You build inclusive products by engaging people with disabilities throughout the entire process. Testing at the end finds what's broken; co-creating from the start shapes what gets built. You'll map your current lifecycle, find the gaps where you can engage disabled people as co-creators (not just testers), and practice the methods that turn inclusion into part of how the team works — whether your team is shipping with traditional handoffs, AI-assisted tools, or somewhere in between.
You'll leave able to
- Identify where in your current lifecycle to engage people with disabilities as co-creators
- Bring functional user needs into your process
- Meet the access needs of disabled people in your design decisions
- Keep access needs from getting lost between intent and implementation
- Recognize where AI-generated content, designs, and code introduce new accessibility risks — and how to catch them early
- Scale inclusive practices through the tools & methods your team uses
Who this is for: cross-functional teams ready to change how they work together, not just their vocabulary.
This is not for you if: you or your team are looking for a one-time compliance checklist, or a single role trying to solve accessibility on everyone else's behalf.
You'll put accessibility in the middle of your design work, where it belongs. You'll learn by doing: in structured design critiques and collaborative workshops on real challenges, you'll identify accessibility barriers, iterate on solutions, and improve experiences for disabled people. That applies whether your designs start with a blank canvas, a component library, or an AI-generated prototype. Bringing your own products in flight makes the experience richer, but activities are grounded in real problems that connect to the decisions you make every day. Includes homework and skill checks to make sure the learning sticks.
You'll leave able to
- Spot accessibility barriers in your own designs before they ship
- Iterate on designs so they work for disabled people, not just around them
- Run design critiques where access concerns show up as normal review feedback
- Apply an accessibility lens to AI-generated designs and suggestions — knowing when to trust them, push back, or start over
- Build a personal accessibility practice that continues long after the workshop
Who this is for: designers who want accessibility to be part of their craft, not a checklist delegated elsewhere.
This is not for you if: you're looking for a quick pass/fail against WCAG, or expect accessibility to be someone else's job once the design is done.
Accessibility leadership asks you to do two different jobs: see what good looks like, and move your organization toward it. The second one is where most programs stall. Product creation can now outpace any accessibility program — and at the same time, leaders have new tools to work faster and show impact. You'll build the strategic skills to move accessibility forward: using data to prioritize, communicating progress in ways leadership hears, and building the influence that keeps accessibility moving long after the workshop ends. You'll work through real challenges, not hypotheticals.
You'll leave able to
- Use an evidence-based approach to prioritize accessibility work where it has the most impact
- Build a measurement approach that demonstrates progress to executives and funders
- Make the case for accessibility in language that resonates with whoever you need to move — legal, product, engineering, executives
- Navigate the organizational dynamics that stall accessibility programs
- Lead with confidence when you're the only accessibility voice in the room
- Identify where AI tools can accelerate your accessibility program — and where human judgment still has to lead
Who this is for: people responsible for moving accessibility forward across teams and up to leadership — not just doing the accessibility work themselves.
This is not for you if: you're looking for technical skills to apply yourself, or a playbook to run verbatim — every organization is different, so we'll build an approach that fits yours.