Easy Digital Accessibility: What’s Your +1?

Date & Time

Friday, March 22, 2024 - 4:20 PM PDT  

Location

Platinum 2  

Description

In a perfect world, we practice “shifting left” in digital accessibility, meaning that accessibility is considered from inception through end release. Reality often looks different, though, and accessibility professionals may find themselves brought in partway through or at the end of a project. The result is logging defects, panic, delayed release, and pressure. Overall, development teams can feel blindsided and resentful of the extra work accessibility seems to pose. How can we take a high-pressure high visibility situation and create an environment where everyone feels successful and valued? The +1 practice highlights specific examples of teams’ work in which accessibility is already demonstrated and suggests one additional step to enhance existing work. Each iteration adds one more step until the project is fully accessible. While this can seem time-consuming and even unnecessary, it has long-term impacts because it recognizes effort, breaks accessibility into understandable concepts, and makes success achievable. The outcome is teams that view accessibility positively and proactively incorporate it into future builds.

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Audience

• Information & Communications Technology
• Insurance

Audience Level

Intermediate  

Session Summary (Abstract)

How can we add accessibility into high-pressure, high-visibility situations and make it feel achievable? The +1 practice highlights examples of teams’ work in which accessibility is already demonstrated and gives one additional step to enhance work.  

Primary Topic

Digital Accessibility  

Secondary Topics

• Design
• Development
• Evaluation & Remediation
• Leadership & Strategy

 

Session Type

General Track  

Presenter

• Kathryn Weber-Hottleman
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