Learn how to strategize, evangelize, and help your organization to reach accessibility compliance. The outline of this presentation by itself is a battle plan for your success at this mission!
Are you the single person responsible to establish accessibility compliance in your company? If so, this presentation is the blueprint you're looking for! Learn about the people, process, and the information you need to lead this major effort and to be successful!
Are You Making These 7 'Testing Metric' Mistakes? Webinar - Mark Bentsen, Phi...XBOSoft
Find out if you're making these common testing metric mistakes and what to do if you are. In this hour-long XBOSoft webinar, ARGO Data's Quality Assurance Manager will teach you how to improve your metrics and build better software testing and QA teams.
Challenges & Successes of Agile Implementation Webinar with BlackLine - XBOSoftXBOSoft
In this hour-long webinar, BlackLine's Director of Software Development Greg Burns and Scrum Master and Agile Coach Ron Ben Yosef discuss the company's agile conversion experience -- the challenges, successes, and benefits gained from implementation.
Webvirtue is a leading offshore software development company based in India specialized in ecommerce software development, custom software development, web software development and more. For more details visit here http://www.webvirtue.com/software-development.php
Foundations of a Successful Developer Platform - DeveloperWeek 2015Kamyar Mohager
A talk presented at DeveloperWeek 2015 focused on the foundational areas of what make a developer platform successful, as well as best practices in areas of platform strategy, API design, and monitoring/operability. Primarily showcased some of the lessons learned as we scaled the LinkedIn platform to help illustrate those best practices.
Leveraging platforms to achieve speed at scale- Tom Varsavsky (ThoughtWorks L...Thoughtworks
Tom shares the story behind the development of Colab, a branded platform of technology components that can be shared across the business. Treating this platform as a product helps executives and product managers, as well as developers, understand and embrace the REA technology strategy.
Are you the single person responsible to establish accessibility compliance in your company? If so, this presentation is the blueprint you're looking for! Learn about the people, process, and the information you need to lead this major effort and to be successful!
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Find out if you're making these common testing metric mistakes and what to do if you are. In this hour-long XBOSoft webinar, ARGO Data's Quality Assurance Manager will teach you how to improve your metrics and build better software testing and QA teams.
Challenges & Successes of Agile Implementation Webinar with BlackLine - XBOSoftXBOSoft
In this hour-long webinar, BlackLine's Director of Software Development Greg Burns and Scrum Master and Agile Coach Ron Ben Yosef discuss the company's agile conversion experience -- the challenges, successes, and benefits gained from implementation.
Webvirtue is a leading offshore software development company based in India specialized in ecommerce software development, custom software development, web software development and more. For more details visit here http://www.webvirtue.com/software-development.php
Foundations of a Successful Developer Platform - DeveloperWeek 2015Kamyar Mohager
A talk presented at DeveloperWeek 2015 focused on the foundational areas of what make a developer platform successful, as well as best practices in areas of platform strategy, API design, and monitoring/operability. Primarily showcased some of the lessons learned as we scaled the LinkedIn platform to help illustrate those best practices.
Leveraging platforms to achieve speed at scale- Tom Varsavsky (ThoughtWorks L...Thoughtworks
Tom shares the story behind the development of Colab, a branded platform of technology components that can be shared across the business. Treating this platform as a product helps executives and product managers, as well as developers, understand and embrace the REA technology strategy.
NORCAT Entrepreneurship 101 - "Product Development" featuring Dave Peres & Ro...NORCAT
Dave Peres and Rob Patterson (co-owners, Minalytix) discuss what product development is, the typical development process, development models and their experiences when building their company.
The pursuit for the perfect synchrony between software development and IT operations is still ongoing, and striking the balance won’t happen any time soon. Understand and address these 5 common DevOps challenges to achieve a higher- functioning and collaborative organization.
Data management solutions always look good “on paper”. When it's just a matter of proposals and ROI projections on gleaming white stock, the “abstract” seems perfect. It's only when you go live, and real people get involved that things can get messy. If you don't have a clear, strategic implementation plan in place, who knows what could happen.
You need a plan. And Synergis has a proven plan. During this webcast, you’ll discover...
