A ‘quick-start’ guide for embedding accessibility and inclusive design practices into your team’s workflow
Practices for embedding accessibility and inclusive design into a team’s workflow.
Each person on a team, whether you’re a manager, designer, or developer, has a role to play in making federal resources accessible and inclusive. Your responsibilities are different depending on your role. So that’s how we structured the guide, with a separate section for each of five roles:
This guide provides:
We focus on the issues most likely to impact government sites. These guidelines do not provide a comprehensive list of all possible issues. Your team will need additional resources and work to conduct manual audits to conform to the standards of Section 508 (which aligns with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA), a law that ensures all web content is accessible to anybody with a disability.
This guide is maintained by the Accessibility Guild in the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
The Accessibility for Teams runs on Jekyll. To run it locally:
bundle install
npm run start
USWDS is updated to 3
uses SASS module syntax for USWDS packages.
You can make updates to USWDS with npm
.
Add custom styles to _custom-theme.scss
as described in the uswds repo.
This site uses custom USWDS theme settings in _src/assets/uswds-theme
. Use this if you want to include or remove utilities or update utility settings.
gulp compileSass
npm run start
For more information on contributing to the Accessibility for Teams (or even making a suggestion), see CONTRIBUTING.
This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:
This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.
All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.