This presentation was given for the Bay Area Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup group to share Intuit's journey to expand accessibility education and ownership.

1. A Community-driven Journey

2. cmty-accessibility

4. A Community-driven Journey
Feb 5, 2019
(Happy Lunar New Year!)

5. Panelists
Ace Vu Ted Drake Louise Mintun Sagar Barbhaya Yvonne So

6. What is the Intuit A11y team?

7. Intuit A11y team
Ace Vu
Ted Drake
Louise Mintun
Sagar Barbhaya
Steven ChenYvonne So
Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum
Central team
Product /
location lead
Advocate &
champion
Poonam
Tathavadkar
Gary FranzSundip
Sharma
Joe Preston Anjali Desai PJ Nidecker
+

8. How do you contribute as
an individual?

9. Louise — content design
Design System

10. Sagar — product development
● Accessibility automation testing
● Responsible for creating libraries with Intuit's standard
configuration
● Accessibility lead for Desktop products
(TurboTax,Lacerte,Quickbooks)
● Provide technical guidance to teams and help find solutions
● Helped with Developer Productivity and Shift left Journey!!

11. Yvonne — product design
Mobile design guidelines Empathy and usability workshops Productivity tools

12. How does Intuit
prioritize accessibility?

13. Learning
Network

14. Accessibility studio

15. From early stage
through the process

16. How did Intuit
raise awareness?

17. Make __ accessible

18. Field trip

19. Accessibility summit

20. How did Intuit meet the demand
for knowledge at scale?

21. Accessibility champions
champions
179
174 level 1
4 level 2
1 level 3
27
29 Edmonton
Bangalore
7 Mississauga
9 London
4 Israel103 USA

22. Design champion training

23. Cheat sheets

24. How can we
measure success?

25. Frequent pulse checks
● Product and component audit
● Design audit
● Automate audit and report dashboard
● “Voice of the customer” feedback
● Accessibility Champions surveys

26. Partnership with Aira
Last October, Intuit and Aira
teamed up to help blind and low-
vision entrepreneurs complete
business tasks.
https://aira.io/intuit

27. Automation tool

28. Culture change
Learning about assistive technologies Lean research and review sessions New brand + design system

29. Open discussion
Let’s ask questions

30. Some questions to get us started
What didn’t work?
How do you get your accessibility bugs prioritized in comparison to
new features?
How do you drive culture change in your organization?
What is the return on investment for accessibility?
What’s next?

31. Come join us at
CSUN
Web4all

32. Thank you
Email us: accessibility-feedback@intuit.com
More information: designsystem.quickbooks.com/accessibility