1、An Accessibility Policy 10 Years Later,Lucy GrecoUC Berkeley Accessibility Evangelist,In the beginning,A group of people from all the UC campuses wanted to find a way to create a culture of accessibility!Dream big and then come down to earthYou can only include what people will let youAnd so began t
2、he years of lessons learned,What we wanted,Have a standard to help people understand what was neededAssign people to work on accessibilityProvide guidance on purchasing and web development,Chose W3C-AACampuses did not want a mandate to hire any staff,they wanted to make those decisions on their ownP
3、eople resisted any effort to have a prescriptive policy,What we got,What we did once we had a Policy,A policy is critical to even begin an accessibility initiativeHow can people do what the policy asked forCreate a lot of supporting materialsPurchasing checklist and then rewriting the checklistCreat
4、e How to cheat sheets Finding an accessibility testing toolTeach people how to create accessibilityFind more and more trainingBring the community together to learn again and again,Learn from what happened,What questions did people ask?Where are people failing?How about any resource gaps?,In the mean
5、time,back in the real world,Major lawsuits and consent decrees happen around the countryA variety of good(and bad)decisions being madePublic outcry when accessibility is used as a reason to remove contentOffice for Civil Rights(OCR)investigationsDept.of Justice(DOJ)consent decrees making more work t
6、han ever before,and changing the focusBuilding websites and taking them down,So,time to revisit the policy,Set a goal,what do you want this new version to doWho should write the new version of this?And so it begins!,The story of our new policy,We started meeting every two weeksWe decided very quickl