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.
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Organizational awareness of accessibility
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