Shop Accessible: Concrete Strategies for Procuring Accessible/Inaccessible Solutions
summary
Six concrete tactics for buying usable tech: poll the accessibility community and employees, smoke-test with keyboard and run automated scanners (WAVE SiteImprove Deque Level Access), read VPAT language carefully — look for supports with exceptions, does not support and ask why — and insist on remediation timelines (some vendors put fixes into sprints within weeks, others only add onepoint ARIA tweaks). Negotiate pricing (example: 80% discount for known gaps), use mobile apps, APIs or Zapier as workarounds, build simple Excel or small front ends while vendors fix blockers.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:57Asking community for solutions
- 8:12Evaluating with VPATs
- 18:59Negotiating remediation
- 25:21Pricing inaccessible software
- 29:33Finding usage alternatives
- 37:01DIY solutions
- 38:08Building procurement process
- 41:25Introducing Procure Access
- 47:42Q&A
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