• Why creating alignment and generating positive buzz are essential to success
• What 6 critical steps must be followed to insure successful implementation
• Which best practices will make you a hero
• The most common pitfalls that impact ROI
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To point and click our way through a SharePoint installation is relatively easy, but what about all the other 'stuff' that we might not have considered? These slides are from Andy Talbot's MetaVis webinar for a detailed discussion on building SharePoint platforms fit for enterprise customers.
In this webinar, Andy talked about some of the common challenges that can take some enterprises by surprise, factors that we should have planned for, and common failure points. Attendees should have benefited from this discussion regardless if they were starting out with their deployment, or already in production.
Why Isn't Clean Coding Working For My TeamRob Curry
Teams fail to achieve the full benefit of the "clean code" approach when they focus on the code and neglect the Agile process. The full title of Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" book is "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship". This talk presents an depth look at necessary relationship between Clean Code software craftsmanship and the Agile methodology, identifies common scenarios and situations where teams may fall short of recognizing and respecting that relationship, and provides practical recommendations for achieving a fully integrated process of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
Robert Martin's book "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" had a huge positive impact on software development teams that adopted his approach to "Agile Software Craftsmanship". But teams sometimes fail to achieve the full benefit of the "clean code" approach because they focus on the code and neglect the Agile process.
It's easy to do: the book provides such clear, practical advice on how to write code that is easier to maintain, more reliable, and less error prone that developers adopt those techniques to great effect and fail to pursue and adopt the harder, agile process recommendations from the book. This is further complicated by the fact that there is now a Software Craftsmanship Manifesto that is separate from the Agile Manifesto.
So, how does using selected clean code techniques break the Agile process defined in the the book? What is the relationship between the two that Uncle Bob wanted us to understand and adopt in toto? Where do we go wrong? Are there some work environment or business driven scenarios that are more likely to break the relationship?
This presentation addresses those questions and more by an taking an in depth look at necessary relationship between Clean Code software craftsmanship and the Agile methodology, identifies common scenarios and situations where teams may fall short of recognizing and respecting that relationship, and provides practical recommendations for achieving a fully integrated process of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
How a PDO Can Help Get You to Market FasterCodeScience
This was presented at Dreamforce 2015. Do you need help with your Salesforce app? When do you reach out for guidance and support. A Product Development Outsourcer (PDO) can help you navigate the waters of building and publishing an app on the AppExchange. Learn about the value proposition of partnering with a Product Development Outsourcer, getting your app through security review and best practices of AppExchange development. Also, find out how all this goodness fits into the world of SI. #DF15Partners
Geek Sync I Agile Data Management vs. Agile Data ModelingIDERA Software
You can watch the replay for this Geek Sync webcast in the IDERA Resource Center: http://ow.ly/Er0q50A5o7q
Join IDERA and Joseph Maggi while he discusses some of the more heated debates in the data modeling world centered around the concept of agile data modeling. Much of this debate has its roots in a misunderstanding or at least conflicting views on what Agile is in the first place. Some view agile data modeling as a haphazard approach to database “design” while others view it as a way to get applications developed more quickly and efficiently. This session will explore the merits of both sides of the argument and will discuss the technical manifestations of Agile (namely Scrum and Kanban) and where data modeling fits within these agile methodologies.
Product Management With an Offshore Team by Amazon Product LeaderProduct School
Takeaways:
- How to vet and hire an offshore team
- Cultural implications and how to operate with empathy
- Managing for success and releasing shipping products on time.
Top tips for a successful traceability system implemention paula peterson 2015Paula Peterson
Learn top tips gathered from almost 20 years of helping companies successfully implement real-time traceability solutions such as Warehouse Management (WMS), Packaging Execution (PES), Inventory Management, and Work In Process (WIP) Tracking, both RFID and Barcode.
