Training

Training is key in educating your teams on accessibility and increasing capability across your organisation.

Different styles of training will suit different people, disciplines and businesses, so planning a training programme that will land well in your organisation is crucial to your success.

Our training programme

Training is something we’ve been working on for a number of years and evolves as we evolve.

We’ve found it’s important to get across these key messages when someone is starting out with training:

  1. what accessibility is

  2. who it benefits

  3. why you should care about it

  4. how to make what you do accessible

Currently, the training we have available within Skyscanner is:

  1. our “Introduction to Accessibility & Inclusive Design” course, which we built ourselves and is on our internal online learning platform

  2. access to the full curriculum of web and digital accessibility training from Deque University

  3. screen reader workshops run by AbilityNet a number of times a year (plus adhoc accessibility training courses run by them)

  4. providing guidance like the content in our Getting Started section

We also provide accessibility guidance on our open source design system Backpack, which is available to anyone.

External training

There are many organisations out there that deliver great training. Here are just some of them. Different methods and providers will suit different company needs – this is just an idea of where to start looking.

  1. Digital Accessibility Foundations Free Online Course by the W3C

  2. Digital accessibility learning by Deque

  3. Accessibility training by TetraLogical

  4. Accessibility skills for your teams by AbilityNet

  5. Web accessibility training by Nomensa