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From: Abby Kingman
Date: Apr 1, 2019 9:22AM

I am not a developer but am poking my way through the Deque curriculum for
CPACC and WAS. I am finding very helpful - it is a very well organized
curriculum, which makes it easier for me to connect pieces together. I'm
not sure how often it is updated. I like it so much I pitched the idea of
having everyone in my company go through at least the CPACC curriculum. I'm
finding that it's very hard to change culture and thinking within a
distributed organization all by myself. Everyone else is already busy and
nobody follows and reads any of the information links I send. My company is
a web development firm, and I think developers often tend to think a11y is
a technical problem they can solve or a content problem that they don't
need to worry about. It's hard to explain to people that it's actually
about having a different way of thinking about what we do. If everyone was
told to just spend two hours a week to work through this curriculum I think
that would be a great help, but unfortunately my idea was dismissed.

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Abby Kingman, CPACC

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