Description

A11yPals WCAG Deep Dive course is a detailed look at the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) covering both the principles as well as the technical implementations, and coding examples. If you are a designer, developer tester or accessibility specialist this is a course not to be missed.

This deep dive will have you in no time understanding the WCAG, understanding where the WCAG is limited and unwritten rules of best practice come into play. The course will offer insights into commonly misunderstood criteria, different ways criteria can be met, ways you can enhance beyond the WCAG criteria and most importantly the lessons others in the industry learnt along the way (as well as the pitfalls they faced).

Topics Covered

• What is the WCAG
• WCAG structure
• Where to go for detailed information
• Deep dive of POUR
• The high impact top 10 criteria which fail
• Patterns and Antipatterns
• Critical coding styles, user testing and auditing criteria
• Common errors and how to correct them
• Semantic HTML, CSS, WAI-ARIA and the Accessibility API. How they interact and how to master them.
• What about mobile technologies?
• Hands on activities for mastering complex techniques on websites and mobile apps.

Even if you are not a technical person, you will benefit from the level of detail on the WCAG in this course. Who knows, you may even decide that accessibility doesn’t seem all that hard and want to upskill on new tools.