WAI0.1x: Introduction to Web Accessibility

This course, offered by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and W3Cx (an online learning initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium), gives a strong foundation in digital accessibility, empowering students to make websites and apps work well for people with disabilities, meet international standards, and provide a better user experience for everyone.

Criteria

Earners of this certificate must complete the course, totaling 16-20 hours of content covering:

• What accessibility means, and how it’s essential for some people and useful for all

• The scope of web accessibility, and how it applies to a wide range of people and situations

• The business case, including how accessibility can expand market reach, demonstrate social responsibility, drive innovation, and minimize legal risk

• The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and other international standards for accessibility

• The principles of accessibility: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust (POUR)

• How you can check web pages for some basic accessibility issues and improve accessibility

• Approaches for planning managing accessibility in your project and in your organization

• Where to find W3C resources for developers and designers to implement accessibility

Documentation

• Credential: 95e87be68694477db7dd26f6330412e2

• Course page (archival)