a11yTOConf2019

Designing Accessibility Education In Organizations

What tools do you use to educate?
Why is it challenging? ○ Many roles ○ Many learning needs ○ Complex material ○ Many contexts

What happens when you have a service without a system?
Bad examples of a11y: ○ “Just send us the testing tool and we’ll get started!” ○ “We’re launching next week and we want to make sure everything is compliant” ○ “I set up an hour with you to learn about all the a11y convers for this new project we’re kicking off next week”
“It’s very easy to become the service yourself, where you’re a step in someone else’s workflow.”

Collaborative learning
Information literacy: is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of inormation, the understanding of how infomration is produced and valued, and the use…… ○ Teaching people Discover resources efficiently ○ Evaluate their usefulness (is it useful) ○ Understand their context(who wrote it, why, what’s their agenda) ○ Create new work ○ Participate in community of practice
Help people find things instead of creating them yourself

Meet the student where they are

Aim for literacy, not expertise.

A11y education in a organization is a virus in a resistant organism.
We divide the education into Roles and difficulty
Role ===> Team ===> Organization (wrong)
Organization ===> Team ===> Role (recommended)
Measure energy and literacy instead of difficulty.
Examples:
[FIND Examples]
The goal is to give people just enough info to get started,

Start a campfire to attract friends.

Sometimes they have formal code reviews
Sometimes they do it in agile or they meet in person

Use the following template to report any a11y issue.

Write more formal specs (a11y specs):

Find in the github repo Submitting a PR you need to check that you have done A.. B.. or C

a11y Focus Orderer Allows you to identify what order the focus should be, gives responsibility to the designer.

Leverage existing strengths

Start whenever you can

Don’t expect progress to be linear