How To Design for Accessibility: for UX Designers (WCAG 2.2) (Udemy.com)

Do you want to easily design accessible interfaces for digital products?

But maybe you’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of information out there about accessibility, or don’t know where to start for just the design side of things?

As a seasoned User Experience (UX) designer, experienced with Accessibility, I'm here to solve these issues for you! (Also, if you need to learn about WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 or your country's legal requirements this course has you covered! E.g. the U.S.'s Section 508 and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), India's Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) and Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPwD Act), the European Union's Web Accessibility Directive (EN 301 549) Web Accessibility Directive (2016/2102) and European Accessibility Act (2019/882), the United Kingdom's Equality Act (2010), or any others that are based on/reference the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

The Problem:

One of the big problems UX and Product Designers have is that, if we want to design accessible digital products, we have to dig through a HUGE stack of accessibility guidelines, and they tell us things like:

• For accessibility compliance, “a mechanism is available to allow the purpose of each link to be identified from link text alone, except where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general.”

• Or “Color is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.”

Does that give you clarity on how to specifically design an accessible interface and still look aesthetic? Not so much!

The Solution:

The solution, taught in this course, is a set of 51 essential best practices for designing accessible interfaces. And they are just the aspects of accessibility that apply to a designer’s job, which as a designer you are responsible for and have control over; we won’t get into the code.

This course is based on the latest WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 Guidelines, so you’re getting the freshest information. Whenever new guidelines are released this course is promptly updated.

10 things you will get out of this course:

Whether you design digital products yourself, or you oversee their design, with these best practices added to your toolbelt:

1. You will have a superior design process that enables you to design more accessible (and user-friendly) interfaces from the start.

2. You will be able to identify accessibility violations just by looking at an interface design!

3. You will stand out as an impressive, top-tier designer to your boss and clients (since few designers are well-versed in accessible design and accessibility for UX).

4. You will be loved by your developers for sending them mockups they don’t have to make accessibility changes to.

5. Your team will save time, and your client will save money, because there will be fewer changes needed at the end to meet accessibility compliance.

6. Your team and the client will be more safeguarded from lawsuits if and when your team has made a fully accessible digital product (because some groups can be sued for discrimination if their digital products do not meet accessibility and WCAG compliance).

7. You will receive an Accessibility certification. It certifies your completion of this training. Post your certification to your LinkedIn, list it on your resume or website, hang it next to your desk, and bask in your well-earned professional bragging rights!

8. You will be able to speak about Design Accessibility with confidence.

9. You will be prepared for any job that requires knowledge of designing for Accessibility.

10. You will be able to add this to your CV (put it under Professional Development as Accessibility for UX Designers, Udemy, and the year of completion). This will help you land a job!

This course is perfect for beginners!
Before starting, you don’t need any foreknowledge of accessibility (or WCAG, ADA, or usability).

If you've made up your mind about taking this course, just click the "Buy this course" button at the top. If not, keep reading :)

By the end of this course you will know:

The 51 best practices that fall within the TOP 3 areas of accessibility.

1. The first area is about color contrast, where you will learn 4 powerful best practices, including things like:

   • Do disabled elements need to have a certain level of color contrast (for accessibility compliance)?

   • How about button borders, logos, or UI controls (like toggle switches, checkboxes, and pagination)?

2. The second area is color independence which holds 10 best practices. Like:

   • How to design the display of error messages.

   • How to make color-coded data visualizations (like charts and graphs) accessible for people who can't see color, or tell the difference between certain colors.

3. And the third area is all about interactive elements. You’ll learn 37 awesome best practices, along with things like:

   • Why using links that say “read more” or “details” are a big mistake for accessibility, usability, and SEO; and what wording to use instead.

   • What’s the best shape for buttons, the optimal corner radius, and whether or not you should use shadows.

   • How the word “affordances” refers to the visual cues that indicate how to use physical objects, not digital ones. I’ll teach you the term you should be using instead.

Opportunities to apply what you're learning:

There will be activities, quizzes for you to test your own knowledge, downloadable resources, AND you will have me to answer any accessibility or usability questions you have along the way.

What's different about this course:

• This course is a compilation of concrete how-tos that you simply will not find in other online accessibility courses. I made the course I wish I had when I was first learning how to design for accessibility (and comply with WCAG, ADA, and Section 508).