Definition of done
A team’s checklist for when a piece of work is finished, which needs to include accessibility.
A definition of done is the agreed list of conditions a feature must meet before a team calls it finished: tests pass, the design is reviewed, the copy is approved, and so on. Adding accessibility to it is one of the cheapest process changes a team can make. A feature is not done until it works with a keyboard alone, every control has a name, images have alt text, contrast meets the minimum, and the automated checks pass.
The effect is that accessibility stops being a separate project someone has to fund and schedule. It becomes part of what finished means, checked in the same review where everything else is checked. The point is to avoid a large remediation later.
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