Developing Organizational Policies

Beyond the accessibility policy statement, the WAI outlines these steps to follow, with detailed explanations, in its resource on Developing Organizational Policies (2016):

• “[determine] Reference standards
• define conformance levels
• define scope of policy
• set conformance milestones
• consider third-party content
• define monitoring and review process
• next steps: Maintaining your policy
• longer term: Strategic planning”

What to Include in Policies and Procedures

In addition to what your accessibility policy should contain, we recommend that your policies and workflows should address these additional areas:

• the user experience
• the digital content and associated metadata,
• the authoring interface for staff or authorized users,
• the content ingestion tools,
• the standards that the institution intends to follow, including remediation workflows.

Accessibility Statement Generator Tool

If you don’t know where to start, the WAI has created a tool to Generate an Accessibility Statement for your Institution. Fill in the form fields to get a draft accessibility statement.