Accessibility Syllabus

Learning outcomes

• Be able to run and evaluate the output of a browser tool like Lighthouse, WAVE, or aXe devtools or npm package pa11y.
• Be able to use VoiceOver to evaluate a page or component
• Be able to test with a keyboard
• Be able to use a Color Contrast checker tool, https://www.tpgi.com/cca-download/
• Understand the 3 conformance levels and how we label our tickets
• Create accessible components in HTML

Resources to read

Accessibility basics

• WebAIM: Keyboard Accessibility (1 hour)
• WebAIM: Contrast and Color Accessibility - Understanding WCAG 2 Contrast and Color Requirements (1 hour)

Evaluating accessibility

• Basic VoiceOver Testing (DACS handbook) (1 hour)
• Accessibility tools (30 minutes)

Creating accessible components

• WebAIM: Creating Accessible Tables - Layout Tables (1 hour)
• WebAIM: Creating Accessible Forms - General Form Accessibility (1 hour)
• WebAIM: Skip Navigation Links (1 hour)

Accessibility on our team

• Issues and Labels (DACS handbook)

Projects

• Do an accessibility audit of a website of your choice.
• Follow these procedures to audit the page. Generate an audit report.