Preparing to share accessibility-related content externally or with a broad internal audience? The following resources are a great starting point to review before your accessibility-related content reaches its intended audience.
External presentations on accessibility
go/a11y-external-master-decks is a 100+ slide deck presentation is intended for an external audience and can be used by anyone who wants to learn or share more about Google's accessibility efforts.
The presentation includes alt text on all images and speaker notes describing each slide. It is designed to be modular and adapted to different types of external audiences. It is also designed to be used by people with a variety of disabilities, including visual impairments, hearing impairments, and mobility impairments. This deck is also available in PT-BR.
Topics covered include:
- What is accessibility?
- Accessibility personas
- Overview of assistive technologies
- Accessibility on Android
- Chromebook accessibility features
- Accessibility in Google Chrome browser
- Accessibility features in Google products
- Experimental research
- How Google supports people with disabilities
Before using this presentation, please read the instructions on the first two slides. These instructions will optimize the presentation and ensure that you are presenting accurate information in an accessible way.
To provide feedback on the presentation, make a comment in the slide deck and tag a11y-events@google.com OR submit your comments through the feedback form. For questions, please email a11y-events@google.com.
Legal guidance
Legal Guidance on Internal and External Statements on Accessibility is a document is intended to better equip Googlers who create content for internal and/or external audiences to review their content for legal issues related to accessibility, ideally reducing the need for Legal review.
Some examples of content that may benefit from this document are:
- Internal trainings and presentations
- Internal product announcements
- External presentations
- Communications with external partners
- Marketing materials
Speakers' guide
The Accessibility Speakers' Guide is meant to help Googlers who will be speaking about accessibility to non-Googlers. It contains resources to help put together presentations and respond to questions.
Some Googlers who may find this helpful are:
- Googlers giving presentations related to accessibility
- Googlers demoing accessibility features of our products at conferences or events
- Googlers in sales or account management roles speaking to external clients about accessibility
Have an accessibility-related legal question?
Start with your product counsel at go/whichlawyer, and if your product counsel needs support from Accessibility Legal, loop in Smitha Danielyan. If you’re from the CPIEA team, reach out to Smitha Danielyan directly — preferably via office hours at go/A11yLegalOH.
Note that your friendly neighborhood Legal team is quite stretched at the moment, so please bear with us. If your request to Smitha Danielyan is urgent and you're not getting a response via email, please ping Smitha.