I passed my CPACC exam

This March 2024, after practically more than a year of study and preparation, I decided to apply for the CPACC certification exam, I passed with 89%, with the three domains above standard and I am part of the 4,885 IAAP CPACCs, that is why I would like to share how I got here for those who are considering or preparing maybe, and just maybe, I can help them in their accessibility study journey.

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Below I share the courses and certifications taken in the order I study them, as well as direct IAAP documentation that may be useful to you:

• Certified Professional in Accesibility Core Competencies Body of Knowledge
• Introduction to Web Accessibility. W3Cx WAI0.1x. edX
• Introduction to Web Accessibility. W3C
• Competencias básicas en Accesibilidad. Hearcolors (Spanish)
• CPACC exam flash cards
• CPACC Exam Preparation. deque University
• CPACC Exam Preparation. IAPP

Additional courses:

• Taller Online Especialista en Accesibilidad. Instituto de Accesibilidad (Spanish)
• Accesibilidad para Design System y equipos de diseño. Somosedison. Silvia Marquez y Susana Pallero (Spanish)
• Practical Accessibility. Sara Soueidan

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Exam CPACC

CPACC exam question

As you may already know, since part of this information is on the official IAAP website, the exam is based on and is classified into 3 domains:

1. Disabilities, Challenges, and Assistive Technologies.
2. Accessibility and Universal Design.
3. Declarations, Standards, Laws, and Management Strategies.

And each domain will rate them according to your answers like:

- Above Standard

- Near Standard

- Below Standard

I did not know this qualification by domain and I was pleased to know that I was qualified in the 3 domains as above standard.

Something that I also didn’t know or didn’t read was that the passing scaled score is 600, which requires a high grade to pass, and the general score is 200 to 800.

You may wonder if all the documentation and courses, including the exam preparation, are worth studying, and the answer is yes, since for me everything I read and studied helped me be more confident in my knowledge, although sometimes I repeated it in different courses or documentation that I read. Even in the last IAAP exam preparation I did not reach the minimum to pass it, since they ask you a final exam of 100 questions, but it helped me understand how I should reinforce my knowledge before the official exam.

Everything shared here comes from my own experience and the study journey that I decided after an exhaustive search for documentation and courses that in the end one gets lost from so much information, and that I recommend only on a personal basis because it worked for me, if not. You like it and you think it could work for you, I wish you a lot of success and pass so that you can be part of the people who continue to push accessibility as part of our work within organizations or as independents.

Let’s continue sharing knowledge on accessibility LinkedIn Daniel.