NDEAM Resources: Courses on Accessibility

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)! All month long, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite resources on accessibility and disability inclusion in the workplace.

This post features some of my favorite courses on accessibility. (Did you miss my post on accessibility courses on LinkedIn Learning? Click here to read more!)

I’ve taken the courses below to expand my own knowledge on accessibility.

• Accessibility: How to Design for All – Interaction Design Foundation: By understanding that accessibility is about more than just optimizing code, you’ll find you can build it into your design process to ensure you are taking a disability advocacy approach and keeping the focus on your users throughout the development process. This course will help you approach accessibility from all angles. You’ll gain practical, hands-on skills that’ll enable you to assess and optimize for common accessibility issues, as well as place an emphasis on the quality of the user experience by avoiding classic mistakes. You’ll also gain the knowledge to conduct effective accessibility testing by working with users with disabilities.
• Introduction to Digital Accessibility – Interaction Design Foundation: Most of the internet is still inaccessible to those who use assistive technology to access the web. As a creator or contributor to developing a digital experience, you can change that. By creating usable experiences for people at the margins, we end up creating better experiences for everyone.
• Microsoft Accessibility Fundamentals: Technology can empower people to achieve more, help strengthen education opportunities, and make the workplace more inviting and inclusive for people with disabilities. Accessibility and inclusion are essential to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This program features several courses that cover accessibility in Microsoft products, for both users and content creators.
• Accessibility of eLearning – OpenLearn: This free course introduces the challenges for disabled students who may use computers in different ways when taking part in eLearning or may need alternative teaching methods. It covers the technology and techniques used by disabled students, the adjustments to teaching methods that might be reasonable, design decisions that affect the accessibility of eLearning tools, and strategies for evaluation.

What about disability inclusion in the workplace? Stay tuned for my next post on courses about disability inclusion.