Make Extremes Mainstream: The Power of Inclusive DesignSeda Maurer
A revised version of the original presentation, this version clarifies the specific needs to meet compliance with Digital Accessibility requirements. This presentation also offers solutions such as journey maps, and testing designs and products with people with disability to achieve the Digital Accessibility for all users.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional Quotient (EQ = measuring the EI) is proving itself to be a critical factor in our success in our personal and professional lives. This is an introduction to what EI/EQ is and how to increase it. You will also learn how the underlying factor for increased EI and EQ is Mindfulness! Mindfulness actually enriches one's life and subsequently increases the practitioners' health, happiness, and success!
NORCAT Entrepreneurship 101 - "Product Development" featuring Dave Peres & Ro...NORCAT
Dave Peres and Rob Patterson (co-owners, Minalytix) discuss what product development is, the typical development process, development models and their experiences when building their company.
The pursuit for the perfect synchrony between software development and IT operations is still ongoing, and striking the balance won’t happen any time soon. Understand and address these 5 common DevOps challenges to achieve a higher- functioning and collaborative organization.
Data management solutions always look good “on paper”. When it's just a matter of proposals and ROI projections on gleaming white stock, the “abstract” seems perfect. It's only when you go live, and real people get involved that things can get messy. If you don't have a clear, strategic implementation plan in place, who knows what could happen.
You need a plan. And Synergis has a proven plan. During this webcast, you’ll discover...
• Why creating alignment and generating positive buzz are essential to success
• What 6 critical steps must be followed to insure successful implementation
• Which best practices will make you a hero
• The most common pitfalls that impact ROI
Building SharePoint Enterprise Platforms - Off the beaten pathAndy Talbot
To point and click our way through a SharePoint installation is relatively easy, but what about all the other 'stuff' that we might not have considered? These slides are from Andy Talbot's MetaVis webinar for a detailed discussion on building SharePoint platforms fit for enterprise customers.
In this webinar, Andy talked about some of the common challenges that can take some enterprises by surprise, factors that we should have planned for, and common failure points. Attendees should have benefited from this discussion regardless if they were starting out with their deployment, or already in production.
Why Isn't Clean Coding Working For My TeamRob Curry
Teams fail to achieve the full benefit of the "clean code" approach when they focus on the code and neglect the Agile process. The full title of Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" book is "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship". This talk presents an depth look at necessary relationship between Clean Code software craftsmanship and the Agile methodology, identifies common scenarios and situations where teams may fall short of recognizing and respecting that relationship, and provides practical recommendations for achieving a fully integrated process of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
Robert Martin's book "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" had a huge positive impact on software development teams that adopted his approach to "Agile Software Craftsmanship". But teams sometimes fail to achieve the full benefit of the "clean code" approach because they focus on the code and neglect the Agile process.
It's easy to do: the book provides such clear, practical advice on how to write code that is easier to maintain, more reliable, and less error prone that developers adopt those techniques to great effect and fail to pursue and adopt the harder, agile process recommendations from the book. This is further complicated by the fact that there is now a Software Craftsmanship Manifesto that is separate from the Agile Manifesto.
So, how does using selected clean code techniques break the Agile process defined in the the book? What is the relationship between the two that Uncle Bob wanted us to understand and adopt in toto? Where do we go wrong? Are there some work environment or business driven scenarios that are more likely to break the relationship?
This presentation addresses those questions and more by an taking an in depth look at necessary relationship between Clean Code software craftsmanship and the Agile methodology, identifies common scenarios and situations where teams may fall short of recognizing and respecting that relationship, and provides practical recommendations for achieving a fully integrated process of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
How a PDO Can Help Get You to Market FasterCodeScience
This was presented at Dreamforce 2015. Do you need help with your Salesforce app? When do you reach out for guidance and support. A Product Development Outsourcer (PDO) can help you navigate the waters of building and publishing an app on the AppExchange. Learn about the value proposition of partnering with a Product Development Outsourcer, getting your app through security review and best practices of AppExchange development. Also, find out how all this goodness fits into the world of SI. #DF15Partners
Geek Sync I Agile Data Management vs. Agile Data ModelingIDERA Software
You can watch the replay for this Geek Sync webcast in the IDERA Resource Center: http://ow.ly/Er0q50A5o7q
Join IDERA and Joseph Maggi while he discusses some of the more heated debates in the data modeling world centered around the concept of agile data modeling. Much of this debate has its roots in a misunderstanding or at least conflicting views on what Agile is in the first place. Some view agile data modeling as a haphazard approach to database “design” while others view it as a way to get applications developed more quickly and efficiently. This session will explore the merits of both sides of the argument and will discuss the technical manifestations of Agile (namely Scrum and Kanban) and where data modeling fits within these agile methodologies.
