Make a London Budgeting App Accessible for Visually Impaired Users
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Audit a budgeting app against WCAG 2.1 AA, find 10+ issues, and prioritize fixes. Complete the challenge to earn your verifiable certificate.
The scenario
A privately held budgeting-app startup of around 50 people, based in London and serving young direct-to-consumer professional customers across the UK, is under pressure: accessibility complaints are rising and an advocacy group is threatening to go public, just as the company prepares its next funding round.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
How can the app be made genuinely usable for visually impaired customers within tight engineering constraints, without harming the experience of existing users?
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria to evaluate a real product interface
- Translate qualitative user complaints into prioritized, evidence-based product issues
- Balance user impact against engineering effort when sequencing a backlog
- Produce inclusive design fixes that improve accessibility without harming existing users
- Write a concise business case that persuades non-technical decision-makers
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Accessibility Audit
Apply accessibility audit to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Wcag Standards
Apply wcag standards to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Ux Design
Design intuitive user experiences grounded in research and usability principles.
- Prioritization
Apply prioritization to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Business Case Writing
Apply business case writing to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Product Analyst
This challenge mirrors the core analyst loop of turning messy user signals into a defensible, prioritized plan. You practice auditing a product, ranking issues by impact and effort, and writing a business case—exactly what hiring teams expect from an entry-level product analyst.
This challenge sharpens
- accessibility-audit
- prioritization
- business-case-writing
Accessibility Specialist
By auditing a real interface against WCAG 2.1 AA and proposing inclusive fixes, you build the foundational skill set of an accessibility specialist: standards fluency, evidence-based findings, and design recommendations that make products usable for everyone.
This challenge sharpens
- accessibility-audit
- wcag-standards
- ux-design
Junior UX Designer
Translating audit findings into mockups that improve usability without alienating existing users develops the inclusive-design judgment and communication a junior UX designer needs to advocate for accessible patterns within product constraints.
This challenge sharpens
- ux-design
- wcag-standards
- accessibility-audit