Accessibility Courses & Certifications (Free and Paid)

Free Accessibility Courses

• ADA Website Compliance Kit
  This ADA Compliance Kit helps you follow the three most important best practices for ADA Compliance:
  • Make your website is WCAG 2.1 conformant
  • Publish an accessibility statement
  • Provide methods for support and feedback
• Abra Academy – Kick-off Training Accessibility
• Accessible Documents: Word, PowerPoint, & Acrobat
  Scholarship programs available for persons with disability.
  This independent-study online training covers principles and processes for- Creating accessible document content and structure in Word & PowerPoint; Evaluating the accessibility of well-structured Word & PowerPoint documents; Optimizing the accessibility of PDFs exported from well-structured Word & PowerPoint documents with Acrobat and Creating accessible document content and structure in Excel (bonus module).
• Accessible Word Document Training
  Welcome to the State of Minnesota’s free e-Learning program on how to create accessible documents. While it focuses on Microsoft Word, you can apply its principles to any digital document creation tool, such as Google Docs.
• An Introduction to Accessibility and Inclusive Design
  This course introduces some of the fundamental principles of accessibility and prepares learners for further study in accessibility and inclusive design. Learners will have an opportunity to explore the major types of disabilities and related assistive technology and adaptive strategies, the most salient contours of the legal landscape, and the major principles that guide universal design and accessible content creation.
• Assistive technologies and online learning
  In this free course, Assistive technologies and online learning, 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.
• Accessibility Learning Platform – AudioEye
  Learn how to champion accessibility in your organization and create exceptionally accessible digital experiences with our 100% free, expert-led accessibility learning platform.
• Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education
  This course provides instruction and strategies to support you in developing a course that is inclusive to students with a wide range of abilities, including students with disabilities. We cover effective practices to increase inclusion and avoid some of the common accessibility issues that can arise in an online course.
  In particular, Basics of Inclusive Design Online covers course organization, the accessibility of Microsoft Office and PDF documents, making course instruction pages accessible, captioning of videos, making images accessible, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can help all students, including students without disabilities. This course will appeal to those who want both a broad overview of the range of accessibility considerations and also a step-by-step guide of how to check documents for accessibility, caption a video, or prepare course content for non-visual users.
• Digital Accessibility Foundations-Free Online Course
  The Digital Accessibility Foundations online course provides the foundation you need to make your digital technology accessible, so that it:
  • Works well for people with disabilities
  • Meets international standards
  • Enhances the user experience for everyone
  • Achieves goals
• Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice
  Many business leaders and managers understand why digital accessibility is important for business. There are many arguments that make clear the benefits of digital accessibility, and how it affects a business’s bottom line. Despite this understanding, some leaders are unsure where to start, and need help with the what and how of implementing digital accessibility throughout their organizations.
  Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice is a free three-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed by the Digital Education Strategies team at Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, in partnership with the Government of Ontario’s Enabling Change Program. This course 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.
• Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society
  With a better understanding of users’ needs, technologies can be developed to be accessible & provide a more inclusive environment.
• Google’s Accessibility course
  In this course you’ll get hands-on experience making web applications accessible. You’ll understand when and why users need accessibility. Then you’ll dive into the “how”: making a page work properly with screen readers, and managing input focus (e.g. the highlight you see when tabbing through a form.) You’ll understand what “semantics” and “semantic markup” mean for web pages and add ARIA markup to enable navigating the interface with a range of assistive devices. Finally, you’ll learn styling techniques that help users with partial vision navigate your pages easily and reliably.
• Google’s Udacity Accessibility course (text version)
  This document set is a text-based version of part of the content covered in the Udacity course on Accessibility. Rather than a direct transcription of the video course, it is meant to be a more concise treatment of accessibility principles and practices, using the course’s original content as a base.
  • Learn about advanced accessibility techniques for creating polished accessibility experiences.
  • Learn how to include basic accessibility with minimal development impact.
  • Learn how to make websites accessible and usable for everyone.
  • Learn what accessibility means and how it applies to web development.
  • Learn what HTML features are available and how to use them to improve accessibility.
