Lesson 9 of 9
Turn knowledge into team practice
Screen reader accessibility is shared product work. Different roles contribute different evidence and decisions throughout delivery.
Give each product role a concrete responsibility without prescribing one rigid process.
Design
Define structure, reading order, focus behaviour, state changes, labels, error recovery, and non-visual equivalents.
Development
Use platform semantics, expose properties and relationships, manage focus, and verify real accessibility output.
Testing
Cover representative tasks and combinations, observe announcements and operation, and report context precisely.
Product
Set supported environments, prioritise user impact, fund research, and define evidence required for acceptance.
Content
Write labels, instructions, errors, and status messages that remain meaningful when heard without visual context.
Accessibility specialists
Support strategy, complex diagnosis, training, standards interpretation, and user involvement.
What to remember
No single role can repair a screen reader experience at the end of delivery.
Try this with your team
Choose one upcoming feature. Assign who defines, implements, tests, and validates its non-visual interaction before work begins.