'Accessible by Design' breakout session at the ILP Learning Success Blueprint summit.

Accessibility should not be a technical checklist only developers are concerned with, but a common-sense conversation everyone should be having about how we design accessible learning from the start.

Good intentions often are derailed by being focused on using the WCAG 2.0 guidelines as a technical checklist.

You visit the WCAG 2.0 website, are promptly overwhelmed and put tackling accessibility in the too hard basket.

Meanwhile, users with accessible needs are lost in a PDF ridden wasteland of learning.

Does this sound familiar?

Accessibility doesn’t have to be so daunting, if you take a common sense approach to it.

Most of the accessibility guidelines have strong alignments to good instructional, visual, and user experience design.

Join me for my “Accessible by design” break out session at the ILP Learning Success Blueprint summit to learn more.

We will be focused on exploring who an accessible user is, and empathising with the frustrations experienced by these individuals when their needs are not considered in learning design.

Then we’ll look at how good learning design practices align with the needs of accessible users and non-accessible user alike.

Let’s shift the conversation from conformance to the WCAG 2.0 guidelines, and instead look at how we start creating inclusive learning experiences by applying what you are already doing as part of good needs analysis and purposeful learning design.