W3C ARRM: A Ready-made Accessibility Roles & Responsibilities Map for Developers
Incorporating accessibility into your code and designs? Make it easy. The W3C has released the Accessibility Roles and Responsibility Mapping (ARRM) framework for WCAG 2.2.
ARRM breaks down the WCAG success criteria list into individual, plain-language tasks ("checkpoints") for Front-end Developers, UX and Visual Designers and Content Authors to do.
It help teams identify the primary, secondary and contributor owners of web accessibility requirements and best practices by role. It's an official, ready-made, go-to resource your team can start using tomorrow.
Join me, a former UX Designer-turned-Accessibility Strategist, as I host a fun, interactive workshop to:
1) introduce the ARRM Checkpoint List and identify the primary, secondary and contributor responsibilities for Front-end Developers (and the others).
2) share examples of the ARRM checkpoints and how a Primary owner might work with a Secondary owner to ensure an accessibility fix gets done.
3) show you how to conduct the "Role-based Decision Tree" exercise (together or in teams), if an accessibility issue needs to be fixed, but there's no owner yet. Together we'll review some Issue examples, how to fix them, prioritize the fixes and who should own it (primary, secondary, contributor). I'll provide an ARRM Spreadsheet Template to take away.
Build capacity, ownership and clarity about who's doing what, when and how. Build a cultural comfort level around accessibility and inclusive design. Meet the WCAG 2.2 guidelines.
Jennifer Chadwick, CPACC is an award-winning senior digital accessibility strategist and coach. She works in Canada, UK, Europe and US. Jennifer works closely with organizations understand the needs of users with disabilities and translates this into tasks that result in inclusive, delightful user experiences. She develops action plans for product design, customer service, marketing, HR and procurement.
Jennifer has spoken at CSUN, AccessU, University of Toronto and the United Nations COSP11 and COSP15. She co-chairs the W3C Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) Community Group and contributed to the standards WCAG Silver 3.0 and the Accessibility Conformance Testing Rules (ACT 1.0).