How Continuous Accessibility Can Boost Your Accessibility Maturity - Andrew Hedges

* Accessibility NYC Meetup - November 19 2024 - How Continuous Accessibility Can Boost Your Accessibility Maturity - Andrew Hedges

TRANSCRIPT
https://isoc.live/a11ynyc/a11ynyc_nov_2024.txt (TXT)
https://archive.org/download/a11ynyc1124/a11ynyc1124_TRANSCRIPT.pdf (PDF)

AUDIO DESCRIBED LIVESTREAM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUP-qdaoIA

Accessibility maturity models help organizations track progress across their accessibility programs. Automated tooling (sometimes called Continuous Accessibility) is a proven way to boost software quality at scale. What options exist to apply Continuous Accessibility concepts to make progress against today’s accessibility maturity models?

The landscape of software accessibility quality tooling automation is changing rapidly. For organizations working to improve outcomes by evaluating progress against one of the several available accessibility maturity models, it can be confusing to understand how automated tools map to the dimensions measured by the models.

At the end of this talk, you’ll understand the following:

* What Accessibility Maturity Models are and how they’re helpful.
* The concept of Continuous Accessibility and how it can improve outcomes.
* How Continuous Accessibility can contribute to advancing your organization’s accessibility maturity.
Process gets a bad rap. When employed effectively, solid processes are what allow organizations to repeatedly achieve desired outcomes. Web accessibility is no different. Join this talk to learn about the intersection of good processes and automated tooling.

PRESENTER
Andrew Hedges is the COO and co-founder of Assistiv Labs, an accessibility tooling company serving customers including Slack, Zendesk, and ServiceNow. A longtime advocate for web accessibility and inclusive design, Andrew has worked as a web developer and engineering leader for over 25 years including stints at Apple, Digg, Disney, and Zapier. After living around the U.S. and New Zealand, he again lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon with his partner Valerie.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhedges/

MEETUP
https://www.meetup.com/a11ynyc/events/303239270/

ACCESSIBILITY
ASL and EN/ES/JA closed captions are available.

LIVESTREAM
Provided by Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG.

ACCREDITATION
All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).

SPONSORS
Thanks to AKQA, Deque, Evinced, Equal Entry, and Fable for sponsoring.

ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY NYC
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