Accessibility, making content and applications accessible to people with special needs (blind, deaf, and people with cognitive impairments) is, to my mind, an important issue. Section 508 is a by-law in the USA that attempts to make sure that applications and content from government (at least) is accessible for all, irrespective of community. Is this topic one that comes up at all in your work? Who should be responsible for it?
Accessibility, making content and applications accessible to people with special needs (blind, deaf, and
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It comes up all over the place for us. We’ll just say that a certain client requires it. For us the responsibility is between the developers and the business analysts, but we don’t have the most efficient SDLC process. Generally, the BAs put it in the requirements document and the Devs go through it and see if it is possible to accommodate all the requests. The testers are then responsible for making sure that it complies with the requirements document. We do have outside consultants who specifically in things being 508 compliant that look at the applications to make sure they do. Really it’s everyone’s responsibility on the project, because it is so important. When dealing with the government a lot of revenue is at stake and making a mistake like that can cost you in the long run.