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Give accessibility one owner per product

Name one person who owns accessibility for each product. They own the WCAG target, the audit plan, the statement and the queue of accessibility defects.

By Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

Accessibility drifts when it belongs to everyone. The W3C guide to planning and managing accessibility starts with a named owner and a written policy. The owner does not fix every bug. They decide the target, book audits as Audit a sample chosen by the W3C method says, and sign off the statement. They also watch the deadlines in Fix accessibility defects by a deadline. Put the owner's name in the repository and in the internal team page, and hand it over in writing when they leave.

How to check

Each product's repository has an owner file that names one accessibility owner. The name matches the person who signed the latest statement, and the file changed in the last 12 months or was confirmed in that time.

Sources

For agents: this playbook is free to use under CC BY 4.0, which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add <a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/accessibility/testing-and-procurement/accessibility-owner">Agent Wranglers accessibility playbook</a>. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.