Accessibility Pro Academy · Coming soon
Learn accessibility from the people who rely on it every day.
Short, hands-on courses for developers, designers and testers, taught by blind and disabled accessibility experts who use assistive technology for their own work. From experts to developers: how to turn accessibility policy into code you can ship.
- Lived experience
- Policy into action
- Self-paced
Join the waitlist
Be first in when the doors open. It is free and commits you to nothing.
Section 01 · Why an academy
Policies say what. Few people show you how.
Accessibility laws now reach most of the products developers build, yet the same few failures keep shipping: text too faint to read, images with no description, form fields with no label. Checklists name the rule. They rarely show what the failure is like for the person on the other side of the screen, or the smallest change that fixes it. That is what the Academy is for.
Home pages with detected failures
95.9%
Of the top million home pages in February 2026, with 56 errors on an average page. Low-contrast text alone was on 83.9% of them.
People with a significant disability
1.3 bn
About one person in six worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Every one of them is someone's customer, colleague or citizen.
The European Accessibility Act
2025
Since 28 June 2025 it applies to new products and services sold in the EU, from online shops to banking apps and e-books.
Section 02 · What we believe
Three promises the Academy is built on.
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Taught by the people who live it
Every course is led by an accessibility expert who uses assistive technology every day. You learn what a barrier feels like from someone who meets it, not only which rule it breaks. Nothing about us without us.
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Policy into action
Each lesson starts from a requirement in the European Accessibility Act, the ADA, Section 508 or EN 301 549, maps it to the WCAG 2.2 success criteria behind it, and ends with a code change you can merge.
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The easiest way in, at your pace
Short lessons you can take in a coffee break, self-paced, with hands-on labs in the browser. Follow a whole path or take the one lesson you need for the ticket in front of you.
Section 03 · How a lesson works
From a real barrier to a merged fix.
Every lesson is planned around the same four steps, so you always leave with something working, not only something understood.
Step 1 of 4
Meet the barrier
Watch an instructor use a real component with their screen reader, magnifier or keyboard, and hear exactly where it breaks.
Step 2 of 4
Understand the rule
The WCAG success criterion and the law that requires it, in plain language, with the reason it exists.
Step 3 of 4
Fix it yourself
A lab with broken code. You change it, and the same engines Accessibility Pro runs check your fix.
Step 4 of 4
Prove it holds
Test the result with NVDA, VoiceOver or TalkBack, then add a check to your pipeline so it stays fixed.
Section 04 · The first learning paths
What you will learn.
This is the plan, not a catalogue: every path below is being written now, and the list will change with what the waitlist asks for. Each course will publish its full contents before it opens.
Planned
How disabled people use the web
Screen readers, magnification, voice control, switch access, captions and cognitive needs, then WCAG 2.2 in plain language.
Foundations
Planned
Semantic HTML first
Landmarks, headings, lists, buttons and links, and the accessible name. Headings are how most screen reader users move through a page.
WCAG 1.3.1, 2.4.6, 4.1.2
Planned
ARIA, only when it is needed
Roles, states and properties, the ARIA Authoring Practices patterns, and why home pages that use ARIA average more errors than those that do not.
WCAG 4.1.2
Planned
Keyboard and focus
Focus order, visible focus, focus hidden under sticky headers, dialogs, and route changes in single-page apps.
WCAG 2.1.1, 2.4.3, 2.4.7, 2.4.11
Planned
Forms and errors
Labels, instructions and error messages, plus the WCAG 2.2 criteria on re-entering information and logging in without a puzzle.
WCAG 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.7, 3.3.8
Planned
Colour, contrast, motion and target size
Low-contrast text is the most common failure on the web. Fix it in the design tokens, respect reduced motion, and size targets for real fingers.
WCAG 1.4.3, 1.4.11, 2.3.3, 2.5.8
Planned
Components that fight back
Menus, tabs, comboboxes, carousels, toasts and live regions: the widgets that pass an automated check and still fail a person.
WCAG 2.1.1, 2.2.2, 4.1.3
Planned
Testing like a user
NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver and TalkBack for developers, what automated tools reliably catch (30 to 40% of WCAG 2.2) and how to test the rest.
Manual and automated
Planned
From policy to backlog
Read the EAA, ADA Title II and EN 301 549 as an engineer, then write an accessibility statement, an ACR and a remediation backlog your team can finish.
Law and standards
Section 05 · Policy into action
The clock is already running.
These are the dates product teams are working towards. The courses turn each one into the engineering work behind it.
28 June 2025
The European Accessibility Act applies to new products and services sold in the EU.
September 2026
EN 301 549 V4.1.1 is published, bringing WCAG 2.2 into the European standard. It becomes the legal reference once cited in the Official Journal.
26 April 2027
ADA Title II: state and local governments serving 50,000 people or more must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
26 April 2028
ADA Title II: smaller governments and special districts must meet the same standard.
Section 06 · Who it is for
For everyone who ships the product.
Developers
Front-end, full-stack and mobile engineers who want the fix, the reason and the test, in the framework they already use.
Designers
Decisions on colour, focus, motion and layout that make accessible code possible before a line is written.
Testers and QA
Screen reader and keyboard testing you can repeat, and automated checks that fail the build for the right reasons.
Product and compliance leads
What the law asks of your product, in the words your engineers use, and how to turn an audit into work that ships.
Section 07 · Instructors
Meet the first instructors.
The two people who build and test Accessibility Pro. Both use a screen reader every day.
Elena Karamanska
Accessibility specialist
An IAAP CPACC-certified accessibility consultant and screen reader user for more than twenty years, who tests websites and mobile apps with assistive technology and has reviewed more than a thousand websites for accessibility.
Hasan Tayem
Founder
A totally blind digital accessibility specialist, disability rights activist and professional long-distance runner, originally from Jordan and based in Padova, Italy, who uses the NVDA screen reader for all of his digital work.
Teach with us
Do you rely on assistive technology and know it inside out? We are looking for instructors who are Deaf or hard of hearing, have low vision, or have motor or cognitive disabilities, and for people who work with voice control, switch access or magnification every day.
Section 08 · Questions
Asked before the doors open.
When does the Academy open?
We have not set a date, and we will not announce one until the first courses are recorded and tested. People on the waitlist hear first.
What will it cost?
Prices will be published before the Academy opens. Joining the waitlist is free and commits you to nothing.
Will I get a certificate?
Courses are planned to end with a certificate of completion. It shows what you learned. It is not a compliance certificate for your product, and no course replaces testing with disabled people.
Will the Academy itself be accessible?
It has to be. Every video is planned with captions and a transcript, every lab has to work with a keyboard and a screen reader, and the instructors test the platform with their own assistive technology before it opens.
Do I need to know WCAG already?
No. The first path starts from how disabled people use the web. If you already know WCAG, go straight to the path you need.
Can my team learn together?
We would like to hear from teams now. Write to support@accessibilitypro.app with the size of your team and what you need to learn; it decides which courses we build first.
Accessibility is not a feature you add. It is a skill you learn.
Learn it from the people it is for. Join the waitlist and be in the first cohort.
Sources
Checked on 25 September 2026. The legal dates are explained with their own sources on the compliance pages linked above.
- WebAIM Million 2026: the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages
- World Health Organization: disability and health fact sheet
- Directive (EU) 2019/882, the European Accessibility Act
- WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #10
- AccessibleEU: EN 301 549 has been updated (September 2026)
- US Department of Justice: interim final rule extending the ADA Title II dates