation
Learning objectives
This course helps designers and developers learn about some common accessibility testing tools.
- Learn about accessibility design self-assessment toolkit
- Learn about Accessibility Insights for the Web
- Learn about accessibility checker in MS Office
Usability not just accessibility
Level: 100 Audience: Product leaders, designers, developers, and testers Format: Presentation
Learning objectives
This course provokes a discussion of the importance of usability as opposed to bare minimum compliance for accessibility.
- Understand what is accessibility.
- Learn about the persona spectrum and how a more usable design for people with disabilities helps everyone.
- See examples of small changes in design that make a big difference.
- Discuss the importance of user research to gain insights into usability.
How to write good “alt” text for images
Level: 100 Audience: designers, developers, and testers Format: Presentation and hands on exercises
Learning objectives
This course gives learners best practices of solving one of the most common accessibility problems on the Web, Alt text for images.
- Understand what is “Alt” text for images.
- Understand what kind of images should be decorative and which should have alternate text.
- Learn the best practices of writing good “alt” text.
- Practice writing good “alt” text.