Creating accessibility systems to fix accessibility issues

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January 24, 2025 by Devon Persing

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When we first start to tackle accessibility work, it usually feels very urgent. It often happens because of a lawsuit, a legal ruling, or an industry trend. Teams get served a long list of accessibility issues, with or without guidance on how to fix them. And if they do fix the issues, what happens next? Do they wait for the next audit and do it all again?

This urgency tends to make accessibility work reactive instead of proactive. It’s suddenly an emergency—even if it’s actually been a problem forever.

This emergency approach isn’t sustainable for anyone, including accessibility specialists, product teams, and organizations as a whole. One common refrain to make this work easier is to start from scratch, when a new product is in development. But, this ideal state isn’t realistic for [...]

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