Introduction to Web Accessibility WCAG 2.1
Introduction to Web Accessibility WCAG 2.1
Learn web accessibility and apply best practice WCAG 2.1 accessibility patterns and techniques to your websites
Created by Ross Mullen | 3 hours on-demand video course
This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of web accessibility and how to apply those techniques to websites that you create. The modules are organised into categories grouping accessibility techniques to the relevant parts of a web page. This course gives you practical reusable patterns and best practice accessibility examples to apply to your projects. Web accessibility is fast becoming a required skill when developing for the web. The accessibility guidelines can be difficult to understand and challenging to apply. It’s often left up to developers to try and do their best making content accessible by attempting to read and understand very complex technical guidelines.
What you’ll learn
- Master the fundamentals of WCAG 2.1, including the 3 levels of conformance, the POUR concepts and sufficient techniques
- Create solid document hierarchies with HTML5 landmark regions, headings, logical tab order sequences and semantic elements
- Build accessible content with descriptive images, understand how to determine accessible colours and layout tabular data with datatables
- Create accessible forms that include error and validation patterns using best practice WCAG 2.1 techniques
- Gain confidence and understanding of what it means to build an accessible website
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