Accessibility Training Workshops for Every Team

Accessibility training teaches teams how to design, develop, test, publish, and maintain digital products that are usable by people with disabilities. W3C’s introduction to web accessibility is a good primer, and its Teach and Advocate resources show how organisations build awareness internally.

Developers, designers, QA engineers, product managers, content authors, leadership teams, compliance teams, customer support, and accessibility champions can all benefit from role-based training.

Yes. We provide virtual accessibility training with live facilitation, demonstrations, practical exercises, Q&A, and optional recordings.

Yes. Workshops can be customized by role, technology stack, industry, product type, accessibility maturity, existing audit results, and team goals.

Yes. Developer training can cover semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, forms, focus management, accessible components, React, Next.js, Angular, and testing workflows. Our ARIA essentials guide is good pre-reading, and teams building in React can pair training with our accessible React development service.

Yes. QA workshops cover manual testing, screen reader testing, keyboard testing, WCAG validation, issue reporting, severity assessment, and release review. Sessions build on our guides to automated testing, keyboard testing and screen reader testing, and on W3C’s evaluation resources.

Yes. Designer workshops cover accessible design, contrast, typography, focus indicators, Figma best practices, component standards, and design system accessibility.

Formats include half-day workshops, one-day workshops, two-day bootcamps, executive sessions, team coaching, and ongoing office hours.

Completion certificates can be provided when included in the training scope. These are not professional credentials; if team members want a recognised credential, the IAAP offers accessibility certifications such as CPACC, WAS and CPWA.

Yes. We can train multiple teams with shared fundamentals and role-specific sessions for developers, designers, QA, product, content, and leadership.

Yes. WCAG 2.2, POUR principles, success criteria, accessibility laws, and practical application are core training topics. We use W3C’s WCAG quick reference as a working tool, and W3C’s curricula on web accessibility are a useful map of what each role needs to know.

Yes. Workshops can include screen reader testing, keyboard navigation, contrast evaluation, form accessibility, accessible HTML, ARIA implementation, debugging, and PDF basics.

Yes. When access and scope allow, we can use your product, designs, code examples, audit results, or workflows as training material.

Yes. Follow-up support can include office hours, team coaching, consulting, issue review, design review, and remediation guidance. For ways to keep accessibility in the build process after training, see our article on reducing post-development accessibility work.

Yes. Leadership workshops cover accessibility strategy, governance, procurement, KPIs, compliance, roadmaps, and program ownership. Useful background for leaders includes the Justice Department’s ADA web guidance and, for teams that serve U.S. federal agencies, Section508.gov training.

Yes. Content training covers headings, alt text, accessible tables, meaningful links, PDFs, plain language, and accessible document workflows. For schools, colleges and EdTech teams, we tailor sessions to course pages, LMS publishing, lecture captions and syllabi, alongside our education accessibility services.

Yes. Workshops can include PDF accessibility basics, document structure, headings, reading order, tags, alt text, tables, links, and forms.

Tools can include axe DevTools, WAVE, ARC Toolkit, Accessibility Insights, NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, TalkBack, Chrome DevTools, the browser accessibility tree, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Figma plugins.

Yes. We can provide on-site accessibility workshops depending on location, schedule, scope, and team needs.

Yes. Role-based training is recommended because developers, designers, QA teams, content authors, product teams, and leaders each make different accessibility decisions.

Yes. We can help accessibility champions learn testing, issue triage, team coaching, governance, documentation, and escalation practices.

Yes. Design system training can cover accessible components, reusable patterns, tokens, Figma reviews, documentation, and component validation.

Yes. We provide practical screen reader testing guidance using tools such as NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack depending on the scope.

Yes. Training helps teams understand their responsibilities and supports governance, release reviews, KPIs, policies, and long-term accessibility programs.

Participants can receive slides, practical exercises, accessibility checklists, reference materials, sample code, testing resources, optional recordings, and completion certificates.

Fill in our free needs assessment with your audience, goals, preferred format, technologies and current accessibility maturity, and whether you want training built from your own product or audit results. We reply within 2 business days with a recommended format. If you would rather talk it through, book a $100 consultation.

Every workshop is tailored to your team, your products and where you are in your accessibility journey, so the agendas below are examples rather than a fixed syllabus. We confirm the final modules with you before the session.

Example half-day workshop

• Accessibility foundations: disability, assistive technologies and the POUR principles behind WCAG 2.2
• Common barriers: headings, alt text, colour contrast, forms, focus and link text
• Live demo: navigating a page with only a keyboard and the NVDA screen reader
• Hands-on exercise: quick checks with browser tools and an automated checker
• Q&A and practical next steps for your team

Example one-day workshop

• WCAG 2.2 Level AA, the POUR principles and who owns what across design, development, QA and content
• Accessible design and content: contrast, typography, focus states, alt text, headings and plain language
• Accessible code: semantic HTML, forms, ARIA basics and keyboard support
• Hands-on testing lab: keyboard navigation, screen reader checks and automated tools
• Review of examples from your own product, issue reporting and severity assessment
• Wrap-up: checklists, Q&A and a follow-up plan

Workshops are quoted per engagement, because cost depends on the number of participants, the format (half-day, one-day, two-day or ongoing coaching), virtual or on-site delivery and how much is customised from your own product. Send us your requirements and we reply with a quote. Our audit packages have fixed prices: a $100 one-hour technical consultation, a $500 Quick Audit and a $2,000 Complete Audit (see pricing).

Yes. Developer coaching covers when to use native HTML instead of ARIA, roles, states and properties, focus order, visible focus, moving focus in dialogs and single-page apps, and avoiding keyboard traps, following the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide. Sessions can review your own components or pull requests. Our aria-expanded guide and WCAG 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value guide are good preparation.

Yes. WCAG 2.2, published by the W3C on 5 October 2023, added 9 success criteria to WCAG 2.1, six of them at Level A or AA: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum), Dragging Movements, Target Size (Minimum), Consistent Help, Redundant Entry and Accessible Authentication (Minimum). It also made 4.1.1 Parsing obsolete. See the W3C summary of what’s new in WCAG 2.2.

Most accessibility laws require accessible results rather than a specific course. The ADA Title II rule requires state and local government web content to meet WCAG 2.1 AA from April 26, 2027 or April 26, 2028 (ADA.gov), Section 508 applies WCAG 2.0 AA to U.S. federal ICT, and the European Accessibility Act has applied since June 28, 2025. Training is the most reliable way for your own teams to meet those standards and keep meeting them after an audit. This is general information, not legal advice.

Yes, and it works well. A $500 Quick Audit or a $2,000 Complete Audit gives us your real issues, and the workshop then teaches each team how to fix them and avoid them in new work. See our sample audit report for how findings are written up.

Each session ends with a short knowledge check. After the workshop we can review a sample of new designs, components or pull requests, or re-test key pages, so you can see whether the same issues stop appearing. Teams that want ongoing checks can add accessibility monitoring and governance.