Courses and Training Materials

The following are a curated list of available free courses and training materials on digital accessibility. We have excluded other courses that have a fee, and more technical ones based on web development.

• VPATAccessibility TrainingFundamentals Overview - InformationW3C          Technology
Industry
• Digital CouncilAccessibility Foundations - W3C
           

• Digital accessibility: the foundations - Jisc   Accessibility 101 – Accessible IT Group                   
  Digital Accessibility Training Courses Roundup • DigitalA11Y                    
  Course List    Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)             

    
  The little book of accessibility    Medium                
  Build & Test Accessible Web Apps    Testing Accessibility                
  Accessibilityfree for Webmembers Designotherwise |paid)

LinkedIn Learning                    

• Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices | LinkedIn Learning                   
  Teaching Accessible Computing                    
  Digestible WCAG                  
  Accessibility fundamentals - Training                    
  Accessibility - Learn web development | MDN                    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Accessibility
  Accessibility Fundamentals Overview    Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)                https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/
  Using this tutorial | Teach Access Tutorial                    https://teachaccess.github.io/tutorial/
  Accessibility Maze                    https://de.torontomu.ca/wa/maze.html
  WebAIM: Virtual Web Accessibility Training - Fall 2024                    https://webaim.org/training/virtual/
  OLCreate: PUB_8749_1.0 Digital Accessibility for Academic Libraries: Optimising Primo VE                    https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=12077
              
  Why incorporating accessibility is important | LinkedIn Learning                    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/epub-accessibility-using-indesign/why-incorporating-accessibility-is-important?u=83351972
  The ultimate guide to accessible PDFs | LinkedIn Learning                    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/creating-accessible-pdfs-14445392/the-ultimate-guide-to-accessible-pdfs?u=83351972
  Is your document accessible? | LinkedIn Learning                    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-accessible-pdfs-21974253/is-your-document-accessible?u=83351972
  Accessibility Overview - Introduction to Accessibility                    https://learn.udacity.com/courses/ud891/lessons/06723ea4-bc46-4211-b95e-be8f70709eee/concepts/063c9254-1b05-4764-9c0b-e111e5ed1593
  Web Accessibility | What is Web Accessibility? | Udacity                    https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility--ud891
  Accessibility courses and certification    Make Things Accessible                https://www.makethingsaccessible.com/guides/accessibility-courses-and-certification/
  Creating Accessible Resources: Creating accessible resources | Training and Development                    https://development.lancaster.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=446
  accessibility-developers | Training and Development                    https://development.lancaster.ac.uk/enrol/index.php?id=137
  DAISY Learning – Accessibility learning resources                    https://learning.daisy.org/
  Accessible Books Consortium Course on Accessible Publishing Concepts – DAISY Learning https://learning.daisy.org/?course=abc-course-on-accessible-book-publishing
  accessibility/a11y-courses      https://github.com/accessibility/a11y-courses
  Digital
• Accessibility FoundationsTraining Overview - FreeSection508.gov        Online
Course    Web
• Accessibility Initiativefundamentals (WAI)- https://www.w3.org/WAI/courses/foundations-course/
  FreshMicrosoft      Page
Training
• Accessibility https://www.freshpagetraining.com/
  Section508.gov101 https://www.section508.gov/training-home/
  – Accessible IT Group @ University of Illinois     
• Introducing the Leader’s Guide to Accessibility – Accessibility in governmentGovernment https://accessibility.blog.(gov.uk/2024/11/21/introducing-the-leaders-guide-to-accessibility/uk)      
• VPAT Training - Information Technology Industry Council
• Accessibility Maze - Toronto Metropolitan University
• Digital Accessibility for Academic Libraries: Optimising Primo E - The Open University Library        
• From Adobe InDesign to PDFs - European Union Publications (youtube)                  
  AllFrom Adobe InDesign to EPUB  - European Union Publications (youtube)       

 

You may also find these other curated lists of available courses |useful.

AbilityNet

https://abilitynet.org.uk/training
Certification
• Course OverviewList  https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/certification-overview
  - W3C
• Digital Accessibility Training Courses Roundup - DigitalA11Y           
• Accessibility courses and certifications - Make Things Accessible   
• Training - Accessibility manual https://accessibility.education.(gov.uk/uk)         
• Accessibility learning resources - DAISY Learning      
• accessibility/a11y-courses (github)     

There is some guidance on developing your own training
 from W3C: Curricula on Web Accessibility: A Framework to Build Your Own Courses  Web- W3C             

And professional certifications are available from IAAP: Certifications - International Association of Accessibility InitiativeProfessionals                                     (WAI)
 https://www.w3.org/WAI/curricula/             
Accessibility Essentials:   A
 2025         NISO Training Series | NISO website                    https://niso.org/events/accessibility-essentials-2025-niso-training-series
Digital accessibility: the foundations    Jisc                https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/training/digital-learning-modules/digital-accessibility-the-foundations
From Adobe InDesign to PDFs                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-tLkNAgBw
From Adobe InDesign to EPUB                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVD8165bJg