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Takeaways:
- How to vet and hire an offshore team
- Cultural implications and how to operate with empathy
- Managing for success and releasing shipping products on time.
Top tips for a successful traceability system implemention paula peterson 2015Paula Peterson
Learn top tips gathered from almost 20 years of helping companies successfully implement real-time traceability solutions such as Warehouse Management (WMS), Packaging Execution (PES), Inventory Management, and Work In Process (WIP) Tracking, both RFID and Barcode.
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Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional Quotient (EQ = measuring the EI) is proving itself to be a critical factor in our success in our personal and professional lives. This is an introduction to what EI/EQ is and how to increase it. You will also learn how the underlying factor for increased EI and EQ is Mindfulness! Mindfulness actually enriches one's life and subsequently increases the practitioners' health, happiness, and success!
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Two complementary views (from management and technical track) present a deep dive of three key areas - presentation, skills, and networking - that contribute to one's career success. What are the better practices and how can one take charge of their own career by raising their own awareness. Specific steps are presented on how to become mindful and how to increase one's awareness and emotional intelligence level.
Designing with Empathy for All AbilitiesSeda Maurer
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The presentation teaches what is Dyslexia and Dyscalculia are, two common cognitive issues that 20 percent of the population have. It presents a comprehensive research on these topics as well as how to design for people with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia. It also presents opportunities for more specified research, and creating personas for people with these different abilities.
This presentation introduces technology and the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of it. How assistive technology hardware and software improve people's lives and give them so much freedom, regardless of their abilities. Next, it focuses on the cognitive issues and why UX Designers and Developers need to empathetic and consider specific points as they design and create accessible designs, also known as Universal Design. It closes with tips for designing with empathy and emphasizing the "Empathy is the next differentiator!"
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
From Daily Decisions to Bottom Line: Connecting Product Work to Revenue by VP...
Accessibility an Army of 1
1. S E DA M AU R E R , C PACC
2 0 1 8
Accessibility
An Army
of 1
2. Call to Duty
“The SVP wants us to focus on
accessibility compliance for our
products.
You know about accessibility, don’t you?
We’d like for you to lead this project!”
“Yes, Sir!”
3. Call to Duty
• Congratulations!
• You just got drafted for one of
the most complicated mission
in any organization.
You just became an Accessibility
Army of ONE!
4. Battleground Map
• Communicate:
– Evangelize...call to
Arms
– Inspect & Test
• Special Operations:
– Accessibility War
Stories
– Be a Super Warrior!
– Plan Summary
• Boot Camp
• Strategy:
– Team of Advisors
– Mission Statement
–Lawyer up!
• Tactics:
– Executive Order
– Battle Plan
– Delivery Order
– Estimating Times
– Training the Troops
– Design System
– Tools & Equipment
– Acquisition
Strategy
5. Boot Camp
• Buckle up! You have a long battle ahead!
• Put yourself through something of a Boot Camp
• Starting with the standards:
– WCAG 2.0, Levels A, AA, and AAA
– Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act
– Telecommunications Act Section 255 Accessibility Guidelines
– Universal Design
6. Boot Camp
• Identify the organization’s products and their specialties:
– B-2-C or B-2-B
– Desktop / tablet / mobile / transient
– iOS / Android / Windows / Other
• Battles are won with well planned:
– Strategy
– Tactics
– Communication
Learn how to be empathetic, with EVERYONE!
8. Team of Advisors
• Create an ACE team!
• Recruit leaders:
– UX Team, including your manager
– Marketing
– Product Development/Architecture
– …
9. Team of Advisors
• Meet as frequently as needed
– Prepare an agenda for your meetings
• don’t waste their time – you can’t afford it
– Be organized and keep track of the discussions and action items
• Collaborate with your ACE team regularly on:
– Process
– Creating documents
– Presentations
– Creating plans
– Recruiting more soldiers
– Advise on situations that you might come across
10. Mission Statement
• General! Why this battle?
