Advanced Accessibility and WCAG 2.2 Conformance
An advanced course in accessibility rigor beyond the POUR-and-basic-ARIA foundation: auditing a real product against WCAG 2.2 A/AA and knowing precisely when AAA applies, designing and specifying accessible components with correct ARIA semantics and standard keyboard patterns, and operationalizing accessibility with real assistive-technology testing, VPATs, and team processes that survive contact with a real, changing organization.
By the end of this course you can audit a real product against WCAG 2.2 with a defensible, prioritized report, specify accessible components precisely enough that an engineer never has to guess a keyboard behavior or an ARIA attribute, and operationalize accessibility with real assistive-technology testing, a living VPAT, genuine review gates, and progress metrics leadership can actually act on.
Curriculum
3 Levels · 30 LessonsEach Lesson may include a Quiz
Each Level may include an Exam
Complete the available Lessons
Pass all configured Quizzes and Exams
Locked activities open only after their prerequisites are met
Completed Course progress automatically counts toward the Career Path when this Course belongs to a Mission.
- Builds directly on this curriculum's foundational accessibility course rather than repeating its ground
- Every pattern is grounded in a concrete audit finding, component specification, or operational fix, not abstract theory
- Every lesson ends with a worked example you can practice on
- Covers the full path from an undefined "accessible-ish" claim to a genuinely operational, defensible accessibility practice
- Advanced learners who have completed this curriculum's foundational accessibility course and already know POUR principles, basic ARIA, and basic contrast requirements
- Senior or lead designers and engineers responsible for a product's genuine, defensible WCAG conformance, not just a general sense that it "cares about accessibility"
- Accessibility specialists and champions building or scaling review gates, design-system rigor, and testing practices for a growing team
- Design-system owners and engineering leads who need component-level accessibility specifications precise enough to implement without guessing
- 30 short, focused lessons across 3 progressive levels
- A graded quiz after every lesson and a 12-question exam per level
- Three continuous worked examples (auditing against WCAG 2.2, specifying accessible components, and a full course capstone spanning all three levels) for a fictional government-services portal, CivicLink, threaded through the closing lessons
- Assumes prior knowledge of POUR, basic ARIA, and basic contrast — goes straight to audit rigor, precise specification, and operationalization
Awarded after the Course's configured completion requirements are met.