Sustaining Accessibility – an Enterprise Commitment
Speaker: Sam Chandrashekar
Twitter: @sambhavi
“Diversity is our world’s greatest asset, and inclusion is our biggest challenge”
Accessibility is dynamic and with adding new things there is a risk of losing it/
Accessibility Education:
- It’s not a static state
- It’s not a checklist
- A11y is vulnerable
Sustaining accessibility:
- It’s a process, it’s a process of keeping, attempting to keep our sites accessible.
- It is the responsibility of every organization to sustain the accessibility that its designers, developers and others work hard to attain.
Risks to Accessibility:
- Critical employee turnover
- Inadequate accessibility training (onboarding training - no accessibility training)
- Changes in regulatory requirements
- Inadequate oversight in product management
- Loss of technology interoperability
Management of Risks:
1. Employee turnover
- Software is a dynamic field.
Challenge:
- How do we externalize intrinsic knowledge?
Suggestion:
- Promote active internal discussion channels for problem solving. (Example use of SLACK).
2. Accessibility training (or lack of)
- Research, design, development, testing, product management, support
Challenge:
- How do we provide useful and usable training resources?
Suggestion:
3. Regulatory changes
- How do we create accessibility SMEs across the organization?
- Promote collaborative authoring of knowledge base articles.
Organizational Commitments:
- Prioritize accessibility as a core value
- Support employees in creating knowledge assets
- Invest in infrastructure for knowledge management
Diversity is our world’s greatest asset and inclusion is our biggest challenge. (Dr. Jutta > Treviranus)
The following notes were taken by: Quimana Boots
“Diversity is our world’s greatest asset, and inclusion is our bigest challenge”
- Accessibility is dynamic and with adding new things there is a risk of losing it
- Sustaining accessibility is a process
- Attain accessibility then sustain it
- What are the risks to accessibility?
- What are the challenges we need to keep it?
- Who has the power to support us in the task of sustaining?
- Risks to Accessibility
- Critical employee turnover
- Inadequate accessibility training
- accessibility during in onboarding?
- Changes in regulatory requirements
- Inadequate oversight in product management
- introducing new features that break accessibility
- Loss of technology interoperability
- Manage Risks
- Employee turnover
- How do we externalize intrinsic knowledge
- Promote active internal discussion channels for problem solving
- Accessibility Training
- Design, Development, Testing, Product Management, Research, Support
- How do we provide useful,useable retaining resources
- Promote creation of just-in time resources
- Essentially clear and accessible documentation and resources
- Regulatory Changes
- Affects all aspects of an organization
- How do we create accessibility SMEs across the organization?
- Promote collaborative authoring of the knowledge-based articles
- Enterprise Commitment
- Prioritize accessibility as a core value
- support employees in creating knowledge assets
- invest in Infrastructure for knowledge management