What is this programme?
The Accessibility in Design Certificate from ecertificate.pro is a self-paced online course covering WCAG 2.2 success criteria, colour and text contrast, keyboard operability, screen reader semantics with ARIA, and accessible form labeling and error handling. It runs about 22 hours and finishes with a graded audit exercise on a deliberately broken interface. This certificate is issued by ecertificate.pro alone: it is not government approved, not accredited by any regulator or standards body, and it does not grant a licence, a protected title, or authority to sign off legal conformance claims for an organisation. It does not guarantee a job, an interview, or a salary increase. Each certificate carries a unique verification code that can be checked only in the ecertificate.pro database; no third-party registry holds a record of it. ecertificate.pro has issued independent online course certificates since 2016, and the certificate is delivered in your private panel rather than as an email attachment.
Who it is for
Product and UI designers, front-end developers, content editors and QA testers who ship web interfaces and need them to work with a keyboard, a screen reader, 200% zoom and low vision settings.
What you will be able to do
- Read a WCAG 2.2 success criterion, identify its level (A, AA, AAA) and decide whether a given design actually conforms
- Measure text and non-text contrast against the 4.5:1, 3:1 and 7:1 thresholds, and judge borderline cases with APCA as a second opinion
- Rebuild a keyboard path: logical tab order, visible focus styling with :focus-visible instead of outline:none, skip links, and focus return to the trigger after a dialog closes
- Operate NVDA on Windows and VoiceOver on macOS well enough to test your own components using the rotor, the headings list and forms mode
- Label forms with a native label element bound by for and id, aria-describedby hint text, aria-invalid states and an error summary that sends focus to the first failing control
- Choose accessible names, roles and keyboard contracts for custom widgets — tabs, accordions, comboboxes — from the ARIA Authoring Practices instead of inventing your own
- Run and interpret axe DevTools, Lighthouse, WAVE and Pa11y, and explain precisely which criteria no automated tool can evaluate
Modules
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1
WCAG 2.2 Structure: POUR, Levels and What Designers Own
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2
Contrast, Colour and Visual Design Decisions
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3
Keyboard Operability and Focus Management
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4
Screen Reader Semantics: Names, Roles, States
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5
Accessible Forms: Labeling, Help Text and Error Recovery
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6
ARIA Patterns for Custom Components
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7
Media, Motion and Cognitive Access
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8
Auditing, Reporting and Design System Governance
How it works
Learning format
Self-paced written material, downloaded from your dashboard. No fixed schedule and no live sessions — you work through it when it suits you.
Material delivery
Everything appears in your dashboard as soon as your payment is confirmed. Files are served only to your signed-in session.
Prerequisites
Working familiarity with HTML and CSS, and comfort inspecting a page in browser DevTools. No prior accessibility or assistive technology experience is required; the screen readers used in the course (NVDA, VoiceOver) are free or built into the operating system.
Completion
You complete short module quizzes and a final assessment, plus a hands-on audit exercise in which you remediate a broken form and navigation bar. Once you pass, the certificate and its unique verification code appear in your private ecertificate.pro panel.
Your certificate
Once your completion is confirmed, we prepare your certificate and upload it to your dashboard, normally within 24–48 hours. You receive an e-mail as soon as it is there — you never have to chase it.
Refunds
Because the material is delivered digitally and immediately, purchases are non-refundable once the files have been made available to your account. The full terms are in our Refund Policy.
