Fable Upskill

Fable Upskill delivers custom training to ensure your product teams have the knowledge and skills to build truly inclusive products.

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Fable Upskill

Fable Upskill delivers custom training to ensure your product teams have the knowledge and skills to build truly inclusive products.

Book a demo

Designed for your team

Fable Upskill provides video-based courses designed by accessibility experts specifically for your team. The custom courses directly incorporate your products and designs, enabling your team to apply their new skills immediately. They also are custom to the tools that your team uses and the roles that you want to train.

Designed for your team

Fable Upskill provides video-based courses designed by accessibility experts specifically for your team. The custom courses directly incorporate your products and designs, enabling your team to apply their new skills immediately. They also are custom to the tools that your team uses and the roles that you want to train.

Targeted training for specific roles

Everyone on your team plays a unique role in building inclusive products. Fable Upskill enables your team to develop key accessibility skills and serves as a companion in their day to day work. With Fable Upskill:

  • Designers learn how to annotate design deliverables using your own prototypes 

  • Developers understand how your navigation menu works for screen reader users

  • QA analysts develop workflows of how and when to use accessibility testing tools

Role-specific training

Everyone on your team plays a unique role in building inclusive products. Fable Upskill enables your team to develop key accessibility skills and serves as a companion in their day to day work.

Intro to Digital Accessibility

Learn the basics. In this course, we’ll cover how to talk about disability, different perspectives of disability and accessibility, as well as how assistive technology works with your products.

Learn the basics about accessibility and how assistive technology works on your products.

Accessible User Experience

Explore how fonts, colours, images, and focus indicators impact people with disabilities. Learn about processes to support accessibility, such as annotating designs and inclusive research.

Learn new processes, such as annotating designs and inclusive research.

Accessible Web Development

Understand how assistive technology interacts with the DOM, and how to build for it. Learn about building accessible forms, navigation menus, and notifications.

Understand how assistive technology interacts with the DOM, and how to build for it.

Accessible Mobile Apps

Become familiar with how mobile app experiences work for people with disabilities, dive deep into iOS or Android, and how to test for accessibility in your workflow.

Become familiar with how mobile apps work for people with disabilities.

Testing Accessibility

Learn how to test if websites and web applications will work for people who use assistive technology. Practice using browser plugins and learn when to leverage testing tools throughout QA.

Learn how to test if websites and web applications will work for people who use assistive tech.

Custom Curriculum

Have a unique technology stack or process to train the team in? We can help with that.

Have a unique technology stack or process to train the team in? We can help with that.

Individual progress chart with team functions engineering, research, and design

Manage and track accessibility training

It’s essential that accessibility knowledge is distributed. Fable Upskill allows you to see how your team is progressing in their skill development as individuals and as functions. With Fable Upskill:

  • Ensure your team has a common understanding of accessibility
  • Track accessibility skills for each team function

  • Operationalize accessibility training

Track accessibility training

It’s essential that accessibility knowledge is distributed. Fable Upskill allows you to see how your team is progressing in their skill development as individuals and as functions. With Fable Upskill:

  • Build a common understanding of accessibility

  • Track accessibility skills for each team function

  • Operationalize accessibility training
Graphics of completion across Engineering team, Design team, and research team at 25%, 60%, and 100% completion respectively

Learn directly from people with disabilities

People with disabilities are uniquely qualified to teach about accessibility through their lived experience. With Fable Upskill, your team can learn about how people with disabilities use assistive technology and how they experience your products. For example, your team might learn:

  • Tips on alignment of content from low vision users

  • How ARIA impacts a screen reader user’s experience

  • How a person with a motor disability navigates interfaces

Learn from the experts

People with disabilities are uniquely qualified to teach about accessibility through their lived experience. With Fable Upskill, your team can learn about how people with disabilities use assistive technology and how they experience your products. For example, your team might learn:

  • Tips on alignment of content from low vision users

  • How ARIA impacts a screen reader user’s experience

  • How a person with a motor disability navigates interfaces

Content based on your tools

Fable Upskill improves how your team uses your existing tools to build inclusive products. Get access to interactive exercises that:

  • Prepare your researchers to engage people with disabilities

  • Ensure that your designers know what to communicate with developers

  • Help your developers evaluate their own work

A checklist of different tools including Angular, React Js, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, and a custom tool

Content based on your tools

Fable Upskill improves how your team uses your existing tools to build inclusive products. Get access to interactive exercises that, for example:

  • Prepare your researchers to engage people with disabilities

  • Ensure that your designers know what to communicate with developers

  • Help your developers evaluate their own work

Less guidelines, more practical how-to​s

Most accessibility training focuses on understanding compliance guidelines. Fable Upskill trains your team in practical, real-world skills that they can apply directly. For example, give your team more confidence to:

  • Build accessible forms and navigation menus

  • Understand how fonts, colours, images, and focus indicators impact people with disabilities

  • Learn how to test websites and apps with people with disabilities and various assistive technologies

Accessible Web Development course with various modules available

Practical how-to​s

Most accessibility training focuses on understanding compliance guidelines. Fable Upskill trains your team in practical, real-world skills that they can apply directly. For example, give your team more confidence to:

  • Build accessible forms and navigation menus

  • Understand how fonts, colours, images, and focus indicators impact people with disabilities

  • Learn how to test websites and apps with people with disabilities and various assistive technologies

Let’s talk

We can work with your team to create custom accessibility training, modify core courses and plan out a learning roadmap for your product team.

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