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S. ChadhaBeyond Accessibility Compliance https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7948-9_1

1. The Billion People Question

Sukriti Chadha1  
(1)
Lookout Mountain, TN, USA
 

In the introduction, we identified prioritization as the main reason for the state of accessibility in today’s technology products. The second biggest challenge after prioritization is know-how. Undergraduate technology programs, software training programs, boot camps, and eventually technology companies often do not include accessibility as part of core training for product teams. So even when accessibility becomes a priority, teams might not have the necessary knowledge to build accessible products ...

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