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From: Antoinette Fennell CFIT
Date: Sep 27, 2013 1:55AM

Hello all,

The National Disability Authority's Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (Ireland) offer guidance for the procurement stage of a design project which can be found at the following link:

http://www.universaldesign.ie/useandapply/ict/itprocurementtoolkit

While this doesn't cover project management as a whole, it does provide useful information around procurement.

Kind regards,

Antoinette


Dr Antoinette Fennell
Universal Design and Digital Inclusion Researcher
Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)
NCBI: Working for People with Sight Loss

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On 26 Sep 2013, at 19:00, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
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> From: Dr Jonathan Hassell < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Date: 25 September 2013 22:49:39 GMT+01:00
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility for Project Managers - your thoughts?
> Reply-To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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>
> Hopefully this is something I can help everyone with...
>
> I know Jeff Kline well and have read his book and discussed it with him often. It is definitely a great book for anyone looking at strategic aspects of web accessibility, and it's main strength is around how to situate the person responsible for accessibility within large organisations (like IBM, which Jeff draws most of his experience from).
>
> You can find my captioned video interview with Jeff, discussing his book and comparing it with the British Standards for Accessibility Strategy BS 8878, which I was lead-author of, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3TA3WtEwc
>
> You might also be interested in BS 8878 itself - it's one of the only accessibility Standards in the world that looks at accessibility from a strategic perspective. At its heart is a 16 step process identifying the key steps in a website or app's development lifecycle which most impact its accessibility. I've used this to train many product and project managers in how to effectively manage accessibility. It goes into detail on such issues as: estimating and managing the cost-benefits and challenge of making different types of website (informational, transactional, Software as a Service/Cloud, multimedia etc.) accessible; how to capture accessibility requirements (both quality requirements and specific accessibility functionality) and place them in an Agile backlog; how to plan testing through the project; how to ensure each member of the development team knows what their responsibility is for ensuring their decisions don't unnecessarily exclude disabled or older users (I mi
ssed Denis' email but I guess this is the Accessibility Responsibility Breakdown he's after); and how project managers can handle the multiple pressures on a development project, balancing launch deadlines and resource availability with accessibility aims and risk.
>
> It's the most comprehensive guide to accessibility for project managers that I know, and I've trained organisations in countries all round the world in its application... so much so that I'm just finishing writing a book about it at the moment, which should be published in the next 6 months.
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> For now, you can find more info at: http://www.hassellinclusion.com/bs8878/
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> Check it out and let me know what you think.
>
> Best regards
>
> Jonathan
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> Prof Jonathan Hassell
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> Blog: http://hassellinclusion.com
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> From: "Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility for Project Managers - your thoughts?
> Date: 24 September 2013 21:02:00 CEST
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Reply-To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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>
> Don't have my copy of this book with me, but I do back in my office and it's worth a read. Will have to pick it up again and give it another read - it's been a while. I'm surrounded by Project Managers in the government OCIO where I work - hmmm
>
> At any rate, in an effort to add something, aside from idle ponderings, to the discussion, I'm wondering whether anyone has read this book, and whether it might have tips for project managers in it. Strategic IT Accessibility: Enabling the Organization http://www.strategicaccessibility.com/
> > From: Jennifer Sutton [ <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 07:22 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility for Project Managers - your thoughts?
>
> Greetings, all:
>
>
> This discussion has been a timely and valuable one for me.
>
> Stand-alone Checklists, without preparatory background training, make
> me nervous. I wonder if other fields look for checklists/quick fixes
> as often as some do in the accessibility field. This is more of a
> rhetorical question and isn't meant to spark debate -- not at all!
> But I wonder whether a project manager who was working with a team of
> Agile programmers would expect to be given a checklist, and that
> would be good enough.
>
> At any rate, in an effort to add something, aside from idle
> ponderings, to the discussion, I'm wondering whether anyone has read
> this book, and whether it might have tips for project managers in it.
>
> Strategic IT Accessibility: Enabling the Organization
> http://www.strategicaccessibility.com/
>
>
> Please note that I haven't read it, and I have no affiliation with
> Mr. Kline, so I'm not mentioning it in an effort to encourage
> everyone to rush out and buy the book.
>
> But it is the main accessibility-related resource I've heard of (in
> recent years, anyway) that talks specifically about strategy. If I've
> missed something else, I'd be glad to know of it.
>
> I look forward to further discussions on this subject, and I hope
> some of you (as I aim to do), will find time to help Denis with the
> Accessibility Responsibility Breakdown. That document would be *so*
> helpful in my world.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
>
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