• Google’s Udacity Web Accessibility – Developing with Empathy
  This course provides hands-on experience in making web applications accessible. You’ll learn about the importance of accessibility for users, and delve into the practical aspects such as ensuring proper functionality with screen readers and managing input focus. You’ll also explore the concept of “semantics” and “semantic markup” for web pages, and learn how to incorporate ARIA markup to enhance navigation for assistive devices. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into styling techniques that facilitate easy and reliable navigation for users with partial vision.
• Introduction to Course Accessibility
  This resource provides an introduction to online course accessibility for faculty, staff, and instructional designers. The content is self-paced and will not have an instructor facilitating the learning and use of the resource. Within this resource, reasons for building and maintaining accessible courses are contextualized, explained and demonstrated. Emphasis is given to the use and evaluation of features within a Learning Management System (LMS) as a platform for both content delivery and student engagement. Participants in this course also learn to create downloadable files using templates that are pre-formatted for accessibility. These include both Microsoft PowerPoint and Word files that can be used to disseminate accessible course content such as lectures, slides, syllabi, and readings.
• Introduction to Inclusive Digital Design 
  The University of the Sunshine Coast, in collaboration with the Centre for Accessibility Australia, has co-developed a free short course that provides an introduction to inclusive design. This course will cover 6 online modules, where you’ll be introduced to the concept of inclusive design and guided through the importance of inclusivity in your digital business operations.
• Introduction to Web Accessibility
  Get a strong foundation in digital accessibility to make your websites and apps work well for people with disabilities, meet international standards, and provide a better user experience for everyone.
• Introduction to Web Accessibility
  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. This course will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), 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.
• LinkedIn Courses
  A compilation of courses that cover topics such as web accessibility standards, accessibility testing tools, accessible design patterns, and accessibility best practices.
• Learn Accessibility
  An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.
• OpenU UK Accessibility of eLearning
  This free course, Accessibility of eLearning, introduces the challenges for disabled students who may use computers in different ways when taking part in eLearning or may need alternative teaching methods. It covers the technology and techniques used by disabled students, the adjustments to teaching methods that might be reasonable, design decisions which affect the accessibility of eLearning tools and strategies for evaluation.
• Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy
  There is increasing demand within many businesses for Web accessibility auditing expertise, but there is a shortage of necessary knowledge and skills.
  Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy – a new online course developed by Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, in partnership with the Government of Ontario’s EnAbling Change Program – will help web content editors and web developers to quickly build the knowledge, skills, and practical experience needed to effectively support an organization’s web accessibility compliance efforts.
• Ryerson University: Introduction to Web Accessibility
  This course will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), 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.
• Section 508 Trusted Tester Conformance Test Process Version 5
  Trusted Tester Version 5 (TTV5) provides a code-inspection based test approach for determining web content conformance to the Section 508 standards. This test process incorporates all tests in the ICT Testing Baseline. The baseline tests established the minimum steps required to determine compliance with Revised 508 standards and WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA. Test instructions that are specific to Trusted Tester only are identified with *TT-specific* or “[no baseline].”
• Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today by Marcy Sutton
  Accessibility (or a11y) is an important but often neglected in the world of web development. Many developers find themselves coding user interfaces without any knowledge of keyboard or screen reader requirements.
  The fact is that accessibility doesn’t happen by accident. Often it is seen as too hard or time consuming. This doesn’t have to be the case. By following a handful of high-value patterns and practices, we can open our web apps to humans that otherwise wouldn’t be able to interact with them at all. This course will introduce you to accessibility through hands-on, technical examples that are way more effective than reading 10-year-old static web content.
• Teach Access
  Welcome to the Teach Access Tutorial! This resource is part of the Teach Access Initiative, and provides best practices for making accessible mobile and web apps. This tutorial currently provides basic training for developers and designers, with more disciplines to come! If you are new to accessibility, you’ve come to the right place – the following material will help you get a solid footing on accessibility via hands-on exercises and useful reference guides.
• Understanding Document Accessibility
  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 course will review a wide range of document authoring applications, and the tools they contain for creating accessible documents, and testing 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
  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.