Even if a WordPress site is accessible at launch, it isn’t guaranteed to stay that way.
Websites are always evolving. There is new and changing content, new features and plugin upgrades. All of these affect accessibility, and this is often the time when accessibility starts to degrade. Accessibility doesn’t usually fail because we don’t care. It fails because the ownership is unclear. Accessibility becomes someone else’s task, where everyone assumes someone else will do it, and then no one does.
Ownership gets more complex when there are several organisations involved. The site owner maintains the content, one agency might take care of the site development and maintenance, and then there might be an agency to take care of the designs. Sometimes there are even more organisations working on one website. If responsibilities and ownership aren’t clearly defined, accessibility will fail sooner or later.
In this session, Sanna explains how to make post-launch accessibility ownership practical. Attendees will learn where accessibility commonly falls through the gaps, how to define responsibilities across roles and organisations, and how lightweight governance practices can support accessible content, development, handovers, and maintenance.
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