🏔 "Accessibility gets complicated." As we work more with people with lived experience and assistive technologies, our team asks more questions and wants to dig deeper. As that curiosity grows, we’ve made investments in training so we don’t miss out on the opportunity to add to our team’s culture. → Working with our accessibility partners, we’re consistently reminded that there's a range of lived experiences that demand empathy and research. → Screen readers and assistive technologies are complex technologies with nuance that require time and exposure. → WCAG guidelines while robust, can be very technical, very deep and require someone to map multiple needs across a massive amount of information. 🔍 With some research and help from our partners we’ve collected a set of resources for onboarding and training for our team: → Google Web Accessibility Course on Udacity provides an easy on ramp for folks to get some shared language and background into the basic concepts of accessibility. https://lnkd.in/gdCFJ2-C → Digital Accessibility Foundations W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and edX is a rare course on accessibility that provides considerations for designers and product managers to engage alongside more technical team members. https://lnkd.in/gASpZWdY → Deque University Certification Preparation from Deque Systems, Inc provides the go to certification training for engineering folks who are ready to get an official CPACC certification. https://lnkd.in/gp5rPu6J 💎 For other folks looking to setup your own resources for your team here are our big takeaways: → Make accessibility part of your team culture with simple onboarding material to get everyone on the same page. → Provide a range of resources to serve design, product and engineering team members to meet people where they are, including partnerships with organizations that can provide access to people with lived experience. → Advocate for the internal funding and work with your leadership team to consider the organizational value of getting folks on the team trained and certified. 👏 Thanks to Mike Gifford, CPWA from CivicActions for providing examples and guidance of what we rolled out for Exygy onboarding and training. 🙏 Thanks to Sean Dougherty from LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired for his invaluable input and continued partnership. #accessibility #accessibilitytraining #accessibilityonboarding
Patrick Leahy
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Everyone should take the W3C course. It makes accessibility easy to understand and puts in human terms.
That's great Jesse James Arnold. I put this together a while back, and it probably needs to be updated, but there are at least some other resources for folks to consider https://github.com/accessibility/a11y-courses That said, the 3 you've outlined are great. At CivicActions, I think about half of our staff have taken the W3Cx: Introduction to Web Accessibility.