📄️ Set (Requirements) that Include Accessibility
Role in the ENABLE Model
📄️ Create Accessible (Content)
Creating accessible content means ensuring that the words, images, media, documents, and data presented to users can be perceived, understood, and interacted with by people with disabilities. This includes both the raw content (e.g., text, visuals, captions) and the formats in which that content is delivered.
📄️ (Design) Accessible Experiences
Designing accessible experiences means intentionally creating user interfaces, interactions, and flows that can be used equitably by people with disabilities. This includes considering a range of impairments (e.g., visual, auditory, cognitive, motor, speech) and ensuring the design works with assistive technologies, follows inclusive patterns, and avoids introducing unnecessary complexity or barriers.
📄️ (Develop) Accessible Implementations
This intervention focuses on the actual building of accessible technology, ensuring that products are implemented in ways that support inclusive use. It involves choosing the right tools, frameworks, markup, and logic to ensure the product's backend and frontend are functionally accessible.
📄️ (Test) for Accessibility
Testing for accessibility means evaluating digital products and experiences to ensure that people with disabilities can perceive, operate, understand, and interact with them. This includes both manual and automated evaluations, ideally conducted by or with disabled users.
📄️ (Triage) and Prioritize Accessibility Issues
After accessibility issues are discovered -- whether through audits, testing, or user feedback -- teams must assess their severity, impact, and urgency. This process, known as triage, is followed by prioritization, where decisions are made about which issues must be addressed immediately, which can wait, and which may never be resolved. This intervention ensures that accessibility is treated as essential, not optional.
📄️ (Iterate) to Address Shortcomings
Iteration is the process of making continuous improvements based on testing, feedback, and evaluation. In the context of accessibility, iteration means revisiting and refining digital systems, policies, or environments to resolve accessibility shortcomings discovered during development, QA, or after real-world use.
📄️ Create (Stopgaps)
Stopgaps are temporary, partial measures introduced by builders when full accessibility is not yet feasible. They are not polished or equivalent alternatives -- they are acknowledged as incomplete. Yet they demonstrate care by reducing harm in the short term. Stopgaps do not replace the obligation to fully remediate; they buy time, reduce harm, and signal accountability.