Care & Feeding of Accessibility Professionals
summary
A volunteer group is building a mentoring program from the Digital Accessibility Eldering Project and reports concrete signals: an emailed survey expected to get 100 responses hits ~320 in two weeks, about 45% want both give and receive mentoring, and ~66% of respondents have five years or less in accessibility. Problems named are overwhelm, lack of training and leadership support. Work done so far: surveys and focus groups (first with people with disabilities), hundreds of volunteers, plans for 3–7 person cohorts, pilots, W3C wiki and AccessibilityMentoring@gmail.com for contact.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:27Digital Accessibility Eldering Project
- 4:46Why Accessibility Mentoring?
- 7:55Our Approach
- 18:32Challenges in Accessibility
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