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Digital Accessibility Toolkit project

About the project, who we are and what is our goal.

Purpose

Collaborate on the creation of a platform to centralize Government of Canada (GC) information on accessibility.

The Access Working Group (AWG) would like to enable interdepartmental centralization and sharing of accessibility information produced by GC departments in a central repository sharing space and in the open.

Sharing

The Digital Accessibility Toolkit (DAT) will focus on:

Task force’s key role

The Digital Accessibility Toolkit (DAT) will leverage accessibility expertise across government, showcase best practices, and promote inclusive design and be accessible by default.

The Digital Accessibility Toolkit (DAT) will also:

  1. Support the Public Service Accessibility Strategy’s Goal 3: Make information and communications technology usable by all;
  2. Provide recommendations for the creation of the accessibility resources and work from Government of Canada (GC) central repository;
  3. Supporting the implementation through various phases of work; and
  4. Discussion and initiate supporting activities to identify which information / materials would be appropriate to share.

Roles and responsibilities

The key roles will be defined based on the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) ARRM Project - Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping project.

Mandate and decision-making authority

The Digital Accessibility Toolkit (DAT) is a recommendation-making forum that has a mandate to:

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