Designing Accessible Learning Content: A Practical Guide to Applying best-practice Accessibility Standards to L&D Resources

by Susi Miller

Making learning and development (L&D) content inclusive and accessible for everyone is not only a good thing to do, it's the right thing to do. Designing Accessible Learning Content provides evidence-based advice on designing digital learning content that ensures all learners are included and are therefore able to perform to their full potential.This is a practical guide on accessibility for anyone involved in the design, creation, development or testing of online learning content. It provides detailed guidance on how to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines making it essential reading for L&D professionals, instructional designers and course developers who need to comply with legal accessibility requirements. Using the author's 'eLearning Accessibility Framework', Designing Accessible Learning Content demystifies sometimes complex technical accessibility standards and provides an easy to follow contextual framework uniquely designed for learning content created using any authoring tool.This book also demonstrates how creating accessible learning content can improve usability and provide the best possible learning experience for everyone. In addition, it offers essential background information such as a focus on disability, an overview of assistive technology and an exploration of the case for digital accessibility. This guarantees that L&D professionals have the vital background knowledge they need to make sense of accessibility before they begin practically applying the principles. With online checklists, learner case studies, and industry perspectives, Designing Accessible Learning Content is an essential handbook for all L&D professionals seeking to harness the benefits of accessibility in order to improve their learning content for everyone.

360 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 3, 2021

Reviews

[AnnieM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Susi Miller has written a timely and critically important book for all of those in the learning and communications professions. With many of us now working primarily remotely, as a trainer, all of my sessions have shifted to online with many courses now being self-directed modules that learners take at their own pace. I had gotten feedback from a few employees about some of the barriers they had to accessing content due to graphics or other issues with the way we have always structured our sessions and modules. This book really raised my awareness around ways to make our learning much more accessible to all audiences. I emphasize all audiences too because as our workforce gets older, the likelihood of the onset of some form of disability (visible or invisible) increases. I have yet to find a book that explains how to do this in such detail. It is very technically detailed and even though I myself do not design e-learning, I plan to share this with our vendors and employees who are learning content developers. Thank you to Susi Miller for writing this book!

I recommend this book for training and communications professionals!

[Faith Mundia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of those books I didn’t know I needed until I started reading.

And now, I can’t stop recommending it!

As someone working in instructional design and learning platform development, I picked up so many practical tips to make content more accessible and user friendly.

What I loved ❤️ most? It doesn’t just focus on the learners but also considers content creators, making accessibility a win-win for everyone.

This is definitely a book I’ll be revisiting, and if you’re in EdTech, you should too!