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Category: Accessibility Best Practices

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Change Management for Accessibility: Part 1

Practicing accessibility, in the proper manner is about embedding it into your organization’s development lifecycle, so it is not a reactive and costly fix for the team. For this reason, change management principles and practices are great ways to help implement accessibility successfully.
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GAAD 2022: Disability to Ability– how digital inclusion is transforming what it means to live in the 21st Century

In light of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Patrick Sturdivant, VP and Principal Strategy Consultant at Deque, reflects on the past 50 years of technological innovation and its contributions to the field of accessibility.
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Developer Heroes: How Providence Health, Puritan Life, and USAA build accessible insurance experiences

We spoke to developers from Providence Health, Puritan Life and USAA about what makes accessible development effective. Learn what key themes emerged from all three organizations.
Illustration of a laptop computer with an accessibility symbol displayed. The computer is wearing a red cape, and is featured next to the Clever logo.

Developer Heroes: Education for All with Clever

In the second installment of the Developer Heroes series, Chloe Caelynn, Software Engineer at Clever, discusses the process through which Clever spread accessibility across the organization with the right tools, training, and culture.
Illustration of a lecture video displayed on a laptop with closed captions, with the Michigan State University logo displayed to the side.

Innovation Providing Access: How Michigan State University crowdsourced closed captions to make lectures accessible while providing employment opportunities for students

Learn how the transition to remote learning created challenges and led to the creation of a closed captioning program at Michigan State University.