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Digital Accessibility for Planners – Web

Explore techniques to make their web content created by planners accessible to people with disabilities and compliant with regulations and laws that support disability access. Examples include social media, public outreach and input mechanisms and agency and plan websites.

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Course Info

  • Duration 11 video lessons (84 Mins)
  • Published Published
    2026
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    Introduction
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    Agenda and Framing
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    Recap from the Documents Course
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    Standards
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    Avoiding Silver Bullet Solutions
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    Perceivable
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What You Will Learn

Learn how to apply lessons from document accessibility to web accessibility Understand how to assess web content for basic accessibility features Learn how to identify common access barriers on websites Learn how to produce more accessible web content for people with disabilities Understand how to communicate concerns about web accessibility with IT professionals Learn common solutions to common accessibility barriers

Course Description

In this course, planners will learn techniques that can make their web content — including social media, public outreach and input mechanisms and agency and plan websites — accessible for people with disabilities. This course builds on lessons from the two prior courses on document accessibility and should be taken following those courses, as many of the document techniques also work for web content. We will also teach about checking for keyboard and non-visual access, providing alternative media formats and considerations for accessible visual design. Students will learn ways to bring these concerns to colleagues who focus on website design and maintenance and be able to identify common access barriers and solutions for planning-related web content.

Learn these skills

  • Accessibility
  • Communications & Media
  • Technology
  • Video & Multimedia

AICP CM

AIA CES

This course is 1 LU.

CIP

This course is eligible for self-reported CIP unstructured CPL units.

Meet Your Instructor

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel is an autistic planner, an independent accessibility consultant, and the founder of Opossum House Accessibility. He holds a decade of experience in ensuring compliance with accessibility regulations and helping public and private organizations include and support people with disabilities.

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Thomas Hamed

Thomas Hamed

Thomas Hamed, AICP is a transportation planner who specializes in commuter transportation and mobility for all. Currently a consultant specializing in federal commuter transportation, Thomas has also led mobility programs for both the City of Alexandria in Virginia, and for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta.

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