• Write your Mission Statement
• This policy is a legally binding
document
– Word it well!
– Guard it well!
11. Mission Statement
• What is your battle scene like?
– Your compass is: the Accessibility Policy
– Your enemies are: legal and financial risks
– Your weapons are: guidelines and standards
– Your strengths are: passion, empathy, and
patience!
• Be prepared. You are attempting an
organizational Paradigm Shift!
12. Lawyer up!
• Must have a dedicated corporate lawyer on board of the
Ace team
• You’ll need to pass a lot through with your new trusted
advisor:
– Policy
– Documentation
– Corporate Announcements
– Customer Communications
– Promotions
– …
14. Executive Order
• You need to have an Executive on board in this battle
• Present the impact of not reaching compliance:
– Financial Risks?
– Contract on the line?
– Legal Risks?
• Present the opportunities:
– Reach a broader user base increased revenues?
– A differentiator for your products?
15. Executive Order
• Learn how to present to the Executives
– Review Brian Sullivan’s presentation on this topic - you will find it very
helpful
– Find yourself a coach/mentor from the leadership position, if you can
– Review your presentation with the Team of Advisors
16. Battle Plan
• I have had an accessibility dream for years…
Accessible designing and coding will be in the DNA of
my or my organization!
• What is your organization’s operating model for the
product lifecycle?
– Identify the official and accepted operating model
– Identify the development approach – Agile or Waterfall?
– Create a diagram of the entire process, including the early discovery stage
– Identify every step when accessibility must be considered
– Apply the RACI method to every one of these steps
17. Step Description
Stakeholders
MSM UX PO/B
A
DEV QA TW
A – 1
Have awareness of accessibility compliance
requirements and incorporate them in the BRD R / A C C
A - 2
Have awareness of accessibility compliance
requirements and incorporate them in research
and persona creation
I R / A I
A - 3
Refine and finalize BRD requirements (may include
sketches/wireframes) and create road map that
includes accessibility guidelines and testing
R / A C C I I I
Battle Plan
Responsible
Contributor
InformedAccountable
18. Battle Plan
• Verify this document with the right authorities:
– Begin with the Ace leadership team
– Product development leadership
– Compliance and Governance teams
This document is your Battle Plan!
Share it with all officers and leaders.
19. Delivery Order
• Consider what you’ll be asking from the product teams to do:
– Additional requirements
– Prioritize the accessibility compliance requirements higher than any others
– Spend funds that may not exist
• How can the product teams adopt accessibility compliance?
– Understand the full impact of this compliance
– Knowledge of how to design and code for compliance
– Creating/updating stories
– Creating/updating plans
20. Estimating Times
• How is the compliance effort estimated?
• For developers it means:
– Knowing what needs to be coded
– Knowing what needs to be altered and how
– Knowing how long it takes to code accessibly
• For QA it means:
– Knowing what standards and criteria they need to adhere to
– Knowing how to inspect the code for compliance
– Knowing how to test with screen readers
• Are they properly trained to estimate?
21. Training the Troops
• Your training program begins with raising awareness at all
levels of your organization…
Executives
Product
Leadershi
p
Dev &
QA
Agile
Coaches
Technic
al
Writers
Delivery
22. Training the Troops
• Find a good source of technical training to recommend
• Work with HR to make the completion of Accessibility
training a
part of the career development process
23. Design System
• Do you have design
standards/system?
– Visual presentation
– Common components, etc.
• Are these standards compliant?
• Enlist this team and begin
collaboration with them as well
Accessible Design and Good Design!
24. Tools & Equipment
• Free tools for different purposes:
– To inspect the code: WAVE, AXE, Totally, etc.
