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Step by step approach for Web Accessibility Compliance
- Don’t know where to start?
- Whom to involve and how to proceed?
- Have difficulties in choosing accessibility compliance?
- Wish to train your web developers for accessibility?
These few steps will quickly guide you
1. Identify key persons in the team of IT professionals in the organization and assign him or her responsibility of web accessibility compliance projects.
2. Identify web accessibility consultant or company preferably accessibility expert with disabilities that can provide access consulting services. The individual or a company should have a proven record of experience in the area of access consulting.
3. Invite accessibility experts with disabilities and organize sensitization talk and sensitize key persons in the organization.
4. Arrange training on web accessibility for IT professionals and web developers of vendors involved in web development and maintenance if any to impart accessibility compliance skills in them.
5. Deploy accessibility consultant for access audit of organizational website and web applications as per adapted compliance.
6. Provide access audit report to web developers of vendor organization and ask them to fix the accessibility issues as per the recommendation of access audit report. Or get the issues fixed by the accessibility consultancy team by outsourcing them.
7. Provide the test link to accessibility consultant again for conformance testing and request for certification of accessibility compliance of the website.
8. Develop web accessibility policy for maintenance of accessibility compliance. Organization can involve accessibility consultants for maintenance of web accessibility compliance through annual maintenance contracts if needed.