Alt text for articles need to be written and edited by the newsroom. Images should have different alternative text depending on the context of the use.
Document everything that comes up as you learn them.
Curb-cut effect
Even if we don’t have users with disabilities, our users are not static, and we shouldn’t want to exclude even one person from our content.
Don’t take much responsibility of something outside your job duties until your company recognizes it as a job duty. Burnout is very real in the accessibility space.
Accessibility concerns come from user complaints. Accessibility Slack channel, as well as bi-weekly meetings of an accessibility working group. Develop a source of truth for accessibility to address and document issues.
Meetings are static if you are meeting with the same people, it is easy and doesn’t make much progress. Create a mailing list perhaps. Create special events, internally or externally. Don’t take advantage of external speakers — they should be collaborative efforts.
Define accessibility duties as part of the job so it is not considered extra work. Don’t come to accessibility as an advocate. It should be posed through problems and solutions.
Find allies: legal, working groups, readers and bosses.
Accessibility should be split by helping others, auditing, education and other parts should be fun (research and development), presenting content in different ways, additive perspective to make content more accessible. How can election results be presented in a tabular form? What CMS features and other tools can be implemented such that accessibility issues are more apparent?