Training & Certification

Improve your accessibility practices through professional development opportunities

Training that Transforms

Whether you’re looking to deepen your personal understanding or train your full staff, The Hub offers a variety of learning formats to meet your needs including live workshops, self-paced courses, and facilitated learning cohorts. Our offerings cover core access concepts, legal requirements, and real-world best practices, with a focus on reflection, implementation, and lasting impact.

Cultural Access Practitioner Certification

Now Available! Become a Certified Cultural Access Practitioner!

This comprehensive, 7-module self-paced program addresses organizational practices, spaces, services, communications, programming, and accessibility planning and culminates in a formal Cultural Access Practitioner Certification.

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First of Its Kind

This first-of-its-kind national certification program is for arts and culture professionals committed to accessibility, inclusion, and organizational change.

Build, Learn, and Improve

Build expertise in cultural accessibility and learn actionable strategies to improve accessibility work within their organizations and across the sector using disability-centered frameworks and practical tools.

Earn Recognition

Earn recognition as Certified Cultural Access Practitioners and join a growing national network of trained leaders working to advance accessibility, strengthen organizational practice, and shape the future of arts and culture.

Improve your Practice. Strengthen your Organization. Transform our Sector

Training for Individuals

Build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead accessibility work in arts and culture.

Training for Organizations

Equip your staff to make accessibility part of how your organization plans, works, and serves its community.

Training for Networks

Help the organizations you support build stronger accessibility practices and greater collective impact.

Customized training

Have a specific goal or challenge in mind? We offer personalized virtual and in-person training tailored to your organization’s needs. 

Reach out to TheHub@OpenDoorArtsMA.org to begin the conversation.

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Access Myth Busters: Replacing Assumptions with Better Practice (Individual)

  • Who Is It For: Individual
  • Topic: Communication, Essentials, Programming, Services, Spaces
  • Cost: $55
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Examine common misconceptions about disability and accessibility that can create unnecessary barriers. Through practical examples, learners will replace assumptions with more accurate, respectful, and effective approaches.
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Access Myth Busters: Replacing Assumptions with Better Practice (Up to 50 people)

  • Who Is It For: Organization, Network
  • Topic: Communication, Essentials, Programming, Services, Spaces
  • Cost: $550
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Examine common misconceptions about disability and accessibility that can create unnecessary barriers. Through practical examples, learners will replace assumptions with more accurate, respectful, and effective approaches. If you're interested in…
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Accessibility Assessment & Planning

  • Who Is It For: Organization, Network
  • Topic: Communication, Essentials, Programming, Services, Spaces
  • Cost: Custom Price
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Support your organization or organizations across your network in completing accessibility self-assessments and completing access plans. Our team can provide support, training and facilitation along the way, and collect aggregate…
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All About Access Services (Individual)

  • Who Is It For: Individual
  • Topic: Services
  • Cost: $55
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Learn how to navigate accessibility requests with confidence while creating welcoming experiences for people with disabilities. This introductory session explores legal responsibilities, best practices, and practical approaches to evaluating requests,…
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All About Access Services (Up to 50 people)

  • Who Is It For: Organization, Network
  • Topic: Services
  • Cost: $550
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Learn how to navigate accessibility requests with confidence while creating welcoming experiences for people with disabilities. This introductory session explores legal responsibilities, best practices, and practical approaches to evaluating requests,…
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All About Service Animals (Individual)

  • Who Is It For: Individual
  • Topic: Essentials, Services
  • Cost: $55
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Understand the rights of people who use service animals and the responsibilities of cultural organizations. Learners will explore common scenarios, appropriate staff responses, and ways to develop clear and welcoming…
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All About Service Animals (Up to 50 people)

  • Who Is It For: Organization, Network
  • Topic: Essentials, Services
  • Cost: $550
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Understand the rights of people who use service animals and the responsibilities of cultural organizations. Learners will explore common scenarios, appropriate staff responses, and ways to develop clear and welcoming…
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All About Visual Description (Individual)

  • Who Is It For: Individual
  • Topic: Communication, Services
  • Cost: $55
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Learn how visual description can make visual information, art, performances, and experiences more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. This introductory course covers foundational techniques and…
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All About Visual Description (Up to 50 people)

  • Who Is It For: Organization, Network
  • Topic: Communication, Services
  • Cost: $550
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Learn how visual description can make visual information, art, performances, and experiences more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. This introductory course covers foundational techniques and…
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Capacity-Building at Scale

  • Who Is It For: Network
  • Topic: Communication, Essentials, Programming, Services, Spaces
  • Cost: Custom Price
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Embed accessibility into the systems and processes that shape your network. We can help develop accessibility criteria, rubrics, funding incentives, application and reporting processes, shared tools, and progress measures that…
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Cultural Access Practitioner Certification — Expert Facilitated

  • Who Is It For: Individual
  • Topic: Communication, Essentials, Programming, Services, Spaces
  • Cost: $850
  • Start Time: Structured
Complete the Cultural Access Practitioner Certification alongside a learning community of cultural professionals. The facilitated experience combines independent coursework with guided discussions, peer learning, and opportunities to apply course concepts…
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Cultural Access Practitioner Certification — Self-Paced

  • Who Is It For: Individual
  • Topic: Communication, Essentials, Programming, Services, Spaces
  • Cost: $650
  • Start Time: Anytime/Self-Lead
Develop the knowledge and practical skills to advance accessibility throughout a cultural organization. This comprehensive, 7-module self-paced program addresses organizational practices, spaces, services, communications, programming, and accessibility planning and culminates…
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