– Screen Readers:
• NVDA / Firefox
• Voice Over / Safari and iOS
• Talk Back for Androids
• Purchase JAWS / Windows
25. Acquisition Strategy
• Collaborate with the Procurement agents to:
– Create Statement of Work (SOW)
and Request For Price (RFP) templates
– Establish the Non-Disclosure Agreement
– Collaborate with suppliers/vendors
to conduct audits and validation tests
– Write and Negotiate contracts with
suppliers of tools and training
– Create proper templates
27. Evangelize…call to Arms
• You are supported by a a great ACE team!
• Have a “Fire! Fire!” deck for your executives!
• An introduction deck for everyone else!
Now begin spreading the word!
28. Inspect & Test
• Learn how to audit designs and products
– On multiple platforms
– Against the WCAG 2.0 Levels success criteria
– Against the WCAG 2.01 Levels success criteria
• Be mindful of the Universal Design requirements
• Learn how to write a report
Always be respectful of the efforts put into the product work
30. Accessibility War Stories
• Know that you have been a successful leader
when:
– Your peers who knew nothing of Accessibility, begin talking
about it in their daily design/development language
– PLC management has incorporated Accessibility criteria in
their guidelines
– Customers are confident with you and renew their contracts
• What’s your success story? Share them with
your organization
31. Be a Super Warrior!
• Collect and use stats!
• Back your information with proven
records and best practices
• Become an authority on this topic:
– Write blogs
– Write articles
– Present talks
32. Be a Super Warrior!
• Become member of accessibility related
organizations such as IAAP
• If you are really passionate about
this, become certified:
– Accessibility Core Competencies
– Accessibility Technical Expert
– Accessibility Tester
33. Plan Summary
Accessibility Compliance is not a
choice anymore. It is a requirement!
• So, you will need to be diligent in:
– Educating everyone, patiently and
empathetically!
– Get an Executive on board
– Collaborate with all stakeholders
– Make it easy for people to adopt
– Educating yourself
– Validate yourself
Your manager comes to you one day and asks if you know anything about Accessibility! You say that you do, since you went to a couple of sessions on this topic at Big Design Conference last year! So, she tells you that she has a project for you. That your company wants to be able to sell products to specific customers who are asking about their accessibility. So, if you’re interested, help figure out what to do and how to sell to these customers!
Or, maybe, you have a manager who knows about Accessibility, but doesn’t have the time to get involved with the details. So, she hands it to you to figure it out and move forward with this, since there are financial risks associated here!
In any case, you became very interested in accessibility, when you took these sessions you attended at the conference. So, you find this opportunity attractive and say yes!
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What does this battleground look like?
The Ace Team is the collection of your Captains, Lieutenants, and Officers.
What is the structure like?
You have your manager’s support and that is very important – because you WILL need it
They are your mentors, business advisors, and your ambassadors to their own sub-teams and territories
Implementation
Delivery
Mission Statement – that is the organization’s Accessibility Policy
Research on mission statements and policies for Accessibility
Consult with experts such as Knowbility, if you can.
This won’t happen without a common understanding and commitment. Help create it.
S/he is going to become your most trusted advisor
Accessibility is a sensitive topic for most organization and what is said or written may have consequences
This Executive will need to send a corporate-wide announcement on this initiative
Speak their language! $$$
In order for this dream to become a reality for any organization accessibility touch point should be in the entire product life cycle
If designs are not accessible, the problem is only partially solved with compliant code
If technical writers don’t know how to deliver accessible documents, their output is difficult to use, if not useless to so many
If delivery is unable to protect the accessible code, and not to override it, your team just wasted so much precious time!
If Agile coaches don’t know what you are advocating, they wouldn’t advise their respective teams…
It might be on YOU to find the training available out there
You will also be in a better position to recruit another soldier from this team
Okay, you are now equipped with:
This is where you need the Ace Team to help with introductions
Begin attending any and all executives’ staff meetings to present the initiative and explain the risks of non-compliance
Attend any business training, gathering, and sharing opportunities you get and introduce yourself
How does anyone know if a product is compliant?
You will need to educate and justify your statements
Why Accessibility?
For example:
Growing aging population
Working longer years
Technology omnipresent
It’s not about you! It’s about the users
International Association of Accessibility Professionals
Understanding your organization’s commitments and constraints
