Ongoing Accessibility Strategy
Ensuring websites and applications remain accessible creates efficiency, reduces costs, and is the most effective way to mitigate risk. Maturing your organization’s capability to deliver accessible digital assets takes time and careful planning. It is achieved through incremental progress along a carefully crafted roadmap.
The good news is that there are immediate actions that will significantly move the needle:
- Ongoing monitoring of websites and applications
- Access to knowledgebase
- Role-based education
- Tooling
- Expert Consulting
To continue to see improvement in ROI and risk mitigation, many organizations implement a strategic road map based on a maturity model like the W3C Accessibility Maturity Model (W3C AMM). Inclusion Impact Accessibility’s founder, Mark Miller, is an invited expert for the W3C AMM, and continues to work on its development.
The W3C AMM is one of many models that may be right to help your organization mature its accessibility practice. Sometimes, implementing parts of a model in strategic areas of the organization is the way to start. The activity is scalable and strategic. Improvement at any level will help your organization realize benefit from accessibility.
See The W3C Accessibility Maturity Model Explained blog post for details on the W3C AMM.