Panel: Getting Your Organization Started with Accessibility
summary
Practical steps and exact wins: they launch an ambassador program by training one ambassador per discipline, funded with under £10,000 initially; build playbooks, an internal documentation hub and accessibility workshops; adopt a simple maturity model that tracks product conformance, team knowledge and testing with people with disabilities; use regulator requirements and client numbers (example: ~350,000 affected users) and occasional lawsuits or audits to secure leadership funding and shift-left tooling.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to accessibility journey
- 7:23What is accessibility really
- 16:00Disability as a human issue
- 21:06Inflection point for funding
- 30:19Overcoming organizational blockers
- 33:31Proving accessibility ROI
- 40:19Need for dedicated accessibility teams
- 46:04Grassroots change strategies
- 52:32Advice for accessibility beginners
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