How to boost your accessibility prowess
Annie Mannion | 18 Jan 2021If you work in a digital team you will possibly be using the month of January to consider your professional development plans for 2021.
Improving your accessibility knowledge is an important and desirable attribute that will benefit you and your team, so to develop your skills in digital accessibility and inclusivity have you considered our affordable online training courses?
AbilityNet's role-based approach to training gives each member of your digital team the insights and skills they need to embed accessibility in every project from the start. We have courses designed for content editors, designers, developers, testers, project managers, higher and further education professionals, and leadership.
We have confirmed details of our upcoming Accessibility and Inclusive Design online training through to the end of March 2021:
- 21 January - Introduction to digital accessibility - FULLY BOOKED
- 28 January - Accessibility for designers
- 04 February - How to create accessible documents and presentations
- 10 February - How to grow your accessibility maturity
- 11 February - PDF accessibility
- 25 February - Accessibility for copywriters
- 04 March - How to produce accessible videos
- 11 March - How to use a screen reader for accessibility testing
- 17 March - How to deliver and sustain accessible digital learning
- 18 March - Embedding accessibility at every stage of your project
- 25 March - Creating accessible graphs and social content
"The course was fantastic"
"The training was delivered well and was extremely informative, with lots of useful examples shown."
"Great, really well paced."
"Structure, layout, content and timing of delivery is perfect."
Last year we ran 28 courses, with 905 attendees learning valuable insights into accessibility best practice.
Here's a taster of some of the hints, tools and techniques you will learn on one of our courses - this clip is from our 'Creating accessible graphics and social content' session in 2020, running again on 25 March 2021.
Here's the useful NoCoffee Vision Simulator tool in action, in recent online training with #accessibility expert @straydogstrut7.
— AbilityNet (@AbilityNet) January 13, 2021
Book now for our upcoming, affordable courses aimed at a range of roles and learn how to check for accessibility issues: https://t.co/uhACYD4J3j pic.twitter.com/7bNqbQKvch
Find out more about AbilityNet's training courses
Download our training brochure to share with your team
Further resources
- Keep up to date with our Accessibility Insights sessions and accessibility news on the AbilityNet newsletter
- Unsure where to start with digital accessibility? Speak to our experts for help.
AbilityNet provides a range of free services to help disabled people and older people. If you can afford it, please donate to help us support older and disabled people through technology