Last night was the last Wellington Web Accessibility Meetup of the year, The Path of Least Resistance Toward Accessibility, and it was great! Below are my (sketch)notes.
Dianne Tennent gave a great talk on “How can we embed Accessibility into the way we work?”
- Ideally, accessibility from the ground up.
- Be aware that enthusiasm can come in waves.
- Some resistances to doing accessibility work: Time; WCAG; Expertise; Priorities; Technical Risk.
A path to accessibility:
- C-level Mandate.
- Leverage automation.
- map coverage, prioritise.
- Don’t reinvent the wheel.
- Focus on the human quotient.
- Talk about debt.
- Aim low.
- Low hanging fruit.
- Within-team collaboration.
- Cross-team knowledge distribution.