Designing for Accessibility for UX Designers by Liz Brown UX

About this course

Create experiences that work for more people and make your UX practice stronger with accessibility-first design. This free online course helps you build the habits and decision-making skills needed to design interfaces that are easier to perceive, understand, and use across a wide range of abilities, devices, and environments. You will focus on practical, day-to-day choices that can dramatically improve clarity and usability without sacrificing aesthetics.

Accessibility is not a last-minute checklist or a compliance hurdle; it is a core part of quality design. By learning how to think about contrast, color communication, and link clarity, you will be able to reduce friction for users and increase confidence in your design rationale. These improvements often benefit everyone: better readability in bright light, clearer calls to action, and interfaces that are easier to scan quickly. The course connects accessibility concepts to real UX outcomes, making it relevant whether you design websites, apps, or complex product flows.

You will explore the primary purpose of web accessibility and how it relates to inclusive, human-centered design. From there, you will practice making visual choices that support perception, including understanding the baseline expectations for text contrast and other elements that carry meaning. You will also learn how to avoid relying on color alone when signaling status or errors, ensuring that information remains understandable for users with color-vision differences or anyone viewing screens under less-than-ideal conditions.

Finally, you will strengthen the way you write and evaluate links so that navigation is predictable and accessible in context, especially for people using assistive technologies. By the end, you will be able to spot common accessibility issues earlier, communicate your reasoning to teammates and stakeholders, and design interfaces that feel more thoughtful, resilient, and inclusive.