Accessibility

Digital accessibility responsibility breakdown

Accessibility is everyone's responsibility

understanding the importance and raising awareness of accessibilitity across the organization
prioritizing accessibility into all City's digital spaces
ensuring that accessibilty is considered at the beginning of each project to alleviate costly work arounds and/or inferior products
continually valuating the corporate digitals spaces across all the products' life cycles

Role(s)	Responsibility
Product sponsors Product owners Leaders	ensuring that products meet The City's required level of accessibility assuming risks for inaccessible products
Project managers	ensuring accessibility process (timelines and resources) are incorporated into a project plan making certain that The City’s accessibility policy is incorporated within the procurement processes
UX architects Digital designers	ensuring accessibility is incorporated into user interface and interaction designs some areas of focus are: content structure, headings and labels consistent navigation and identification colour options and combinations usable interactive components
Developers	ensuring all digital spaces are built in a way that allow all users to easily access and complete online transactions independent of their specific needs or technology used some of the coding techniques are: semantic HTML Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) for functionality that cannot be supported by standard HTML
Content authors	ensuring accessibility is followed when producing content some areas of focus are: descriptive and relevant ALT attributes, link texts, headings, labels, etc avoiding reliance on using sensory characteristics (i.e. shape,, visual location, etc) ensuring captions are available for videos using plain language
Accessibility QA specialists	testing for and tracking accessibility across the corporate digital spaces building awareness / educating organization about accessibility

Digital production chain phases
Success criteria (Level)	Architecture	Interaction design	Graphics design	Content	Front-end development	Back-end development	Quality control
1.1.1 (A)				responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
1.2.1 (A)				responsible	responsible		responsible
1.2.2 (A)				responsible	responsible		responsible
1.2.3 (A)				responsible	responsible		responsible
1.2.4 (AA)					responsible		responsible
1.2.5 (AA)				responsible	responsible		responsible
1.3.1 (A)	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
1.3.2 (A)					responsible	responsible	responsible
1.3.3 (A)		responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible		responsible
1.4.1 (A)		responsible	responsible		responsible		responsible
1.4.2 (A)		responsible	responsible		responsible		responsible
1.4.3 (AA)			responsible		responsible		responsible
1.4.4 (AA)		responsible	responsible		responsible		responsible
1.4.5 (AA)			responsible		responsible		responsible
2.1.1 (A)		responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
2.1.2 (A)		responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
2.2.1 (A)		responsible			responsible	responsible	responsible
2.2.2 (A)		responsible	responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
2.3.1 (A)		responsible	responsible		responsible		responsible
2.4.1 (A)			responsible		responsible		responsible
2.4.2 (A)	responsible			responsible	responsible		responsible
2.4.3 (A)					responsible	responsible	responsible
2.4.4 (A)		responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
2.4.5 (AA)	responsible	responsible	responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
2.4.6 (AA)	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
2.4.7 (AA)			responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
3.1.1 (A)					responsible		responsible
3.1.2 (AA)	responsible			responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
3.2.1 (A)		responsible	responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
3.2.2 (A)		responsible			responsible	responsible	responsible
3.2.3 (AA)		responsible	responsible		responsible		responsible
3.2.4 (AA)		responsible	responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
3.3.1 (A)		responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible	responsible
3.3.2 (A)		responsible	responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
3.3.3 (AA)		responsible	responsible		responsible	responsible	responsible
3.3.4 (AA)		responsible			responsible	responsible	responsible
4.1.1 (A)					responsible	responsible	responsible
4.1.2 (A)		responsible			responsible	responsible	responsible
38	5	22	21	14	38	22	38