Martin takes us through the things he has done at Sage to create a culture of accessibility, and give us some top tips for how we might do similar in the organisations we work in; large, small, or somewhere in between.
of accessibility specialists • Working with designers and developers to make their work more accessible • Helping product owners prioritise work • Accessibility audits • Training sessions and presentations • Community building
woven into the fabric of your team’s work • Consider accessibility as early as possible • Ask for accessibility critique little and often • Inter-team accountability is the goal • If ‘ready to dev’ is your checkpoint, you’re too late • If quality assurance testing is your checkpoint, you’re way too late
accessible • Accessible goes beyond WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliance • Use your products with assistive technology • Test with disabled people www.tempertemper.net/blog/accessibility-doesnt-stop-at-wcag-compliance
tact, and good relationships • There are battles to be had: • To fi x existing accessibility bugs • To integrate accessibility in design/development processes • There’s a lot to learn and a lot that can be missed • Change can be very slow
that represent your potential user base • Push for budget if your actual user base doesn’t re fl ect the potential • In the interim, test with willing colleagues and friends with disabilities or impairments
make overarching company or business unit decisions • Directors, executives, etc. • Project managers • Not always easy to get hold of • Very few in number
The real power lies with: • User researchers • Designers (service, content, interaction) • Developers and quality assurance testers • Product owners • Much easier to reach • Lots of them
time you make a conscious choice … rather than just letting things happen or accepting what is handed to you by others … you are ful fi lling your responsibility” youtu.be/J0ucEt-La9w
design • Sit in on as many as possible • Contribute to discussion • Arrange deep-dive sessions when needed webaim.org/blog/accessibility-lipstick-on-a-usability-pig/
specialist • 10 minutes per person • Ask an accessibility question • Get help with an accessibility challenge • Offer advice to others • Sit back with a coffee
Central place where everyone can fi nd out about all the community things • Instructions on how to request an accessibility audit • Resources, for example: • Getting started with assistive technologies • Helpful software • Testing methods
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