Learning Design
for All
We are passionate about ensuring all learners can access the courses we build.
Artisan has been a thought leader in accessible design for over ten years. Accessibility is consistent with our Core Values and social responsibility belief statements. You can regularly catch us at learning conferences sharing everything we know about this important L&D topic. We even developed “Barrier Busting” – A Learning Design Game. It’s a card deck that will help drive conversations about potential barriers to learning–and what you can do to remove some of them. We are founding members of Inspire Accessibility, along with SweetRush and ELB Learning. We have partnered with Proctor & Gamble to spread this message of inclusive design.
So, what does it mean to make learning accessible?
Simply, it means we build our courses so that people with disabilities can learn from them like everyone else.
Building accessible courses includes doing things you see regularly, like adding closed captions for deaf/hard-of-hearing users. There are things you might not notice like choosing sensitive language and ensuring adequate color contrast. And things built behind the scenes, like descriptions of images that a screen reader reads to a blind user.
We use Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Section 508 as our guides. Some organizations require this, and others understand its value as a part of their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging work. We believe it’s fundamental for all learning products.
Accessibility Causes We Support
These organizations are heroes of accessibility and worthy of your support. Join us in helping them thrive!
Each May, we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose is simply to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion. We love that! We make an annual donation to The GAAD Foundation, whose mission is for accessibility to be a core requirement in digital product delivery. We love that, too!
NV Access believes that every blind and vision-impaired person deserves the right to freely & easily access a computer. So do we! They are the makers of NVDA, a free screen reader used around the world. We test our courses on NVDA and make an annual donation for each Artisan who uses the software.
