Develop strategies to manage digital accessibility compliance

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This standard is about developing strategies to manage digital accessibility compliance in software products and services.

This involves creating strategies to deliver required accessibility and obtaining organisational commitment to deliver required accessibility for all users. This includes creating organisational policies, standards and techniques for user accessibility design, managing user accessibility evaluations and advising on process improvements.

This standard is for those who need to develop strategies to manage digital accessibility compliance for software components and services as part of their duties.

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1. Create organisational policies and standards for user accessibility evaluation and design

2. Obtain organisational commitment to deliver required accessibility for all users of developed software

3. Manage user accessibility testing resources to deliver required assessments

4. Plan and lead user accessibility design activities for software development programmes

5. Test that software accessibility requirements have been met and that required practices have been followed
6. Advise those conducting accessibility testing on the processes to use and the user evaluations required
7. Work with design teams to ensure that feedback from accessibility evaluations is understood and acted upon by designers and developers

8. Promote best practice for digital accessibility by design 

9. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate an effective implementation of accessibility by design into organisational systems, products and services

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1. The details of legislation and industry standards that relate to software user interface accessibility requirements

2. The importance of creating effective organisational policies for user interface design and accessibility evaluation 

3. How to develop organisational policies which define the digital accessibility compliance that must be achieved

4. The steps involved in managing accessibility evaluations to the required quality and timescales
5. The need to obtain organisational commitment to deliver required accessibility for all users
6. The steps involved to assure that software user interface accessibility requirements have been met
7. How to prioritise digital accessibility activities
8. The importance of promoting high standards of digital accessibility across the organisation
9. The need to implement processes to communicate feedback from accessibility evaluation to designers and developers
10. How to plan resources to deliver accessibility evaluation
11. The development opportunities required to maintain an effective accessibility evaluation and design capability