Online Accessibility Courses

The courses below are organized by role. Some courses contain multiple modules, which we suggest completing together. We recommend everyone start with General Digital Accessibility Principles to get a good introduction to accessibility.

Unless specified otherwise, these courses are available in both the UCOP Learning Center and the Siteimprove Training Academy:

For Everyone

  1. General Digital Accessibility Principles: A basic awareness course
    1. Module 1 - Understand Accessibility (25 min.)
    2. Module 2 - Guidelines and Legal Considerations (25 min.)
    3. Module 3 - Starting Your Accessibility Program (12 min.)
  2. Making Accessibility a Priority: Getting support, assigning roles, auditing for compliance
    1. Reasons to Make Accessibility a Priority (30 min.)
    2. Review Your Digital Presence (10 min.)
    3. Understand Accessibility Roles (20 min.)
    4. Put Your Accessibility Knowledge into Action (20 min.)
  3. Making Accessible PDFs: Creating/converting documents, testing
    1. Accessible PDF Background (18 min.)
    2. Create Documents and Convert to PDFs (10 min.)
    3. Working in Your PDF (12 min.)
    4. Testing PDFs (15 min.)
  4. Accessible Documents: Creating accessible content, software considerations
    1. Accessibility and Documents (10 min.)
    2. Software Considerations (10 min.)
    3. Creating Accessible Content in Documents (10 min.)
  5. Accessibility for Microsoft Office Learning Path
    1. Accessibility for Outlook (30 min.)
    2. Accessibility for PowerPoint (30 min.)
    3. Accessibility for Excel (30 min.)
    4. Accessibility for Word (30 min.)

For Technologists

  1. Accessibility for Developers Part 1: Basics, images, tables, multimedia
    1. Module 1 - Understanding the Developer Role (10 min.)
    2. Module 2 - Accessibility Basics for Developers (20 min.)
    3. Module 3 - Images for Developers (20 min.)
    4. Module 4 - Tables for Developers (50 min.)
    5. Module 5 - Multimedia for Developers (15 min.)
  2. Accessibility for Developers Part 2: Navigation, structure, coding, CSS, color, forms
    1. Module 1 - Navigation and Structure for Developers (10 min.)
    2. Module 2 - Coding for Developers (30 min.)
    3. Module 3 - Applying CSS for Developers (10 min.)
    4. Module 4 - Using Color for Developers (10 min.)
    5. Module 5 - Designing Forms for Developers (10 min.)
  3. Testing for Accessibility: Automated testing, manual testing, reporting
    1. Accessibility Review (30 min.)
    2. Automated Testing (10 min.)
    3. Manual Testing (10 min.)
    4. Additional Testing (10 min.)
    5. Reporting (10 min.)
  4. WCAG 2.1: New and Improved: a discussion about the 2018 Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.1 additions.

For Procurement

  1. Accessible Purchasing: Evaluating and purchasing accessible products
    1. Prepare
    2. Evaluate
    3. Select

For Designers, Marketers, & Content Contributors

  1. Accessible Multimedia: Transcripts, captions, descriptions, and additional requirements
    1. Intro to Accessible Multimedia (10 min.)
    2. Transcripts, Captions, and Descriptions (10 min.)
    3. Additional Multimedia Requirements
  2. Accessibility for Designers: Style, images, color
    1. Role of the Designer (15 min.)
    2. Using Style for Design (20 min.)
    3. Designing the Layout (15 min.)
    4. Images and Color for Designers (30 min.)
    5. Designing Forms (20 min.)
  3. Accessibility for Marketers: Branding, content, images, multimedia
    1. Role of Marketers
    2. Content is King in Marketing
    3. Accessibility in Branding (60 min.)
    4. Images in Marketing
    5. Marketing with Multimedia (15 min.)
  4. Accessibility for Content Contributors: Formatting, images, tables, and accessible documents, audio, and video
    1. Understanding the Content Contributor Role (10 min.)
    2. Formatting for Content Contributors (25 min.)
    3. Images and Tables for Content Contributors (50 min.)
    4. Accessible Documents, Audio, and Video for Content Contributors (10 min.)

For Instructors

  1. Accessibility for the Classroom: Writing/formatting content, images and color, multimedia
    1. Understanding the Instructional Designer Role (40 min.)
    2. Writing and Formatting Content for Learning (30 min.)
    3. Images and Color in the Classroom
    4. Multimedia to Supplement Learning