Don’t let your vision be a dream

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Eight concrete lessons on building a corporate accessibility program: start with the subtitle system in Assassin’s Creed Origins as a low‑cost early win, push accessibility info into customer FAQs to reduce bad purchases, leverage PR to surface usage data and get executive sponsorship (team officially created after a CEO follow‑up), standardize stage‑gate requirements and added accessibility checkbox before production in 2021, scale by centralizing reusable engine work (Snowdrop and Envy) while delegating accountability across 45+ studios.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 3:11Building trust and credibility
3. 5:54First accessibility win and early lessons
4. 9:20Expanding influence with the fisherman approach
5. 12:27Celebrating successes and changing mindsets
6. 14:11Long-term vision and company-wide goals
7. 16:38Understanding company hierarchy and delegation
8. 19:48Collaborating with teams and soft power
9. 21:14Delegating to policy teams and HQ
10. 24:03Centralizing and tracking global progress
11. 25:45Finding efficiency gains and reusable solutions
12. 27:31Staying humble and learning from others
13. 30:57Closing remarks and Q&A introduction
14. 31:39Q&A: Communicating your vision effectively
15. 34:27Q&A: Advocating for accessibility as an engineer
16. 37:52Q&A: First step to build organization-wide program
17. 40:40Q&A: Resources for junior engineers
18. 43:31Q&A: Encouraging teams to seek support
19. 47:02Q&A: Advocacy vs guilt tripping leaders
20. 49:06Q&A: Driving bottom-up vision in higher education

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