Hone your online skills and learn about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in this free online course. Modern-day web design and development is fundamental to how we experience the online world and web accessibility is the cornerstone of these disciplines. In this free online web accessibility course, you will get a detailed overview of why web accessibility is important, who it helps, the kind of technologies involved in creating accessible interfaces and how to apply the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 196014 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 5-6 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Create an accessibility toolkit • Identify key accessibility standards in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0/2.1 • Retrieve WCAG 2.1 supporting documents when needed • Employ web-based automated accessibility checkers • Experience barriers from the perspective of a person with a disability • Use a screen reader to navigate the Web • Understand how WCAG principles apply to web content |
| Course Code | 2965 |

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