Making Learning More Accessible
Creating a library with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at its core is essential to our mission at LinkedIn Learning. While weâre proud of our efforts, we also know that thereâs more we can do to make all of our global learners welcome.
A crucial part of this is accessibility. Alongside the accessibility and disability inclusion efforts taking place across LinkedIn and Microsoft, at LinkedIn Learning we're working to be an industry leader in developing engaging, accessible content. With Global Accessibility Awareness Day next week, Iâm excited to share some of what weâve been focused on for the past several months.
Audio Described Courses on LinkedIn Learning
We're on a journey to not only make our LinkedIn Learning platform more accessible, but also to make our course content more accessible. As one piece of this work, weâve begun exploring adding audio descriptions for some of our courses about accessibility and disability, like Digital Accessibility for the Modern Workplace from instructor Hector Minto. By adding these descriptions, our hope is to make more of our learning available to learners who are blind or visually impaired.
In March, we expanded this program by releasing the first-ever audio-described version of our popular Professional Soft Skills Learning Pathway to help job seekers who are blind or visually impaired upskill for in-demand jobs. These courses help learners develop skills that hiring managers value most, from emotional intelligence and critical thinking to unconscious bias and teamwork.
Check them out to learn how to:
All 12 courses in this 13-hour learning path will be unlocked for all of our membersâno subscription requiredâthrough December 31, 2025.
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Making the Case for Accessibility in Your Organization
Many of our customers are eager to learn more about how they can implement disability inclusion best practices within their own organizations. A few of the many benefits include:
We also have two wonderful new courses weâve created to support learning in the accessibility space:Â
And the following courses are free through May 26th aimed at helping you bring accessibility into your day-to-day:
Weâre not stopping there. We have exciting new content in development on topics ranging from UX accessibility to supporting colleagues on the autism spectrum. Weâre always looking to improve our learning experience and roll out new courses to help everyone grow in their careers and think about accessibility and inclusion. Stay tuned for even more updates coming on the accessibility front and thanks for all you're doing to create a more inclusive future of work. And in addition all the above, be sure to also check out Erran Berger's post today about accessibility improvements that we're making across LinkedIn!
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4mo@l
The multiplier effect that LI Learning has in bridging the digital divide is incredible. I'm so happy to see this team recognize this by investing in features that make learning more accessible but also delivering content that helps individuals and companies improve their own accessibility acumen. Much more to come, I'm sure!!
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1yThanks Dan, this is so very important. I'll leverage some of this content for sure.