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Learn Accessible Web Design

A short, focused Pro course where Fredrik Ridderfalk teaches accessible HTML by handing you a real, broken site and walking you through fixing it.

Quick answer​

This is Scrimba's Pro-tier accessibility course, about 1.6 hours of interactive challenges taught by Fredrik Ridderfalk. You learn the fundamentals of writing accessible markup, semantic HTML, sensible structure, and the basics of ARIA, by repairing a real-world website rather than studying rules in the abstract. It is short and practical, aimed at developers who already write HTML but have never made it accessible.

Is it worth your time?​

Accessibility is one of those skills that quietly separates professional work from hobby work, and this course teaches it the right way: by fixing things. Instead of memorising the WCAG spec, you work through a real site, find what is broken for screen reader and keyboard users, and repair it. At 1.6 hours it is short enough to finish in an afternoon and walk away with habits you will actually keep.

The honest caveat is scope. This is a focused introduction, not a complete accessibility curriculum. It covers semantic HTML and ARIA basics well, but it will not make you an accessibility specialist or cover deep topics like complex widget patterns or full audit workflows. Treat it as the foundation it is.

What you'll learn​

The course is built around a single guided rebuild rather than separate chapters. You start with a site that looks fine but fails for assistive technology, then work challenge by challenge to fix it. Along the way you cover semantic HTML elements and why they matter, proper heading and landmark structure, accessible forms and labels, focus and keyboard navigation, and where ARIA attributes genuinely help versus where native HTML already does the job.

Because it is challenge-driven, you are typing and testing fixes the whole time rather than watching. That hands-on loop is what makes the lessons stick on a topic that is easy to nod along to and forget.

Who it's for, and who should skip it​

It fits developers who already write HTML and CSS and want to make their work usable by everyone, and it is a good fit for designers who hand off markup. It is also useful for anyone preparing for a job where accessibility is a stated requirement.

Skip it if you have never written HTML, since the challenges assume you can read and edit markup. Skip it too if you need an exhaustive, audit-level accessibility course; this is an introduction by design.

Prerequisites​

Working HTML and CSS. You should be comfortable reading markup and making edits. No JavaScript is required, and no prior accessibility knowledge is assumed.

Where it fits​

This course is a standalone Pro course rather than a named path member, but it slots well alongside the frontend fundamentals on the Frontend Developer Path. Accessibility is a skill best layered on once you can already build pages.

Free or Pro​

This is a Pro course, so it needs a Scrimba subscription. Pro also covers the full career paths, the coding challenges, the Discord, and certificates. See current plans for what Pro costs in your region.

Strengths and limits​

What it does well: it teaches accessibility through repair rather than recitation, it is short enough to actually finish, and the challenge format keeps you hands-on throughout.

Where it is limited: the scope is introductory, it sits behind Pro rather than being free, and it focuses on HTML accessibility rather than the wider picture of accessible JavaScript components or testing tooling.

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