Skills
Designing digital services accessible to everyone
Sufficient contrast, keyboard navigation, alternative text, structure a screen reader can follow, frugality on a slow connection: accessibility widens a service's audience and improves the experience for all its users.
Designing for real conditions
An interface designed for a new screen, a fast connection and perfect eyesight works for some visitors. Designed for an entry-level phone, an irregular network and contrast readable in bright sunlight, it works for everyone, including the first group. That is the logic of the block: start from the strongest constraint and let everything else benefit. The programme teaches it alongside the component system that makes those choices last.
- Check contrast, target size and keyboard navigation across a flow
- Structure a page so a screen reader renders it faithfully
- Lighten an interface for an irregular connection and a modest device
- Encode accessibility rules into a component system
The modules that carry it
A cross-curricular module spread over several years reads « Years 1 to 3 »: it runs alongside the whole programme rather than a single term.
| Teaching block | Programme | Taught hours | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accessibility and real constraints | User Experience Design and Digital Creation | 180 h | Year 2 |
| Component systems | User Experience Design and Digital Creation | 180 h | Year 2 |
| Web foundations | Web and Mobile Development | 200 h | Year 1 |
The target functions
Each qualification carries a code from the official catalogue and is prepared through continuing education.
| Professional qualification | Target occupation | Level | Taught volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interface Designer | interface designer, UI designer | 5 · Senior technician and supervisor | 700 h |
| Design and User Experience Manager | design manager, UX lead | 6 · Manager and professional | 750 h |
| Web Development and Integration Technician | web integrator, front-end developer | 4 · Skilled employee and operative | 600 h |
Your level of command, stated plainly
You audit an existing service for accessibility and deliver the corrected components that make the rule permanent. A skill is best stated by what it lets you carry out on your own, on completion.
- teaching blocks
- 3
- of taught instruction
- 560 h
- credits in total
- 56
- professional qualifications concerned
- 3
Catalogue rule: one credit is twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught.
The available entry points
The level shown indicates the award targeted; the duration, the real commitment in months of taught work.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| User Experience Design and Digital Creation | Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 4 800 000 GNF per year |
| Web and Mobile Development | Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 5 200 000 GNF per year |
What applicants ask
Does accessibility also cover mobile applications?
Yes, with its own rules: touch target size, system voice feedback, behaviour in data-saving mode. The block covers them together.
How is the result verified?
With automated tooling for the measurable rules, then with a keyboard and screen-reader walkthrough, which surfaces what no tool detects on its own.
Is this skill relevant to a developer?
It applies exactly where they write: markup structure, tab order, field labels. The web foundations block puts it in place from year one.
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