Tools for Internal Advocacy

Corporate accessibility champions often have to convince their colleagues, team members, or executive leadership of the importance of digital accessibility to a diverse workforce. Other champions may have to advocate for including people with disabilities in an organization’s diversity commitment.

Here are some resources to assist in the advocacy that is necessary for a robust accessible procurement program:

• Industry Literature Review on the Business Case for Disability Inclusion
• Webinar: Building Successful Accessible Procurement Programs: A Conversation with Procure Access Companies‍
• Business Case for Disability Inclusion: Getting To Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage – a joint report from Accenture, Disability:IN, and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)‍
• Hiring People with Disabilities is Good Business – New York Times (External link)
• The Benefit of Designing for Everyone – Centre for Inclusive Design Australia (External link)
  
  • Article about the report: Research reveals inclusive design can expand customer reach fourfold (External link) – Launched in partnership with Adobe and Microsoft
• Business Case for Digital Accessibility (External link) – Content from the Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C
• Value of Involving Employees with Disabilities Early in the Process: Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility (External link) – Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C
• Strategies for Encouraging Teams: Gaining Buy-IN for Accessibility in Your Company (External link) – Article by an Amazon UX team member