Building for Everyone(2020): Any business that isn’t reaching a diverse market is missing out on enormous revenue potential and the opportunity to build products that suit their users' core needs. The economic “why” has been firmly established, but what about the “how?” How can business leaders adapt to our ever-more-diverse world by capturing market share AND building more inclusive products for people of color, women and other underrepresented groups? The Product Inclusion Team at Google has developed strategies to do just that and Building For Everyone is the practical guide to following in their footsteps.
Disability Visibility, Edited by Alice Wong (2020): Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Accessibility for Everyone(2017): Let Laura Kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design.
Design for Real Life(2016): Join Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer as they turn examples from more than a dozen sites and services into a set of principles you can apply right now. Whether you’re a designer, developer, content strategist, or anyone who creates user experiences, you’ll gain the practical knowledge to test where your designs might fail (before you ship!), vet new features or interactions against more realistic scenarios, and build a business case for making decisions through a lens of kindness.
A Web for Everyone (2014): Make your site accessible without sacrificing design or innovation. Rooted in universal design principles, this book provides solutions: practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.
General Resources
W3Cx: Introduction to Web Accessibility(free) Get a strong foundation in digital accessibility to make your websites and apps work well for people with disabilities, meet international standards, and provide a better user experience for everyone.
WebDev’s Accessibility Course(free) An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.
Accessibility in Gov (free) A UK government blog which carries a lot of information about accessible product and service design
Accessibility Talks (free) A virtual meet-up group that features speakers and conversations around the topic of digital accessibility.
Deque University Online Self Paced Accessibility courses (paid) Courses in this curriculum focus on web accessibility, and include a wealth of examples, within detailed courses. Courses are self-paced, and you can jump from one topic to another, treating the materials as a reference library, or "encyclopaedia of accessibility."
Make your Web Content Accessible (free) Learn the principles of accessible design and how they apply to typography, colour, media, and interactions. And you’ll learn to design more inclusively from the very start and communicate your accessible designs across teams.
Inclusive Design Research Centre(free) A collection of resources created by the IDRC for learning about Inclusive Design theory and practice.
Introduction to UX and Accessible Design(paid) An accessible design course from the UAL Creative Computing Institute, Lancaster University and the Institute of Coding.
Accessible Design, The Basics (paid) A course from the A11Y Collective that is eligible for 2.5 IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits.
Adobe's Inclusive UX Writing (free): Everyone building products has the responsibility to prioritize inclusion. Writing the language inside products is an extremely powerful way to do so.
Accessibility Strategy for Product Management (free): Product managers need to take responsibility for ensuring that accessibility is effectively included in decision-making throughout the product development lifecycle, so that the product meets an acceptable level of accessibility.
Understanding Digital Accessibility for Testers and QA Specialists (paid) This course explores the process of creating a meaningful and robust Quality Assurance (QA) plan. It also covers the different testing tools and techniques to perform testing. Finally, the course examines the key areas of manual testing to achieve compliance. The course is most appropriate for QA professionals.
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