Training and Tutorials

Virginia Tech Training

Virginia Tech's Accessible Technologies group provides regular workshops on topics related to assistive technologies and web and document accessibility, most often offered through the university's Professional Development Network, but also delivered to targeted audiences, separately.  We also award Accessibility Professional Certification Grants to qualified individuals.  Grant recipients receive in-depth training and are awarded a valuable professional certification upon successful completion of the program.

LinkedIn Learning Training

Additionally, Virginia Tech provides access to the LinkedIn Learning online video training library (requires VT PID login), which provides a number of courses (or sections of courses) on topics related to web and document accessibility, including:

• Accessible Video: Caption, Search, and Compliance Strategies
• Accessibility for Web Design
• Accessible Video: Caption, Search, and Compliance Strategies
• Acrobat DC: Creating Accessible PDFs (2015)
• Advanced Accessible PDFs
• Android App Development: Accessibility
• Creating Accessible Documents in Microsoft Office
• Creating Accessible PDFs
• Customizing Macs for Accessibility and Ease of Use
• Customizing Windows 10 for Accessibility and Ease of Use
• Digital Accessibility for the Modern Workplace
• EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
• Foundations of Accessible Elearning
• iOS App Development: Accessibility
• Practical Accessibility for Designers
• React: Components, Context, and Accessibility
• React: Accessibility
• Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices
• Universal Principles of Design
• UX Foundations: Accessibility
• WordPress: Accessibility

Accessibility Courses on the Web

Beyond what is available through Virginia Tech, there are free online courses on the wider web.

• Web Accessibility by Google - Udacity
• Web Fundamentals: Accessibility - Google
• Training Teachers to author accessible content - Microsoft in Education
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Accessibility - EdX
• Accessibility 101-minute HTML Course - Treehouse
• The Chang School Digital Accessibility Teaching and Learning Resources
  • Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy
  • Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice
  • Web Accessibility for Developers
• Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today - egghead.io
• teach access
• Introduction to Course Accessibility - UCBerkeley

Selected Articles and Tutorials on Accessibility Topics

• Introduction to Web Accessibility from WebAIM
• Web Accessibility Tutorials from the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
• Accessibility Guidelines for E-Learning
• HTML/XHTML Markup and CSS References, and Tutorials
• Designing for Screen Reader Compatibility
• Skip Navigation - Links
• Appropriate Use of Alternative Text
• Keyboard Accessibility
• Keyboard Accessibility for Web Applications
• Creating Accessible Tables