Web and Software Frontend Developer. Used to work in Full-stack JavaScript.Been at this for a few years now, and think I now understand my specific domain pretty well. Still a lot to learn though.
Location
Manchester, UK
Education
Web Systems Design BSc at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
One thing that helped was showing evidence of the benefits using stats and figures
Another was the fact that good accessibility is factored into placement in most search engines, as an accessible website is also easier for a search engine to crawl, which when we informed marketing about this, suddenly accessibility became a huge priority.
Sometimes the easiest way to get the developers to focus on thing is to get pressure from higher-up folks, and giving evidence of the benefits is one way to do so.
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Thanks @georgewl! Totally agree that providing evidence is crucial here. I think I will work on this. Do you have any specific resources about the benefits that you could reference?
Web and Software Frontend Developer. Used to work in Full-stack JavaScript.Been at this for a few years now, and think I now understand my specific domain pretty well. Still a lot to learn though.
Location
Manchester, UK
Education
Web Systems Design BSc at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Web AIM are one of the forefront of web accessibility, most known for their accessibility testing tool WAVE (Web Accessibility Visual Evaluation tool).
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One thing that helped was showing evidence of the benefits using stats and figures
Another was the fact that good accessibility is factored into placement in most search engines, as an accessible website is also easier for a search engine to crawl, which when we informed marketing about this, suddenly accessibility became a huge priority.
Sometimes the easiest way to get the developers to focus on thing is to get pressure from higher-up folks, and giving evidence of the benefits is one way to do so.
Thanks @georgewl! Totally agree that providing evidence is crucial here. I think I will work on this. Do you have any specific resources about the benefits that you could reference?
webaim.org/blog/web-accessibility-...
Web AIM are one of the forefront of web accessibility, most known for their accessibility testing tool WAVE (Web Accessibility Visual Evaluation tool).