Roles and responsibilities for accessibility

Who doesn't love RACIs? When it comes to ensuring accessibility of your products, almost all roles in the team can contribute something.

The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative published a mapping of roles and responsibilities to WCAG Success Criteria.

It's still a “draft”, and feedback is welcomed, but it's been worked on for many years.

They've included:

6 role groups: Business, Author (Content), Design, Development, Testing, Admin
a mapping to WCAG Success Criteria of who is primarily or secondarily responsible, and who can contribute
what can everyone do? A list of tasks and who can do them
a decision tree for defining your own responsibility mapping

More info on the project and its aims:
Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 79 events, most recently in Bristol, UK.

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