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Day 30 - Building internal support

The last day of the 30-day challenge is to start building support beyond yourself. If you’ve been following along making good progress and improving the accessibility of your website by 1% each day, you’ve likely realized the limit to what you can do by yourself.

Ensuring equal access is a team sport.

Whether this was your first exposure to some of these topics or you're a seasoned accessibility advocate interested in the daily prompts, you can continue the change at your organization.

There is a lot that goes into ensuring equal access to digital information and it can be overwhelming to someone new to the idea.

Someone already familiar with the topic or that has a general understanding, is more likely to join in the efforts. The greater number of people you can bring along on this journey, the more momentum you’ll attract.

Even if you’re the only one working on your site, reaching out to others through social media, joining an accessibility mailing list, Slack, subreddit, etc increases the discussions about equal access.

The web is an evolving place which means access to information isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it activity. The more advocates you have in your organization, the more everyone benefits.

Task

  1. Pick one of the activities from this last month
  2. Write up a few sentences on why that activity matters to improve equal access (you have my permission to use anything from any of the emails)
  3. Include how you determined the opportunities on your website
  4. What changes you've made and the results
  5. How long it took you to make the change
  6. Any before and after visuals, audio, and explanations that may be helpful to illustrate the impact
  7. Send it to at least one other person who has expressed some mild interest or is their area of expertise

Further resources

Tomorrow I’ll send one final email to this list, it will wrap up the challenge and include a link to a short survey.