When we created AccessibilityTraining.com, we wanted to make sure everything was in place for large organizations to train their employees, staff, and contractors on digital accessibility. In this quick guide, we’ll explain why we think our accessibility training program is the best.
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Learn WCAG
Our learning platform features a full course on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) which is the absolute foundation for understanding digital accessibility. Even though WCAG is intended for web-based assets (e.g., websites, web apps, social media, etc.), the principles apply to all digital assets: software, documents, native mobile apps, etc.
Beginner-Friendly
What’s extra nice about our WCAG Course is it’s beginner-friendly so even non-technical people, with no accessibility background, can take the course and understand the requirements.
The course material contains video and text explanations, all of which are provided in plain English. And, where applicable, we’ve added model code examples, curated resources, and helpful tools and tutorials to help accelerate the implementation process and find helpful tools without having to search for them.
Self-Paced
Course students will also be able to progress through the training at their own pace. This means your team members can start whenever they’d like, pause, and then come back and pick up right with the lesson they stopped at.
Organized Structure
Different organization’s have different priorities when it comes to WCAG conformance. If your government agency is only concerned with Section 508 compliance, then it may just be WCAG 2.0 AA that you’re focused on.
However, if you’re a hospital covered under Section 504, the new rule from the Department of Health and Human Services requires WCAG 2.1 AA conformance.
And many of our clients want to go directly to full WCAG 2.2 AA conformance.
Our WCAG Course includes modules that divide the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines into each respective WCAG version’s success criteria. This way, your organization can start from the very beginning and work on foundational accessibility or, if your asset is already 2.1 AA conformant, skip right to the 6 new WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria and start implementing those.
WCAG Resources
We didn’t stop at the WCAG success criteria (i.e., requirements) either, we’ve added multiple cheatsheets and resources to serve as learning aids and supplements for your digital team. Our WCAG Course includes workflows cheatsheets for developer, designer, and content editor roles.
We’ve also included our master Excel spreadsheet WCAG 2 checklist with worksheets for each version.
Additionally, the course contains our WCAG in Chunks document which groups like success criteria together so that your team can save time and combine efforts when applying WCAG to your digital assets.
Assign Licenses
What organizations will also love is a representative can sign up for 3-50 licenses and delegate each of those licenses within the platform dashboard.
So for example, let’s say a corporation signs up for training for 18 members of their digital team. The corporation can sign up for 20 licenses of the WCAG Course and easily assign these licenses by employee email in just minutes.
And the course materials are on demand so as soon as your company’s developers, designers, content creators, social media experts, writers, etc. receive their license, they can immediately begin training.
Course Certificate
Additionally, students that complete all lessons inside the WCAG Course are eligible for a certificate of completion.
Lifetime Access
What’s also nice is our course is a one-time purchase that includes all updates we ever make to the course. There is no annual or monthly subscription, once you purchase the course, you’ll always have access.
This way, the focus is on learning and your team will always be able to reference the lessons to refresh their memory.
You can sign up and start the WCAG Course right now at AccessibilityTraining.com.
