From Projects to Programs: Accessibility in Digital Strategy
summary
Organizations must treat accessibility as a sustained program not a one-off project, because pandemic-era digitization (March 2020) exposes gaps when a single unit buys or owns an employee management system with inaccessible PDFs or integrations. Practical moves include include accessibility in RFP/RFI language, fold accessibility bugs into the same bug backlog, train staff and count people trained, and use procurement decisions as an indicator of organizational will. Start small—brown-bag training, ERGs, vendor contract renewals—and measure change with policies, job descriptions, and periodic vendor accessibility commitments.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:11Different Scales
- 2:03Accessibility?
- 4:01Case Study (Of Sorts)
- 5:54Example: Employee Management System
- 6:55Product Owner
- 8:23Content Creator
- 9:08Influencers
- 12:08Lots of Influences
- 12:59Goal: Accessibility as a Program
- 13:25Can Be a Long Bridge
- 15:28Project Managers
- 25:36Keys to Organizational Adoption of Accessibility
- 31:41Most Critical: Start
- 33:28Recap
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