To ensure that there is committment throughout the organization is accessibility, we need to ensure that team members are educated on accessibility, because this cannot be assumed. As a digital agency, our focus is on web accessibility. Making our content accessible is a key part of customer centred design. A basic understanding of accessibility issues is important for all staff because it allows our team to work more effectively together. 1/5 people have a disability, so there is a good chance that in an organization our size that not everyone percieves, operates or understands content the same way.
- Deque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grrx2Lva7T0 (<3 minutes)
- W3C WAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SHvU2PKsM (<5 minutes)
- W3C WAI Léonie Watson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1tlLOavvM (39 minutes)
- Why is accessibility important?
- It is a legal requirement
- It is the right thing to do
- It could benefit me now or in the future
- All of the above
Get new staff to install a web accessibility tool like WebAim's WAVE Toolbar extension/plugin
5 - Introduction
10 - Why accessibility matters to our organization
10 - Atoms/bits and lived experience
10 - How we work, and impact on people with disability
10 - Digital accessibility & automated tools (catching the low-hanging fruit)
10 - Basic accessibility testing of sites with WAVE
5 - Questions
Each role in a company may need additional support in how they can best do their job. The UK's DWP Accessibility Manual does a great job in Guidance for your job role as does the USA's Accessibility for Teams. You may need additional training materials for roles like:
- Business Analyst
- Content Designer
- Delivery Manager
- Digital Performance Analyst
- Interaction Designer
- Product Manager
- QA Tester
- Software Engineer or Frontend Developer
- Drupal Developer
- Drupal Site Builder
- Front-end Engineer (headless)
- DevOps/CI Engineer
- User Researcher