01. Introduction to Accessibility

INSTRUCTOR NOTE:

Welcome to the Web Accessibility course!

Good accessibility or "a11y" is crucial to making sure all users can access the content in your sites and applications. Making sure you consider accessibility at the start of your process will ensure that your final product is more polished and works for more people.

Throughout this course we'll have you do a number of hands-on exercises to get familiar with accessibility topics and techniques. You can find all of the exercises in the project's GitHub repo. Go ahead and clone it now so you can reference it when we get to the quiz nodes.

Note:
We often shorten the word "accessibility" to "a11y" because there are 11 letters between the "A" and "Y" in the word "Accessibility". Sometimes you'll see this pattern used in other contexts like i18n for "internationalization" and l10n for "localization".