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- Development Tools
- Beginner
About this Course
Your content is clear, your images are responsive, your code is clean, and your layout flows beautifully on all the most popular devices. You think you're ready to launch, but you might have overlooked a crucial aspect of your website's development. If it's not easy for a person to access your content, regardless of the way in which they use the internet, there's still work to be done. Developing for accessibility should be part of the standard workflow, but it's often given too little attention. In this course, you’ll learn about the standards in place to guide developers in creating a web that is accessible to all users as well as techniques to help bring your projects up to those standards.
What you'll learn
- Accessibility at a Glance
- NonVisual Desktop Access
- WCAG 2.0
- Semantic HTML
- WAI-ARIA
- Testing for Accessibility
Teacher
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Aisha Blake
Aisha Blake arrived in Detroit in 2013 to serve as a Jesuit Volunteer at Detroit Cristo Rey High School and quickly became involved with the local Girl Develop It chapter. Within a year, she was invited to join the leadership team for Girl Develop It Detroit. This inevitably led to a deep love of the tech community in Detroit and a desire to put down roots. She has since become the owner of a cat and a house. Aisha is a front-end developer at Detroit Trading and works part-time as a JavaScript instructor at Grand Circus teaching career changers the joys and the struggles of front-end web development.
Aisha fell in love with Detroit and decided to stay and help women and others discover the endless possibilities inherent in working with web applications. She knows enough to be dangerous about: HTML & CSS, JavaScript & jQuery, The MEAN stack, Web accessibility, Responsive web design, Sass, WordPress, Shopify (& various other e-commerce platforms)