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Microsoft

Accessibility Testing Essentials for Web & Windows

Microsoft via edX

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Is your digital content truly accessible to a global audience? Accessibility is achieved through designing content with alternative means to fit everyone's needs. In an era where digital inclusion is an enforced legal standard, ensuring your applications meet guidelines is essential. Over one billion individuals globally live with disabilities, making professionals with specialized accessibility conformance skills highly sought after. This technical, hands-on course shifts your perspective from basic understanding to strategic, inclusive product engineering.

Through applied diagnostic projects, you will learn to execute professional workflows:

  • Automated & Manual Tooling: Leverage Edge DevTools, Lighthouse, and Accessibility Insights to isolate high-impact violations.
  • Human-in-the-Loop Protocols: Conduct keyboard parity audits and turn off your monitor to execute professional Windows Narrator testing protocols.
  • AI-Augmented Engineering: Utilize generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot to perform code analysis and accelerate remediation.

You will finish this course equipped to build a remediation roadmap that balances technical feasibility with meaningful user impact.

Syllabus

  • Apply POUR principles to meet WCAG conformance.
  • Evaluate web applications and desktop apps using Microsoft tools for automation.
  • Execute manual accessibility audits using Windows Narrator.
  • Prioritize accessibility issues using a severity matrix.
  • Generate accessible code for remediating accessibility issues.

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