Accessible Content Is Everyone's Job: A Guide for Content Creators
By
Meryl Evans
Summary
This article argues that content accessibility is a shared responsibility across all roles — not just designers and production teams. It identifies the lack of education as the primary root cause of inaccessible content, and provides guidance on how content creators, marketers, salespeople, and designers can integrate accessibility into their everyday workflows. The piece emphasizes baking accessibility into processes from the start rather than retrofitting it later.
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I believe the biggest root cause of inaccessibility is the lack of education.
Everyone needs to bake accessibility into their processes.
Imagine forgetting to add sugar to a cookie recipe. Pouring sugar all over the baked cookies wo
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