Unit 06

Access

By the end of this unit you can operate your own site with a keyboard alone, measure it against WCAG rather than a feeling, and name exactly who a specific failure excludes — and your Top 6 does not fail any of it.

Intro to Web Design · members' unit

Access is behind a locked door

Units in Intro to Web Design are for people taking the course. Getting in takes a link or a key — signing in on its own doesn't do it.

What's in this unit · 10 min read

  1. Text alternatives
  2. Structure for assistive technology
  3. Colour and contrast
  4. Keyboard and focus
  5. Auditing

6 quick checkslive HTML/CSS sandboxcode exercises

1 Sign in

With your school Google account. This is how your work reaches the gradebook — it doesn't open the unit by itself.

2 Get in

Open the class link your teacher posted — that's the usual way, and it enrols you on the spot. Or paste an access key if you were handed one.

A key unlocks this browser and keeps your progress here; signing in keeps it with you across devices. Either way the key itself is only ever checked as a hash. Manage all of this on your account, read what signing in stores, or go back to Intro to Web Design.

Sources

  • Gilmour Academy — Intro to Web Design
  • W3C — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2