[IxDA Discuss] Accessibility in the Agency Environment

[Steven Keith]

Www.capstrat.com is an agency that does a lot of work requiring 508
compliance. Thus we strive to be so as well.  We work with a local school
for the visually impaired to keep us on our toes and to police the integrity
of our compliance as opposed to running it through the 508-o-mat like Bobby.

We also do flash sites.

Accessibility is woven into four functional groups within our interactive
group. Strategy, UX, Design and Development. Each of these groups has a lead
who, among a myriad of other tasks, makes sure that accessibility is
achieved as required. We once left this up to the developers only and that
failed. 
Steven Keith  |  Director of Interactive  |  capstrat


On 9/19/07 10:59 PM, "W Evans" <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agencies don't do accessibility. They are advertising firms. They design
> flash sites.
> I will eat my words if someone shows me one agency site that is 508
> compliant.
> 
> On 9/19/07, Challis Hodge <challis at experiencepeople.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Curious to know how various interactive agencies are handling
>> accessibility. Dedicated accessibility group? Individual practitioners
>> floating across teams?  Is it implicitly built into the process? Just
>> winging it?
>> 
>> -challis
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