Integrating Accessibility through Content, User Experience, and Organizational Culture

Everyone knows that creating accessible content and digital experiences is the right thing to do. Right for users, right for businesses, right for society. And yet. Accessibility is still mostly an afterthought, is generally limited to the bare-minimum effort, and is the first thing to get compressed or rushed or entirely cut when there’s budget or schedule pressure.

Why do we have such a hard time walking our walk? Creating truly accessible websites requires that we do more than just using semantic formatting and adding alt tags to images. If we want to build accessibility into our digital experiences from the ground up, we have to start by addressing the ableism embedded in our organizations and work culture.

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1. Integrating Accessibility through Content, User Experience, and Organizational Culture
3. IT’S ABOUT ABLEISM IT’S NOT USUALLY ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY
4. Disability A mismatch between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live Source: World Health Organization
5. MEET KAT, SHE IS AMAZING KAT HOLMES HER BOOK IS GREAT
6. Disability A mismatch between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live Source: World Health Organization
7. Ableism The systemic oppression and denial of needs of people with disabilities
8. RECOGNIZE ABLEISM LEARNING TO
9. BUT ARE ACTUALLY ABLEISM THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE OTHER THINGS
10. THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE OTHER THINGS BUT ARE ACTUALLY ABLEISM Not letting people work from home
11. THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE OTHER THINGS BUT ARE ACTUALLY ABLEISM Emphasis on self-sufficiency
12. THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE OTHER THINGS BUT ARE ACTUALLY ABLEISM Super URGENT!!!!! schedules
13. THINGS TO NOTICE
14. THINGS TO NOTICE ‣ Some of these things sound like other things.
15. THINGS TO NOTICE ‣ Some of these things sound like other things. ‣ None of this happens in isolation.
16. THINGS TO NOTICE ‣ Some of these things sound like other things. ‣ None of this happens in isolation. ‣ Ableism sucks for everyone.
17. WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? If you are a target of ableism:
18. WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? If you are a target of ableism: ‣ Take care of yourself first.
 That’s it, you only get one bullet.
19. WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? If you are a non-target of ableism:
20. WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? ‣ Make sure ableism is part of your official HR and DEI programs. If you are a non-target of ableism:
21. WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? ‣ Make sure ableism is part of your official HR and DEI programs. ‣ Be the person who brings it up 
 all the time. If you are a non-target of ableism:
22. WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? ‣ Make sure ableism is part of your official HR and DEI programs. ‣ Be the person who brings it up 
 all the time. ‣ Unlearn your own myths. If you are a non-target of ableism:
23. IT’S ABOUT ABLEISM IT’S NOT USUALLY ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY