You'd never expect to be a great designer after a 2-day training. You spend thousands of hours working on your design skills over a period of years.
You learn new programming languages, new constructs, and new ways of thinking about abstract problem solving, and develop those over thousands of hours over a period of years.
You learn to write better, with more flow, and more richness by honing your craft over thousands of hours over a period of years.
You learn to prioritize and identify customer value after working on many products over thousands of hours over a period of years.
You learn to listen, and make decisions, and direct a team after working with people over thousands of hours over a period of years.
It just doesn't work that way.
1. awareness of things you didn't know before.
2. some practical techniques you can use to improve your practice.
3. some seeds for strategic things you will need to think about later.
1. Time to practice on real projects.
2. Time to reflect on the things you learned from doing the work
3. Time to figure out how you'd approach it differently next time.
There's nothing WRONG with a 2-day accessibility training (or any other subject, for that matter). However, it has to be part of something bigger, not a thing that stands alone by itself.
We have always seen a lot of managers or others in power simply expect that a 2-day training in accessibility will solve all their problems.
1. Underestimation of complexity: "Accessibility = fixing some bugs/defects"
2. Underestimation of time it'll take to become proficient: "We should be all good in 3 months after the training"
3. Misunderstanding about how people build skills: "They were told, now they do"
re: time - yes, you'll do some things well after 3 months. Others take years to be really good.
re: skills - telling isn't teaching, listening isn't learning.
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@bethdean pointed to this last night. Couldn’t agree more: