Web designer Online A11y learning & testing courses and tools

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Vaishnavi Jayakumar

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Jan 20, 2025, 11:52:51 PMJan 20
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Any IGNOU type free online courses for web accessibility ?

If not Indian - any free global courses we can showcase for India to introduce on similar lines?

+Srinivasu you had mentioned NIC tools and innovations - I distinctly remember a challenge competition to disallow inaccessible documents to be uploaded on website. Am unable to find it now.

Could you share links to the tools you were referring to?

Srinivasu Chakravarthula

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Jan 21, 2025, 12:05:27 AMJan 21
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BarrierBreak has a few free courses on https://ace.barrierbreak.com

W3C offers a free course on Edx.com

DequeUniversity has a few free courses and have a scholarship program for people with disabilities. 

There are many other free courses online. 

I’m not sure if NIC tools that I mentioned earlier are available on public domain. 

Beat,
Srinivasu 

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Arun Koormamtharayil

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Jan 21, 2025, 1:01:02 AMJan 21
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Most of the ones I know of are paid course / consultants. The UK govt has on demand seminars.

ay11:
Udemy: 
Accessibility: Learn the best practises to build all-inclusive websites.

Here are a free resources:
In the digital content space, here are some interesting tools:

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Accesibe
This is a company that provides accessibility consultation, suggesting ways to make the file/presentation/website accessible. 

They also have an extremely interesting widget that allows for customisation as per PwD profile (See white human figure icon on blue; bottom right of the page). Tools like these could. be built by the government.

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Venngage
Accessible Colour Palette generator. If one looks at tny text to background colour contrast ratio, - anything above 4.5.1 is a WCAG 'A' & ~ 10.0.0 is a AAA. Of course for the site to be AAA, navigation, screen reader compatibility,.. matter too.

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accessibleweb


Colour contrast checker

Anything that simplifies adoption, should be made modularised, like the API you spoke about. Either a company / the government provides it for others to use thereby lowering costs of bringing in accessibility.

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/Arun 

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