The A11y team at Intuit hosted a Meetup at Intuit HQ in Mountain View to have an open discussion around creating a community-driven approach to raise accessibility awareness within organizations locally and globally.

1. A Community-driven Journey
Feb 5, 2019
(Happy Lunar New Year!)

2. Panelists
Ace Vu Ted Drake Louise Mintun Sagar Barbhaya Yvonne So

3. What is the Intuit A11y team?

4. Intuit A11y team
Ace Vu
Ted Drake
Louise Mintun
Sagar Barbhaya
Steven ChenYvonne So
Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum
Central team
Product /
location lead
Advocate &
champion
Poonam
Tathavadkar
Gary FranzSundip
Sharma
Joe Preston Anjali Desai PJ Nidecker
+

5. How do you contribute as
an individual?

6. Louise — content design
Design System

7. Sagar — product development
● Accessibility automation testing
● Responsible for creating libraries with Intuit's standard
configuration
● Accessibility lead for Desktop products
(TurboTax,Lacerte,Quickbooks)
● Provide technical guidance to teams and help find solutions
● Helped with Developer Productivity and Shift left Journey!!

8. Yvonne — product design
Mobile design guidelines Empathy and usability workshops Productivity tools

9. How does Intuit
prioritize accessibility?

10. Learning Network

11. Accessibility studio

12. From early stage
through the process

13. How did Intuit
raise awareness?

14. Make __ accessible

15. Field trip

16. Accessibility summit

17. How did Intuit meet the demand
for knowledge at scale?

18. Accessibility champions
champions
179
174 level 1
4 level 2
1 level 3
27
29 Edmonton
Bangalore
7 Mississauga
9 London
4 Israel103 USA

19. Design champion training

20. Cheat sheets

21. How can we
measure success?

22. Frequent pulse checks
● Product and component audit
● Design audit
● Automate audit and report dashboard
● “Voice of the customer” feedback
● Accessibility Champions surveys

23. Partnership with Aira
Last October, Intuit and Aira
teamed up to help blind and
low-vision entrepreneurs
complete business tasks.
https://aira.io/intuit

24. Automation tool

25. Culture change
Learning about assistive technologies Lean research and review sessions New brand + design system

26. Open discussion
Let’s ask questions

27. Some questions to get us started
What didn’t work?
How do you get your accessibility bugs prioritized in comparison
to new features?
How do you drive culture change in your organization?
What is the return on investment for accessibility?
What’s next?

28. Thank you
Email us: accessibility-feedback@intuit.com
More information: designsystem.quickbooks.com/accessibility