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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jan 21, 2020 9:04AM

To me, the big item missing from the list (and many similar discussions) is:
Educational around and exposure to:
good writing practices, including the appropriate use of document structures (tables, lists, headings, captions, etc., etc.), and
principles of accessible authoring and design (use of links, color-contrast, alt. text, simpler tables, etc, etc.)
Duff.


> Greetings,
> If you had someone, or a series of someones, interested in
> a career in accessibility, what advice might you give them to prepare or to
> ease their gaining, maintaining, or advancing a career in accessibility?
>
> * College/university degrees in computer science, software
> development, instructional design or educational technology?
> * Bootcamps designed around web development?
> * Just read the specifications!
> * I.A.A.P. is a good place to start!
> * Education around, and exposure to, training disabled people in the
> use of their technology?
> * A combination of these?
> * None of these!
> * Something else?
> I know a lot of disabled people who are unemployed or under employed,
> interested in a career in accessibility. Time and time again though, they
> are turned away from the table and provided little to no feedback in what
> specifically they can do to be better prepared to get a place at the table.
> I thought it might be a good idea to have others thoughts what it would
> take, so when I give advice to my network I can do so confident in the
> collective knowledge of experts who have, collectively, been around
> improving access for generations.
> Thanks for any thoughts!
> Respectfully,
> Michael
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