Once people are aware of digital accessibility, the biggest roadblocks are lack of knowledge and experience, and organizations who are unwilling to dedicate time to it without a solid business case.

We’ll walk through quick, easy and meaningful fixes that you can make in five minutes or less, along with why these are crucial accessibility issues, and how you can approach your leaders about prioritizing accessibility every day.

I’ve been interested in accessibility for years, but for many years at my organization it was not considered a priority, if it was considered at all. Because accessibility is so important to me, I figured out little changes I could make during the normal course of my work, like adding in alt text where it was missing or properly associating form labels with their controls.

In this way I slowly improved the accessibility of our products without making it a major issue, and because I did keep bringing it up and sharing these little fixes with my team mates, accessibility eventually became a priority and one of the pillars of our Product team at Neovation.

I'd like to share my knowledge and experience to help other developers, designers, product managers etc start their own accessibility journey.