Building an Enterprise-Level Accessibility Skills Program for Development Teams
summary
An enterprise competency‑based program uses Deque modules plus live followups, weekly office hours and code consultation to move accessibility left into design and dev, not just QA. It runs large awareness events (about 868 attendees and earlier 500+ sessions) then prescribes role modules and hands‑on training for developers and testers, teaching dev tools, mobile talkback/voiceover and the acts auditor, plus screen‑reader practice with JAWS and NVDA. Some divisions make training mandatory, culture change is gradual but traction grows from middle management down.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:53What is competency-based training
- 3:15Why adopt this approach
- 7:09Cost of delayed accessibility
- 9:22Enterprise-level awareness sessions
- 14:46Role-specific training modules
- 17:23Live training and tools
- 22:02Lessons learned from the program
- 26:37Q&A session
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