Singular Accessibility Training Courses

Customize your accessibility training by selecting the courses that address your immediate needs.

TPGi has a wealth of options for training. Choose the modules that make the most sense for your team and that align with your accessibility goals.

You’ll pay for only what you need and can fill education gaps for multiple roles without paying for unnecessary courses.

Each webinar is 90 minutes; you can purchase as many webinar modules as you want. Remote sessions can be spread out over several days or weeks, which we would recommend to maximize attendee attention and focus.

Download the Word document with all modules.

General / All Roles Training

Is your team new to accessibility? Unsure where to begin? This module serves as an introduction to the topic of accessibility with an emphasis on what it means to be accessible, the people that need it, and how we measure it.

Topics include:

Overview of Accessibility
Types of disabilities and specific accommodations
Legislation and Guidelines

Recommended audience: all stakeholders

Assistive Technology, or AT, comes in many different forms. In this session, TPGi will look at various assistive technologies used by people with disabilities and how such users utilize them in daily life.

Topics include:

What is AT and how does it work?
Who needs AT?
Types of AT
- Hardware
- Software
- Operating System / Built-in accessibility considerations
AT Demos

Recommended audience: all stakeholders

This session provides an overview of the Section 508 regulations and effective strategies for incorporating them into Federal agency electronic information best practices.

Topics include:

Accessibility laws including the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
The history and timeline of Section 508
A comparison of the original versus revised Section 508 standards

Recommended audience: all stakeholders

UX and Design

Accessibility is more effective when it’s “baked in” to the design. In this module, attendees learn how to ensure their processes include all accessibility requirements.

Topics include:

Annotating designs for accessibility
Why early integration of accessibility is important
Incorporating accessibility into a Definition of Done
When and how to involve disabled users in the design process

Recommended audience: UX and interaction designers

This section digs into the techniques that designers employ to ensure their work is accessible for end users.

Topics include:

Overview of WCAG and Guidelines specific to design
Design considerations
- Page structure and navigation
- Content and focus order
- Ways to use images
- Using color
- Iconography and typography
- Visible Focus
- Form labeling and error messages
Inclusive Design principles

Recommended audience: UX and Visual designers

The best way to ensure your products work for all users is to test with real people.

Topics include:

The value of research with people with disabilities
Addressing challenges in recruiting people with disabilities
Ensuring inclusive common research methods
Identifying opportunities for involving people with disabilities in user research

Recommended audience: UX designers, Researchers

Content

This session will outline the requirements for creating accessible multimedia, both from a content perspective and a technical one.

Topics include:

Multimedia basics
Captions and transcripts
Audio descriptions
Moving, blinking, flashing content

These principles (and others) will then be applied to social media and how posts to these platforms can be made as accessible.

Platforms include:

Facebook
Twitter
Snapchat
Instagram

Recommended audience: Content Creators, Social Media Managers

When producing content via a content management system (CMS) or a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, creators have limited access to source code and other underlying elements that affect accessibility, so what can they control? This session will dive into elements of accessibility that content creators should be considering when producing new content.

Topics include:

Text content
- Links and Navigation
Images
Color and Contrast
Document structure
Email accessibility

Recommended audience: Content creators

Development

HTML elements all exist for a reason. If used correctly, these elements convey important information to assistive technologies. This module will examine semantic structure, including headings and other structural elements and how it impacts the accessibility of your work.

Topics include:

Structural elements including
- Landmarks
- Headings
- Lists
- Tables
Logical Document Structure

Recommended audience: Developers

This module focuses on images, how we use them, and how people interact with them.

Topics include:

Functional, Decorative, and Informational images
Text alternatives
Icon fonts
Complex images
- Charts and graphs
- SVGs
- HTML5 Canvas Elements

Recommended audience: Developers

Not everyone uses a mouse. So how do we ensure that everything we do with a mouse can also be accomplished with a keyboard? This module will discuss issues surrounding keyboard accessibility and focus control, including document source order & intended interaction order, and keyboard accessibility of controls.

Topics include:

Keyboard accessibility basics
Focusable controls
Custom controls
Focus order and managing focus
- Single Page Application (SPA) considerations
Visible focus
Keyboard traps

Recommended audience: Developers

Unfortunately, HTML doesn’t provide us with an element for every component we commonly use. When HTML alone can’t convey the role of a component, some assistive technology users might not know how to interact with it. This is where we need Accessible Rich Internet Applications, or ARIA, to help make these components understandable to assistive technologies.

This module will provide an overview and introduction to WAI-ARIA techniques as well as dynamically updating content.

Topics include:

What is ARIA
Roles, States, Properties
Common Components and Expected Behavior
Custom Components
Dynamic Updates

Recommended audience: Developers

We use a lot of forms on the web. We use them in many ways, including (but not limited to) allowing our users to contact us, purchase products, or to sign in to or register for accounts.

This session covers everything a developer will need to know to ensure their web forms are accessible.

Topics include:

Form fields and labelling
Grouping fields
Form instructions
Error handing & error messages
Time limits/timeouts

Recommended audience: Developers

Mobile

In this session, TPGi will discuss basic techniques and considerations that developers can use to ensure their native Android apps are accessible.

Topics include:

Content structure
Text enlargement
Navigation
Role, Name & State
Images
Forms
Alerts & Notifications
Keyboard access
Unit testing

Recommended audience: Android application developers

In this session, TPGi will discuss basic techniques and considerations that developers can use to ensure their native iOS apps are accessible.

Topics include:

Content structure
Text enlargement
Navigation
Role, Name & State
Images
Forms
Alerts & Notifications
Keyboard access
Unit testing

Recommended audience: iOS application developers

This session takes a “user-focused” approach to mobile accessibility testing. While showcasing the various accessibility options available on mobile devices, we will discuss how to test the mobile web and native apps for accessibility (both Android and iOS).

Topics include:

Mobile Accessibility Overview
Testing Tools
AT and Settings Evaluation
Evaluation Tips & Techniques

Recommended audience: Mobile developers, QA Testers

Document

Regardless of the source or authoring tool, there are some basic fundamentals that go into creating an accessible document. This session will explore these common elements and their impact on the user within Microsoft Word, with additional examples in PowerPoint, InDesign, and Excel.

Topics include:

Document Properties
Document Structure
- Headings, lists, tables, etc.
Meaningful Links
Images and Non-text Content
Color Contrast
Accessibility Checker
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