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From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt
Date: Jul 7, 2014 7:08AM

I am familiar with the Lynda.com accessibility tutorials and generally recommend them.

One is "Web Accessibility Principles" by Soe Gillenwater which is a few years old. The basic concepts it's teaching are sound, but it assumes Section 508 and that you're working working with Dreamweaver. However I think most code lessons can be applied elsewhere.

I also recommend their "Creating Accessible PDFs" as it covers the how-tos for a lot of common scenarios. It's by Chad Chelius who is an Adobe Certified Instructor.

In general Lynda.com is starting to incorporate accessibility in many of their other tutorials such as Flash, Acrobat, icon fonts and other topics.

Hope this helps.

Elizabeth

P.S. There is the course "Improving SEO Using Accessibility Techniques" which also has some useful information but is much shorter than the others. IMO though the title is a little off-putting (although well-implemanted accessibility really does improve SEO).

On Jul 6, 2014, at 2:00 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> From: Greg Wocher < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] Question about lynda.com
> Date: July 6, 2014 12:32:05 PM EDT
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> Hello all,
> I was doing some google searches yesterday looking up various web accessibility topics and came across lynda.com. It is a tutorial website. They have courses on quite a few topics. I happen to notice they seem to have some tutorials on web accessibility. I was wondering if anyone has ever taken a look at this website? I also see it as one of the sponsors for the various TWIT shows.
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> Thanks,
> Greg Wocher
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