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Guidelines to help teams create accessible products and services

The concept of accessibility has been around for more than twenty years, yet it’s only recently that more companies have started including it in their development efforts. Developers and testers are recognizing the advantages of incorporating accessibility techniques into their processes. Here are some of these methods specific to agile software development, including a handy checklist.

Agile is a popular framework for software development and project management. We explain how digital accessibility maps to agile concepts.

The INCLUSIVE ADDIE model was created to extend the popularity of the ADDIE model and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in instructional

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in my career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

The Accessible Usability Scale (AUS) is a free tool to measure the usability of a digital product for assistive technology users.

A starting point for questions to ask someone that wants you to give them a job

The Ultimate Guide to Web Accessibility helps you evaluate your website's compliance with ADA and provides direction for mitigating future risk.

Use the IBM Design Accessibility Handbook to create products for everyone.

Learn more about accessible web design examples and the importance of accounting for the needs of all of your website users.

A recent conversation on the importance of process in the creation of accessible applications gave me the nudge to put this article…

This toolkit provides information and resources on how a company’s disability-focused affinity group can promote disability inclusion through the employment life cycle and can enable employees with disabilities to bring their whole selves to work. The founding members of the Disability:IN ERG/BRG Leadership Committee created the toolkit.

What is accessible technology? Explore how IT managers can use innovative technology to improve user experience and make the world a more equitable place.

Register for the 'Webinar: How to Champion Accessibility and Foster Systemic Change' webinar to put your axe-con learnings into practice.

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in my career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

An Accenture survey found that the vast majority of employees with disabilities don’t feel their workplace culture is fully committed to helping them thrive and succeed. This article offers five steps that organizations can take to make such disabilities feel so safe and included that they will be willing to disclose their conditions. And that’s important: The research found that employees who do disclose their disability at work are 30% more engaged — in terms of career satisfaction and aspirations, confidence, and a sense of belonging — than those who don’t.

If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban corners featured a sharp

In many ways, the built world was not designed for you. It was designed for the average person. Standardized tests, building codes, insurance rates, clothing sizes, The Dow Jones – all these measurements are based around the concept of an “average.” The modern use of averages was pioneered by a Belgian mathematician and astronomer named

Simulating disabilities promotes distress and fails to improve attitudes toward disabled people, undermining efforts to improve integration even while participants report more empathetic concern and "understanding of what the disability experience is like." (PsycINFO Database Record

All accessibility managers should be comfortable communicating the following facts and the reasons behind them.

As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

A beginner's guide to digital accessibility.

Guidelines to help teams create accessible products and services

Guidelines to help teams create accessible products and services