How Continuous Accessibility Can Boost Your Accessibility Maturity

Important note for in-person attendees

This event will be online and in-person. The speaker and live stream starts at 7:30 pm ET. In-person attendees may arrive as early as 7 pm ET.

Description
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.

There will be time for your questions.

Presenter bio
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.

Accessibility
The presentation will have human captions [CC], not automatic captions. Please let us know about accessibility requirements two weeks before the event.

There will be audio descriptions and an ASL interpreter.

Livestream
View on YouTube

Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG.

Location details
The event is on the 4th floor. Everyone must be accompanied to the event on the 4th floor. Because everyone needs to be escorted, please arrive early or on time. When you enter the ground floor, ask for Ben Ogilvie from A11yNYC to get elevator access.

Attendees can enter on the third floor and go up the staircase, or request accommodation to go directly to the 4th floor. Thanks to Ben Ogilvie for making this possible! Let us know if you're coming!

The building is near several transit stops:

6 train

• Spring Street (non-accessible stop): 100 feet
• Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.4 miles

NQRW trains

• Prince Street (non-accessible stop): 0.2 miles
• Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.3 miles

M1 / M55 Bus lines

• Broadway/Spring Street stop: 500 feet

Cabs and rideshares can let passengers out right near the building entrance

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. Want to be a sponsor? Contact [email protected]