Inclusive Design for Business (IDB)

Learn necessary skills for bringing accessible solutions to the workplace with three courses related to inclusive design:

• IDB111 Inclusive Design Method
• IDB121 Creating Accessible Digital Media
• IDB141 Inclusive Business Plan

These courses address the needs of individuals and organizations by providing you with innovative and strategic learning opportunities for inclusive human-centred thinking, tools and compliance. As a student, you will seek out points of exclusion, identify situational challenges by recognizing context and content challenges and offer different ways to engage and ensure compliance. 

These microcredentials are for those who have a background in design or communications and individuals already employed in specialized roles in accessibility across the public and private sectors. The focus will be on upgrading your skills and knowledge to enhance business productivity by embracing diversity and inclusion. Awareness of accessibility and inclusive design practices is increasingly relevant across many job categories.

• earn a microcredential for each completed course
• microcredentials for each course are stackable to earn the Inclusive Design for Business microcredential
• each course is delivered in 21 hours over seven weeks
• classes run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. (three hours per week)

The Inclusive Design for Business microcredential will address the needs of organizations by providing you with strategic, innovative and practical business tools necessary for executing inclusive design practices in the workplace. You will learn to implement inclusive design as a business strategy leading to innovation, profit and increased market share.