Books
Introduction to Web Accessibility: Essential Accessibility for Everyone by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. Much of the current information on Web accessibility requires some technical understanding, and may be difficult to consume for the average person. The instruction here will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience. You will have an opportunity to experience barriers firsthand, then experience that content with the barriers removed, developing a practical understanding of web accessibility.
What You Can Do to Remove Barriers on the Web: Making Websites Accessible by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
This book accompanies the Accessibility Maze, a game developed to teach the basics of web accessibility for those new to the topic. Or, for anyone else who wants to see how fun learning about web accessibility can be. You should try the maze before reading this book, to get the full effect of the game.
Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy: Essential Skills for Web Developers, Content Creators, and Designers by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
Digital accessibility skills are in high demand, as the world becomes more aware of barriers in digital content that prevent some people from participating in a digital society. These are essential skills for web developers, and essential knowledge for organizations that want to ensure their web content is reaching the broadest audience possible.
Understanding Document Accessibility: A Reference for Creating Accessible Office Documents by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
With much of the world gone digital, learning to create documents that are accessible to everyone is becoming a necessary skill. Intended for a general audience, this free resource reviews a wide range of document authoring applications, including the tools they contain for creating accessible documents, and tests them to ensure they do not contain potential barriers. Learn how to create accessible word processed documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and PDF documents, among others, so they are accessible to everyone.
Web Accessibility for Developers: Essential Skills for Web Developers by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
Web Accessibility for Developers is a technical resource aimed primarily at programmers. Learn how to develop accessible interactivity on the Web and gain expertise using WAI-ARIA, a W3C specification that enables optimal use of assistive technologies, like screen readers, when navigating the Web.
Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice: Essential Skills for Business Leaders by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
This resource provides business leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively enable digital accessibility in an organization through cultural change, raising awareness of its importance, and equipping employees with the specific tools and knowledge they need to address digital accessibility as part of their everyday work.
Accessible Numbers: A guide to presenting numbers and data clearly. Created and managed by Laura Parker.
Many live with the limitations of not understanding numbers and the impact that has on everyday life, like managing money, arranging appointments, doing calculations and telling the time. Use the accessible numbers design system to improve your product or service.
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Dolmage
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center.
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions by Susan Burch
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and U.S. social and cultural history generally.
Courses
Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society
Future Learn: 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
This course will help you to understand how those with sensory, physical and cognitive impairments may be disabled by barriers encountered when using digital technologies. The course will highlight how the use of accessible and inclusive design can help overcome many of these difficulties.
Assistive technologies and online learning
Open Learn: 8 hours
In this free course, you will explore some of the technology that disabled students use when accessing computers. We will take a look at the tools and techniques that make it possible for disabled students to engage with online learning.
Reference
For everyone design
A library of high-quality resources for designers. Also check out A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions.
Trauma-informed design resources
A library with books, articles, courses, frameworks and more for learning about trauma, trauma-informed care, and digital design.
Neurodiversity Design System
A set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.
Chatbot Accessibility Playbook
Includes suggestions for selection, testing, and designing (content, interface, and integration) a chatbot.
Accessibility (A11y) Project
Guides for building basics, conducting an audit, and cultivating community.
Guiding Principles for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable Data Publishing
By Force11, the Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship.
Code and tools
A11yphant
Learning accessibility through coding challenges.
Button Buddy
Create buttons with accessible contrast.
Text on image accessibility checker
Test if foreground color accessibility is sufficient over a background image.
Who Can Use
Test color combinations for different color blindness types.
200% font-size zoom
A javascript bookmarklet to test for font-sizing.
A11y Outline
A tool that provides the page outline as seen by a screen reader with landmarks, headings, links, form fields, and buttons.
A11y Tools
A random collection of accessibility-oriented web tools.
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