Article 6G7TW Accessibility training will not save you

Accessibility training will not save you

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Thom Holwerda
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I cannot pinpoint the source of this misconception, it could have been a vendor, or long-lost blog post, or one of the many webinars I attended in my early days as a program lead. Regardless of the source, I operated under the wild misconception that all I needed to do was train my teams to do accessibility. Developers, QAs, designers, all they needed was training!

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This model does not work. Especially for an organization with multiple products, multiple platforms, and multiple development teams.

Accessibility is so much more complicated than can be summarised in a mere training. It requires experts, capable programmers, users who actually require said accessbility, and so much more. It's also an ongoing process - it's not a static train once, use everywhere" kind of deal.

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