Planning and Implementation
Guidance for project planning, policy development, and organizational change
Advocacy and buy-in
Accessibility benefits from broad backing and support. There may also be a need to educate staff about the benefits of accessibility.
Preparing Introduction to accessibility training
Advocacy and buy-in
Accessibility benefits from broad backing and support. There may also be a need to educate staff about the benefits of accessibility.
Organizational accessibility
Bringing about broad change to an organization will help improve the accessibility of any web projects.
Roles that impact on accessibility
Building an accessibility team
Embedding accessibility into project management processes
Developing organizational policy on accessibility
Organizational accessibility
Bringing about broad change to an organization will help improve the accessibility of any web projects.
Running a project
Including accessibility early in the project process helps reduce risk and generally improves the accessibility of the final product.
Integrating accessibility into a project plan
Quick start guides for different project roles
Maintenance and long-term
Regular reviews of content and processes will help identify and address issues. Changing best practice and policies can also be identified and incorporated into organizational processes.
Introduction to accessibility - Find out the basics about accessibility.
WAI Guidelines and Techniques - list of web accessibility standards and guidelines, which are introduced in Essential Components of Web Accessibility.
Web Accessibility and Older People - Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users.
Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web - Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices.
Related resources
Status & Last Modification: October 2014
Editors: Eric Eggert, Shadi Abou-Zahra. Contibutors: Shawn Lawton Henry, Anna Belle Leiserson, Sharron Rush, Bim Egan, the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
Developed with support from the WAI-ACT project, co-funded by the European Commission IST Programme.
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The information needed to help plan for accessibility will vary depending on many factors. Use the following to identify resources that might be more relevant to your situation.
Your role
Size of organization
Organizational awareness of accessibility
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