Dig In To Web Accessibility

Keep digging deeper! Here are an assortment of resources, articles and courses -- free, paid, and with subscription.

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Courses

Free

• Web Accessibility: A free Udacity course created by Google.

With Subscription

• Accessibility in JavaScript Applications: A Frontend Masters course created by Marcy Sutton.
• Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today: An Egghead course created by Marcy Sutton introducing accessibility through hands-on, technical examples.
• Hacking Digital Styleguides for Accessibility: Type, Color, Imagery: A Skillshare course created by Tatiana Mac, focusing on the basics of accessibility with a design lens.

Paid

• Deque University: Deque is a digital accessibility company offering curriculum through their Deque Unniversity platform. Maybe useful in particular if you're specifically interested in becoming certified via the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.

Intro Guides

• WebAIM Introduction to Web Accessibility: A web accessibility introduction provided by WebAIM.
• Mozilla Accessibility Guide: A learning module on accessbility comprised of multiple guides, provided by Mozilla.

Resources

• The A11y Project is an open source accessibility resource site.
• A11y Weekly is a weekly newsletter with web accessibility content and news, curated by David Kennedy.
• A11ycasts is an a11y YouTube series by Rob Dodson.

Articles

• 24 Accessibility is a series of articles related to web accessibility. New content is published every day for the first 24 days of December each year.
• A List Apart (Topic: Accessibility). A List Apart is a web zine about web topics. These are all the articles published on A List Apart tagged with accessibility.

Communities

• The Web A11y Slack is a Slack team devoted to web accessibility topical discussion. Ask questions, share resources, get advice, etc. It used to have a landing page to request an invite, but that doesn't appear to exist anymore. @ me on Mastodon at amberley and I'll invite you!

Tools

The below includes things I reach for a lot. The A11y Project also has a comprehensive listing of resources.

• Lighthouse: An open-source automated tool for measuring web pages.
• WAVE: An accessibility testing tool made by WebAIM.
• Axe: An accessibility testing engine for websites and other HTML-based user interfaces, made by Deque.
• Accessibility Insights: A comprehensive, free set of testing tools from Microsoft, using Axe under the hood.
• Pa11y: A range of free and open source tools to help designers and developers make their sites more accessible (including a command-line interface, web dashboard, and CI integration tool).
• cypress-axe: A package providing commands for Cypress to run a11y checks with axe-core.
• Chrome DevTools color picker contrast ratio score: Check out this Egghead lesson to learn how to use the built-in color contrast ratio-aware color picker in Chrome DevTools.