Make your website more accessible to more users with Introduction to Web
Accessibility
By Eve Andersson, Manager, Accessibility Engineering
You work hard to build clean, intuitive websites. Traffic is high and still climbing, and your
website provides a great user experience for all your users, right? Now close your eyes. Is
your website easily navigable? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people
are visually impaired. That’s more than the populations of
England,
Germany,
and
Japan
combined!
As the web has continued to evolve, websites have become more interactive and complex, and
this has led to a reduction in accessibility for some users. Fortunately, there are some
simple techniques you can employ to make your websites more accessible to blind and low-vision
users and increase your potential audience.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
is Google’s online course that helps you do just that.
You’ll learn to make easy accessibility updates, starting with your HTML structure, without
breaking code or sacrificing a beautiful user experience. You’ll also learn tips and tricks to
inspect the accessibility of your websites using Google Chrome extensions.
Introduction to Web Accessibility runs with support from Google content
experts from September 17th - 30th, and is recommended for developers with basic familiarity
with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
There’s a lot to learn in the realm of web accessibility, and a lot of work to be done to
ensure users aren’t excluded from being able to easily navigate the web. By introducing
fundamental tips to improve web usage for users with visual impairments,
Introduction
to Web Accessibility is a starting point to learn how to build accessibility
features into your code.
Registration is now open, so sign
up today and help push the web toward becoming truly universally accessible.
Eve
Andersson is a manager in Accessibility Engineering, within the Google Research
organization. She enjoys travel, wine, and the number pi.
Posted by Ashleigh Rentz, Editor
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