Training

Accessibility 101 online course

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The current accessibility self-paced training course, Accessibility 101, hosted on Canvas, provides online training for UW faculty, staff and students in an online self-paced format with optional quizzes.

The course offers learning content, videos, and assessments to check your understanding. In order to take the quizzes you will need to add yourself to the course using the Join button. This course is divided into content areas addressing main and optional accessibility topics.

Main topics

  • Accessibility basics and Universal Design for Learning
  • Creating accessible documents and email
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
  • Accessible web content
  • Accessible Canvas content
  • Canvas accessibility checkers
  • Creating a plan for yourself and your office

Optional content

  • PDF accessibility basics with Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Excel spreadsheets
  • Accessible student-created content
  • Meetings and events
  • Webinars

Coming summer 2025!

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Accessibility 101: Inclusive Digital Design

Watch for the upcoming announcement or check this page for updates.


Other available accessibility training at UW