The A11Y Collective – Your Team’s Solution to Learning More About Accessibility

About The A11Y Collective

Catering to a broad audience, The A11Y Collective is an e-learning platform on web accessibility. The A11Y Collective’s courses offer web accessibility education, supporting compliance with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Course materials are presented in accessible formats, which include captioned videos and comprehensive transcripts. Each learning module wraps up with a quiz, and a certificate is awarded once a course is completed.

Their goal is to reach a broad target audience including project managers, web designers, developers, copywriters, web managers, product owners, and (semi) government employees across various experience levels.

Why The A11Y Collective Supports WordPress Accessibility Day

When asked why The A11Y Collective sponsors WordPress Accessibility Day, Taeke Reijenga, founder of The A11y Collective said that sponsoring WordPress Accessibility Day “was a no-brainer, as it was the last couple of years”. While they can’t sponsor every event in the WordPress space, The A11Y Collective is happy to sponsor the ones that are close to their heart as an organization.

“Our main purpose of sponsoring WordPress Accessibility Day and other, more regular, WordCamps is to raise awareness. After talking to hundreds of visitors at our booths at various events, there is one thing we learned, and that is that the majority would love to create more accessible projects, but they have no clue where to start. We know it is awareness first and education second. Without awareness or education we will not see the change we are all wishing for.”

– Taeke Reijenga

The A11Y Collective Practices What They Teach When It Comes to Accessibility

The current A11Y Collective website is built with WordPress, WooCommerce, and the LearnDash LMS. The collective has invested heavily in making sure the tools they use to build are accessible – this commitment is reflected in the website’s front end, the checkout process, even the enrollment process with Learndash LMS. While this required a bit of work for the A11y Collective to implement, they recognize it is important to practice what you teach!

You can check out one of their free courses, the Try-out Class or Web Accessibility: the Business Case to see how their courses work and also experience how they have modified WooCommerce and LearnDash to create an accessible e-learning platform.

Take The A11Y Collective Courses Today – Solo or as a Team

As an individual, you can partake in the ever growing collection of accessibility courses the A11y Collective offers. But in case you didn’t know, they now offer group enrollment! 

Instead of going through individual signups, you can now enroll groups and appoint team leaders who manage your team’s progress via the collective’s course platform. This learning approach is especially helpful for agencies and larger organizations that want to train their teams.

Looking to keep up to date on the ins and outs of web accessibility? Head over to the A11y Collective’s blog, where they offer practical tips and tricks on code and development, design and UX or content and copywriting.