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a repository to track PhETs research into accessibility, or "a11y" for short

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Udacity Course Research #61

Closed mbarlow12 closed 6 years ago

mbarlow12 commented 6 years ago

In my recent reading about a11y best practices, I came across this Udacity course on web accessibility:

https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility--ud891

I'm about halfway through and thought I'd make an issue for it. It might be helpful as a rapid way to get new hires/project members up to speed on this type of work.

jessegreenberg commented 6 years ago

This is really cool, thanks @mbarlow12! @terracoda are you familiar with this course?

terracoda commented 6 years ago

I am familiar with many older courses, but not specifically the Udacity one. I can review it if we want to use it as a trainging tool.

TeachAccess.org is relatively new initiative that has a quick tutorial. It may be a good compliment, or a quick resource. https://teachaccess.github.io/tutorial/

mbarlow12 commented 6 years ago

I was planning to report back here once I'd finished it.

terracoda commented 6 years ago

About 3 (maybe more) years ago, I tried to do a Google Web Accessibility course, but it forced you to use Google Chrome, which I thought was a bit self-serving. The Udacity course is a google course, so it could be a improved version :-)

terracoda commented 6 years ago

I am familiar with Rob Dodson's resources on YouTube. He has made many solid tutorials on web accessibility techniques, so it should be a good course.

terracoda commented 6 years ago

@mbarlow12, @jessegreenberg , and @zepumph here's my super brief interpretation of WCAG Ramp it up!

mbarlow12 commented 6 years ago

Finished the content a few days ago. Here are some of the highlights:

Provided some fantastic insight into how some AT users actually interact with screen readers and keyboard input
Solid overview of the accessibility tree
Thorough explanation of the various ARIA features
Offered some interesting new use cases that raise a11y concerns

Overall, I'd highly recommend this to any devs interested in contributing, and it provides a common base level competency and fluency in the general practices and terminology. You can also pretty easily speed the videos up to consume less time.

terracoda commented 6 years ago

Awesome! Glad you liked it. @mbarlow12.

mbarlow12 commented 6 years ago

Unassignigning myself but keeping issue open for future reference.

zepumph commented 6 years ago

Thanks for making this issue @mbarlow12, I'm excited to poke around in the course.