Accessibility Learning Hub Courses

Summary

The Accessibility learning path in the Learning Hub includes courses covering accessibility fundamentals, WCAG standards, compliance, testing, remediation, accessibility for specific roles, document accessibility, mobile accessibility, and Siteimprove accessibility tools. Courses vary in length from 5 minutes to 2 hours and are available primarily in English, with select courses also offered in German.

What Accessibility courses are available in the Learning Hub?

Accessibility Auditing Websites for Complaint Resolution

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: There has been a marked increase in the number of complaints and lawsuits regarding web accessibility. Institutions and businesses all over the world are facing complaints and lawsuits for inaccessible websites. If you find yourself having been served a complaint or lawsuit, this course will teach you skills for auditing your site for compliance.

Accessibility Code Checker

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: Learn to use Siteimprove's Accessibility Code Checker to automate checks, identify issues early, and ensure web accessibility standards are met before publication.

Accessibility for the Classroom

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: This course introduces the fundamentals of accessible content creation for learning in the classroom, focusing on the role of instructional designers and key strategies that benefit all learners. Through practical guidance and checklists, you'll learn how to write, format, and design content—from documents to multimedia—that meets accessibility standards and enhances the learning experience for everyone.

Accessibility for Content Contributors

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Learn the roles and responsibilities of writers, editors, page owners, and other content contributors as they relate to web accessibility. Content contributors learn how content choices such as color, links, images, tables, and multimedia can impact the user experience. Learn how to make accessibility part of your regular design process, whether you’re building new pages or retrofitting existing content.

Accessibility for Documents

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Examine how documents play a role in accessibility. This course focuses on the accessibility guidelines you should use with an authoring program like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or Pages. Each program is slightly different in how you apply accessibility, but the principles are the same. This course is aimed at anyone that makes documents that will be posted online.

Accessibility for Designers

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: While a web developer makes a designer’s vision a reality, there are many accessibility guidelines that a designer can directly address—including creating style, determining placement, and working with color. This course examines all the ways designers affect accessibility.

Accessibility for iOS Apps

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:30hr

Description: This course equips you with the foundations of accessibility in iOS native apps and practical techniques to design and develop native mobile experiences that are inclusive and intuitive for all users.

Accessibility for Marketing Emails

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Many organizations make their websites inclusive for people with disabilities, but have you thought about potential accessibility issues with your marketing emails? In this course, you’ll learn how to make accessibility part of your email marketing strategy.

Accessibility for Marketers

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Marketers work through web pages, emails, documents, media, and surveys—all of which should be accessible to the largest audience possible. Any user who has difficulties reduces an opportunity for a sale, so this course teaches marketers how to incorporate accessibility into their daily work.

Accessibility for Multimedia

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Depending on your industry, making accessible multimedia may not only be the right thing to do, but may also be required by law. This course provides a practical guide to making multimedia content accessible and compliant with WCAG standards. You will explore how to create and evaluate transcripts, captions, audio descriptions, and media player features to ensure multimedia accessibility. Additional focus is placed on preventing sensory-related barriers, including issues with color, and flashing content.

Accessibility for Outlook

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: Learn skills you can start using today to make your Microsoft Outlook emails more accessible for everyone.

Accessibility for PDFs

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Learn about the accessibility guidelines you should use when creating a new document with an authoring program like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. After the PDF is generated, we will walk through the accessibility features in Adobe Acrobat DC and conclude with some tests you can perform to verify if the PDF is accessible. This course is designed for anyone who creates documents intended for online publication.

Accessibility for PDFs with InDesign

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:20hr

Description: This course is geared toward anyone who uses InDesign to create documents, whether they’re posted online or not! Learn to create accessible PDFs using InDesign, covering compliance, color, graphs, and remediation.

Accessibility for PowerPoint

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: Learn skills you can start using today to make your Microsoft PowerPoint decks more accessible for everyone.

Accessibility for Purchasing

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: This course introduces you to making accessibility an integral part of your purchasing process to benefit your users and your organization. Learn to evaluate vendors, set clear accessibility requirements, and build sustainable procurement practices that support inclusive digital experiences.

Accessibility for Social Media

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Many organizations make their websites accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities, but have you thought about potential accessibility issues with your social media efforts? There are ways to be conscious about it and try to reach your widest possible audience, and in this course, you’ll learn how to make accessibility part of your everyday social media strategy.

Accessibility for Virtual Classrooms

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: This course provides you with practical strategies, best practices, and tools to design inclusive and accessible online courses that support the needs of all learners, from structure and visuals to multimedia and interactive elements.

Accessibility for Word

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: Learn skills you can start using today to make your Microsoft Word documents more accessible for everyone.

Accessibility for Excel

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: Learn skills you can start using today to make your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets more accessible for everyone.

Accessibility Fundamentals for the Web

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: This course provides a high-level overview of general accessibility principles as well as guidelines, the disabilities that accessibility benefits, legal implications, and assistive technologies.

AI Remediate

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: AI Remediate helps to make your teams more efficient and effective in addressing accessibility issues by providing AI-powered code recommendations right within the Siteimprove platform.

