Web Accessibility: Getting Started
This course covers essential design, coding, and testing procedures for Web designers and developers who want to make their sites and applications accessible to all.
What you'll learn
This course discusses what constitutes a disability when it comes to the Web and how different disabilities/issues affect the way in which people with them use the Web. We will see how designers and developers can make better design decisions to help those with disabilities/issues use their products, cover coding techniques that aid assistive technologies which enable them to better interact with their site or app, and discuss current Web accessibility guidelines and what we can do to meet them. Also, we will explore tools for testing the accessibility of our products that will show us how well we are doing and, in some cases, even allow us to simulate how users with disabilities will experience them.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- The Proper Document Structure 2m
- Images & Accessibility 2m
- Content & Accessibility 2m
- HTML Attributes & Accessibility 2m
- Web Forms & Accessibility 3m
- Accessible Keyboard Control 4m
- CSS & Accessibility 5m
- Performance & Accessibility 4m
- Progressive Enhancement & Accessibility 1m
- Summary 2m
About the author
Brian Treese is the Chief of UX at SoCreate, a company building a fun and easy way to turn great ideas into movie & TV show scripts. Technically a Web Designer (he's always loved the aesthetic side of the web), but his expertise does not stop at Photoshop and Illustrator. He's been building websites for over a decade using technologies such as HTML, CSS, SASS, SVG, JavaScript, Angular, jQuery, ASP.Net, PHP, and more. While he very much enjoys building things, he also loves to learn and he finds ... more