{"id":561,"date":"2020-09-20T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/?p=561"},"modified":"2020-09-15T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:55:33","slug":"stakeholder-motivation-for-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/2020\/09\/stakeholder-motivation-for-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakeholder motivation for accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wish me luck for tomorrow 9:15AM CET &#8211; I got a chance to present my suggestions for systematical improvement of accessibility efforts. <br><br>I am optimistic, majority of stakeholders seem to understand the need and benefits but I only hope that they can &amp; will also act on it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>&mdash; Bogdan Cerovac (@CerovacBogdan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CerovacBogdan\/status\/1301640515658625032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some thoughts on how to motivate stakeholders to embrace accessibility from my experience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Show them the benefits &#8211; don&#8217;t tell, show &#8211; talk is cheap, proof is needed,<\/li><li>Show them what are the value added components, key point indicators, what and how can be measured,<\/li><li>Show them how accessibility empowers brand, how it can increase customer loyalty, how it can even increase employee loyalty and inclusion.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple aspects at first, but not so simple to really make a valid point with hard facts. It really depends. If you find yourself in a situation when you start fresh, it is easier, if you live in a country that has decent legislation, add compliance as well. If you have some data that can help understanding, show it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not easy, but it should and must be done. Feel free to share your experiences with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some thoughts of mine on presenting the case for accessibility to stakeholders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[205,193],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-principles","tag-business","tag-business-aspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}