Integrate accessibility into existing teams

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All of our teams should have an accessibility champion & an understanding of their role on accessibility

• Design
• Front-end engineering
• Back-end engineering
• DevOps
• Customer Experience / Service Design

Resources

• USA https://accessibility.digital.gov/

  • Content
  • Front End
  • Product
  • UX
  • Visual Design

• UK https://accessibility-manual.dwp.gov.uk/guidance-for-your-job-role

  • Business Analyst
  • Content Designer
  • Delivery Manager
  • Digital Performance Analyst
  • Interaction Designer
  • Product Manager
  • QA Tester
  • Software Engineer or Frontend Developer
  • User Researcher

• W3C

  • ARRM Project - Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping
  • Accessibility Responsibility Breakdown

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Aggregated list

• Accessibility Lead
  • Purple Hats or Siteimprove.
• Back-end Engineer
  • axe
• Business Analyst - UK
• Content Author - USA
  • Sa11y
• Content Designer / Information Architecture - UK
• Customer Experience / Service Design
  • WebAim's WAVE Toolbar
• Delivery Manager - UK
  • WebAim's WAVE Toolbar
• DevOps
  • pa11y
• Digital Performance Analyst - UK
• Front End Engineer - USA
  • Consider using https://accessibilityinsights.io/
• Interaction Designer - UK
• Product Manager - USA & UK
  • WebAim's WAVE Toolbar
• Procurement Manager
  • WebAim's WAVE Toolbar
• QA Tester - UK
  • Purple Hats or Siteimprove.
• User Researcher - UK
  • WebAim's WAVE Toolbar
• UX - USA
• Visual Design - USA
  • Open source color contrast tools

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Added information to https://github.com/CivicActions/accessibility/blob/main/_playbook/roles.md