Accessibility as a Priority in Your Organization

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Learn how to review your digital presence for compliance and how to gain support for making accessibility a priority within your organization. This course addresses how to audit the current technology, contacts, and staff knowledge you have in place, and where to go from there.

ARIA Challenges

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: This course will strengthen your skills and understanding of ARIA by guiding you through hands-on exercises to create accessible, high-quality web experiences.

ARIA Fundamentals

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 02:00hr

Description: Unlock the power of ARIA to create more accessible, user-friendly websites. In this course, you'll gain practical skills and learn proven best practices to confidently implement ARIA in your code, ensuring an inclusive user experience while avoiding common accessibility pitfalls.

Accessibility Site Target Score

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: Learn how to utilize the Siteimprove Accessibility Site Target Score tool to set, analyze, and achieve goals for optimizing your sites accessibility.

Accessibility Testing for the Web

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: No automated tool can test for all accessibility errors. While automation is beneficial and can expedite identifying coding errors, there are some items that must be checked manually. This course will discuss how to make automated and manual testing an integral part of your web accessibility process.

Accessibility Testing in your Organization: A Holistic Approach

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 02:00hr

Description: Web accessibility is not a one-time project, but rather an integral process for your overall business strategy. For accessibility to be sustainable in the long term, you need much more than some accessibility knowledge. You need leadership buy-in, an allocated budget, a transparent design and development process, and a culture that is willing to change.

Accessibility for Web Developers - Part 1

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Accessibility issues on the website tend to fall into two categories: issues for content contributors and issues for developers. Developers work with HTML coding to create page templates, tools, and applications. This first course in a two-part series introduces web developers to the essential principles of digital accessibility and their critical role in building inclusive websites. Developers will explore how different disabilities impact web use, understand key accessibility standards like WCAG.

Accessibility for Web Developers - Part 2

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 01:00hr

Description: Accessibility issues on the website tend to fall into two categories: issues for content contributors and issues for developers. Developers use HTML coding to create page templates, tools, and applications. This course is the final part of a two-course series and is designed for developers ready to put accessibility principles into action. You’ll learn how to structure accessible navigation and page elements, use HTML and ARIA correctly, and apply CSS and JavaScript techniques that support access.

Disability Inclusion for the Workplace

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: Learn about different types of disabilities and how to ensure there is respect and inclusion for those who have them.

Empowering Accessible Experiences with Siteimprove.ai

Language: English, German
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: Organizations face common accessibility challenges, and Siteimprove.ai helps users understand issues, prioritize fixes, validate image descriptions, and track progress with modules like DCI and Site Target Score, so teams can improve accessibility with more confidence and clearer direction.

Exploring the Accessibility Module

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: Accessibility can feel uncertain when few people are trained in it, but many are responsible for it. This course combines key functions of the Siteimprove Accessibility module into a practical, inspiring guide to help you discover where you stand, what to fix, and how to move forward with confidence.

Fundamentals of Alt Text

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: The most common question we hear is “What do I need to put in alt text for this image?” This is an easy skill to learn, and one that everyone online should know how to do.

Fundamentals of Descriptive Transcripts

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: Learn the fundamentals of creating descriptive transcripts and why they are important to include with your content.

Progress Reporting

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:20min

Description: Organization leaders want to see results over time for proof of progress. In this chapter, you will learn to define meaningful metrics and use Siteimprove.ai to track, analyze, and communicate progress over time. You’ll learn how to align reporting goals with the right compliance and performance metrics, use dashboards and key scores in reporting, and build focused reports that highlight trends, ownership, and impact.

Siteimprove.ai Compliance: Visibility that Drives Action

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:10min

Description: Learn how the Compliance page helps you monitor your accessibility status under the EAA and ADA Title II, identify issues, and track progress over time. This short course gives you the clarity you need to assess compliance, manage risk, and build more inclusive digital experiences.

Utilizing the Accessibility Code Checker

Language: English, German
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: Discover how Siteimprove's Accessibility Code Checker empowers your team to integrate accessibility checks early in development. Learn to automate issue detection, foster collaboration across teams, and ensure your website meets compliance standards, delivering a seamless and inclusive user experience before going live.

Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA)

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:05min

Description: Learn key details about the European Accessibility Act and how to assess your organization for compliance.

Using Mobile Accessibility Testing

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: This course is designed for anyone who wants to integrate accessibility testing into their mobile app development workflow. It walks you through every step to confidently use Siteimprove's Mobile Accessibility Testing tool, from setup to issue identification and remediation. By the end of the course, you 'll be equipped to proactively catch and resolve accessibility issues, ensuring more inclusive apps from the start.

Accessibility with WCAG 2.1

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:30min

Description: This course provides a discussion about the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) 2018 Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.1 additions.

WCAG 2.2 Accessibility

Language: English
Estimated Time to Completion: 00:15min

Description: WCAG 2.2 Accessibility is a comprehensive learning experience that familiarizes you with the latest success criteria outlined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. You will engage with real-world scenarios to gain practical skills to create inclusive digital experiences for all users.