Re: Organisational factors of accessible websites

Hi Wilco Fiers,

Thanks for sharing it. I'm thinking about accessibility a few months ago
and that paper makes me think more and more (I've still only read some
chapters).

I love theses sentences:

- "*Developing awareness and knowledge*"

- "*The minister proposes an approach that is less focused on testing
conformance at the end of the process and one that is more focused on the
implementation process as a whole*."

Recently, I made a talk about accessibility. I needed to talk about what
I'd learnt after making a lot of mistakes, because of a lack of knowledge.
I had a lack of empathy, because of a lack of information/knowledge.

I think those sentences from the paper are a good summary for me:

- At the end of the talk, a person told me: "You made accessibility
accessible. I wasn't aware of a lot of things.". Me neither. Although I
think it's still necessary more effort to make documentation
accessible/easy.

- Accessibility, security, testing, ... cannot be only at the end of the
process. We need continuous feedback during the whole development process.

Thanks again for sharing that paper. I'll continue reading it.

Best regards,
Raquel

On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 22:40, Wilco Fiers <wilco.fiers@deque.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> A few days ago Eric Velleman published his thesis paper under the title:
> The Implementation of Web Accessibility Standards by Dutch Municipalities.
> Factors of Resistance and Support.
>
> I thought it was a very interesting read, and figured many people on this
> list might do too. It's focused on Dutch municipality websites, but the
> ideas and model are broadly applicable. Most interesting about it is that
> it looks at organisational indicators, rather than technical ones to figure
> out which are effective measures to improve web accessibility
>
> You can get the paper as a PDF here:
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329509854_The_Implementation_of_Web_Accessibility_Standards_by_Dutch_Municipalities_Factors_of_Resistance_and_Support
>
> --
> *Wilco Fiers*
>