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Building an Accessibility Culture Through Habits, Not Mandates

[email protected] (Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats)

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Summary

Dani, an accessibility engineer, shares a personal journey of facing potential job redundancy and using that moment of crisis to reflect on how to build an accessibility culture through small, consistent habits rather than top-down mandates. The article emphasizes that fostering accessibility is about cultural change driven by daily practices, not just policies or checklists.

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What did I do well? What could I have done better? What did I learn?

Building an accessibility culture isn't easy, and there's no clear playbook.

Small, consistent habits made a big difference.

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While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.

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