Vernon’s Reviews > The Accessibility Operations Guidebook: To making accessibility work more sustainable > Status Update

“there are no clear expectations or boundaries for accessibility practitioners.”

“To do sustainable work in the accessibility field, we need to constantly make choices to be anti-ableist.”

A familiar detrimental sense of urgency:
“We don’t have time to make this product accessible. That takes a lot of work, and this is only an MVP. We’ll do it later.”

“I think it is really hard-to-impossible to actually grow institutional knowledge when your ratio is that skewed, unless you have some people who are really good at knowledge management and would be able to help.”

“an organization that is more mature will practice continuous integration, that is, it will make processes more efficient and effective on a continual basis.”

Actively share knowledge and establish trust with colleagues, managers, and leadership, over time and through small, incremental changes.

“A large part of accessibility work is fighting against the ingrained culture that devalues it. This is the case even if accessibility is on paper as part of an organization’s values.”

“Share your organization’s component library documentation, which includes a whole overview of accessibility and documentation for individual components.”

“This is the difference between accessibility as compliance and accessibility as usability, where a compliant product may pass automated and manual testing with flying colors but fall short for actual disabled users.”

“What we need is for non-experts to get better at integrating accessibility information and literacy into their work.”