Accessibility

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• understand accessibility and that users have different accessibility needs
• help fix accessibility issues under the direction of others

2. Working

You can:

• understand users have different accessibility needs
• build user interfaces that meet accessibility standards and fix accessibility issues under the direction of others

3. Practitioner

You can:

• build user interfaces that meet a predefined set of standards
• champion accessibility to internal stakeholders
• offer design feedback to mitigate the risk of failing accessibility testing
• offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use when accessibility testing

4. Expert

You can:

• show a strong understanding of accessibility and be an advocate for users with accessibility needs
• build user interfaces that meet a predefined set of standards
• champion accessibility to internal and external stakeholders
• offer design solutions to mitigate the risk of failing accessibility testing
• recommend the best tools and methods to use when accessibility testing

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• develop strategies for accessibility (close match)
• ICT accessibility standards (narrow match)
• test system accessibility for users with special needs (narrow match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

Role levels that expect this skill