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If your accessibility strategy has a hero, you may have a problem.

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Retire the cape. Accessibility shouldn’t require heroics. Build the system so people don’t have to save it. A gold cape hangs over an office chair above ACLT Institute branding.

If your accessibility strategy has a hero, you may have a problem.

You know the person.
The one who catches the issue everyone else missed.
Raises the accessibility question in every meeting.
Knows exactly who to call.
Follows up.
Follows up again.
And somehow keeps accessibility moving.

That person is valuable.
But they shouldn't have to be superhuman.
Because if accessibility works primarily because one determined person refuses to let it fail, that's not a sustainable system.
It's a dependency.

This is where leadership commitment has to become organizational structure.
Clear ownership.
Defined expectations.
Built-in processes.
Shared accountability.
That's governance.
And it matters because the real test isn't whether accessibility works while the champion is there.

It's whether it still works when they're not.
Accessibility shouldn't require heroics.
Build the system so people don't have to save it.

Advancing Accessibility. Shaping Culture.

#ACLTInstitute #AccessibilityCulture #AccessibilityGovernance #AccessibilityLeadership #DigitalAccessibility

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