You simply cannot expect that 2 days of training will get you to where you need to be when it comes to something complex.

You& #39;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& #39;d never expect to be a great developer after a 2-day training.

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& #39;d never expect to be a great writer/content creator after a 2-day training.

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& #39;d never expect to be a great Product Owner/Product Manager after a 2-day training.

You learn to prioritize and identify customer value after working on many products over thousands of hours over a period of years.
You& #39;d never expect to be a great Manager after a 2-day training.

You learn to listen, and make decisions, and direct a team after working with people over thousands of hours over a period of years.
But for some reason, when looking at becoming great at accessibility, suddenly a 2-day training will solve the problem.

It just doesn& #39;t work that way.
When you& #39;re learning about accessibility, a 2-day training is going to get you a few things:

1. awareness of things you didn& #39;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.
But it won& #39;t get you the things that you really need to become proficient with accessibility:

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& #39;d approach it differently next time.
Yes, there& #39;s much more to it than that, but I& #39;m going to stop here for now.

There& #39;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.
A 2-day training isn& #39;t going to give you what you need to become proficient. It gets you started, but doesn& #39;t take you all the way there.

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.
Why?

1. Underestimation of complexity: "Accessibility = fixing some bugs/defects"
2. Underestimation of time it& #39;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: complexity- yes, some things are just bugs. But not everything is.

re: time - yes, you& #39;ll do some things well after 3 months. Others take years to be really good.

re: skills - telling isn& #39;t teaching, listening isn& #39;t learning.
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And yes… you’re right… you could likely rewrite this as:

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It’s the nature of learning and the nature of what we hope to be true versus reality.

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