Support and buy-in

Getting support from the Products for All Accessibility team and other partners along with leadership buy-in will set your product area up for success.

Product partners

Product partners offer direct product accessibility support.

PA Accessibility Lead

Someone on your direct product area:
The PA Accessibility Lead is the main point of contact for accessibility on your product area. They plan for accessibility staffing, processes, set goals and timelines, and help get your product area to GAR4. This role can fall under Program Management or other role profiles.

P4A Accessibility POC

Someone on the P4A Accessibility team:
A dedicated person from the Products for All Accessibility team works directly with product areasĀ and your PA Lead. They provide strategic and domain consulting to ensure PAs have the right programs, resources and priorities in place.

Product area contacts

To find out who to partner with within your PA, refer to the PA contacts page

Leadership buy-in

Leadership buy-in is key in helping teams prioritize accessibility work and making it part of the team culture. Establish a strong partnership with your Executive Sponsor and Product Counsel to grow the accessibility impact within your product area.

Find a PA Executive Sponsor

The PA Accessibility Executive Sponsor program is a group of Googlers across the company committed to advocating for healthier programs, collaboration and progression as it relates to accessibility. They keep other sponsors current with accessibility trends and needs.

You can learn more about what's involved in being an executive sponsor for accessibility at go/a11y-exec-sponsor.

To identify your PA's Executive Sponsor, go to the Contacts (go/accessibility-contacts) page or see the full list of sponsors by PA go/a11y-sponsor-roster.

Work with your Product Counsel

Consult with your product counsel listed on go/whichlawyer.