Building on the digital accessibility training opportunities we highlighted this summer, 天美影院has launched a new Digital Accessibility Calendar to make it easier to find events across all campuses that support inclusive digital experiences. The calendar, available on the Accessible Technology website,聽lists opportunities from across 天美影院campuses, including webinars, meetups, and hands-on sessions led by accessibility experts.
Accessible digital content helps ensure that everyone in the 天美影院community can fully participate in our digital spaces. The new calendar complements existing training options and highlights the University’s ongoing commitment to building an inclusive digital environment for all.
As a reminder, there are many free, flexible ways to build your digital accessibility skills鈥攚hether you鈥檙e just getting started or expanding your expertise, and whether you prefer self-paced or expert-led training. Below are some of the most popular options available to anyone with a 天美影院NetID, offered through departments and partners such as Teaching@UW, 天美影院Bothell, and UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Refer to our July post to learn about training options by audience and best ways to get started.
Digital Accessibility Training Options
Audiences: 天美影院students, faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced
LinkedIn Learning provides a rich catalog of digital accessibility training videos, available at no cost to 天美影院students, staff, and faculty. To help you get started, Accessible Technology Services (ATS) has created four custom learning paths for the 天美影院community, with more to come!
Topics include:聽
- Web accessibility
- Creating accessible documents and multimedia
- Inclusive design practices
Find more information, including custom learning paths, on the ATS LinkedIn Learning web 辫补驳别.听
Audiences: 天美影院students, faculty, staff, developers, designers, and more
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced
Deque University is a great place to start learning at your own pace and level, and their training library is free for anyone with a 天美影院NetID.
Deque University is a great place to start learning at your own pace and level, and their training library is free for anyone with a 天美影院NetID.
Deque鈥檚 online library contains over 100 courses and reference materials about digital accessibility. The courses are as short as 30 minutes or as long as 6 hours and cover a wide range鈥攆rom the basics to more advanced techniques鈥攁nd are useful for all kinds of roles: faculty, developers, designers, document authors, and more. To help you get started, Accessible Technology Services (ATS) has created a list of suggested courses for specific roles on the on the Accessible Technology Services (ATS) Deque University for 天美影院Users web 辫补驳别.听
Audiences: 天美影院faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner to Intermediate
Hosted in the 天美影院Bothell Canvas instance, Accessibility 101 is a self-paced course that introduces:
- Core disability and accessibility concepts
- Best practices for creating accessible web content and documents
- Universal Design (UD) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Optional deep dives into PDF remediation, spreadsheet accessibility, accessible teaching, and more
An updated version of Accessibility 101 will be launched soon! Visit 天美影院Bothell鈥檚 page for more information.聽
Audiences: 天美影院web developers & designers
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced
These monthly meetups are a place for accessibility-minded colleagues to casually review and discuss projects, including hands-on testing and code review. Offered on the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00-noon.
Find out more on the Accessible Technology Events 辫补驳别.听听
Audiences: 天美影院faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner
This monthly series, hosted by Mary-Colleen Jenkins, an instructional accessibility specialist with UW鈥檚 Accessible Technology Services (ATS), features guest speakers from the 天美影院community who share insights and information on making your course content digitally accessible. Typically offered the 1st Tuesday of each month, from noon to 1:00 pm.
Find out more about these monthly sessions on the Accessible Technology Events page.
Audiences: 天美影院faculty, staff, graduate students
Skill levels: Beginner
The page on provides actionable guidance for instructors with specific guidance for syllabi, reading & textbooks, slide decks, Canvas courses, and more.
Teaching@天美影院also offers , an eight-week, online course that enhances digital-course design and pedagogy while integrating key accessibility principles.
This year, Teaching@天美影院is also offering several related to digital accessibility.
Audiences: 天美影院students, faculty, staff
Skill levels: Beginner to Advanced
UW-IT Accessible Technology Services (ATS) offers on-demand webinar recordings covering topics such as:
- Teaching accessible online courses
- Document and web accessibility
- Video accessibility
- Testing with screen readers
- Accessibility in procurement
Watch recordings at your own pace on the Accessible Technology Webinar Series 辫补驳别.听
Skill level: Beginner to Advanced
12-week, online, asynchronous program through 天美影院Professional & Continuing Education聽
Audiences: Web & mobile developers, as well as nontechnical professionals, compliance coordinators, program administrators, social service professionals, disability service providers, educators, content creators, and advocates in any field that want to be more comfortable with a broad range of issues in making digital technology more accessible to individuals of diverse abilities. The course is designed to build foundational skills in digital accessibility, including the use of accessibility tools and the creation of accessible content.
Visit UW鈥檚 website for more information, including tuition and schedule.聽
Join the Pack: Support Digital Accessibility
- For more information, resources, and upcoming events, visit the Digital Accessibility portal.
- If your department has a digital accessibility story to share, we鈥檇 love to hear from you! Contact us at digitalaccess@uw.edu.