Accessibility Across the Organization Flashcards
What are the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Recommendations?
- Initiate
- Plan
- Implement
- Sustain
What is the Business Disability Forum’s Accessibility Maturity Model?
Based on Accessible Technology Charter, has 10 commitments for good ICT accessibility practices
Org assesses progress on scale of 1-5:
1. Informal - no documentation or process in place
2. Defined - documented but not actioned or completed once
3. Repeatable - process established & actioned consistently
4. Managed - Process monitored and improved, business as usual
5. Best practice - innovate, improve, & share
What is the European Agency for Special Needs & Inclusive Education Guidelines?
- Policy
- Plan
- Practice
What is the Capability Maturity Model for Software, Adapted?
by Carnegie Mellon
Maturity levels:
- Initial: capability is ad hoc and unreliable
- Policies are in place
- Defined: standard accessibility processes are documented and integrated into whole
- Managed: Org sets quantitative quality goals
- Optimizing: entire org focused on continuous process improvement
What are recommendations for evaluating for accessibility?
- Ensure the product or service is fit for its purpose.
- Design for usability by people with disabilities.
- Use a born accessible approach to design.
- Create reusable design and code libraries that help developers code for accessibility.
- Use quality assurance tools, methods, and protocols including accessibility evaluation tools. Do not rely solely on automated checkers, as they only catch about 25% of defects. Human evaluation is critical to ensuring the product or service created is accessible.
- Perform formative, summative, and continuous evaluations. Test throughout the project lifecycle and any time new content is added or code is updated.
Include people with disabilities in evaluations. - If there are gaps in your organization’s capabilities, use outside expert analysis and consultation until you build up in-house expertise.
