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August 2025

August 21, 2025

Join us to learn about the Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) framework, a community developed resource to support digital inclusion.

Date and Time

  • Thursday August 21, 2025 3:00 PM CT
  • Presenter: Denis Boudreau
  • Online via Zoom

The ARRM Framework: What It Is and How It Can Be Leveraged for Digital Inclusion

For several years, Denis Boudreau has led a team of volunteers at the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) in an effort to address and minimize the feelings of overwhelm that too often seem part of an accessibility journey. As codified in the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the requirements seem to have proliferated and are subject to various interpretations. If you attended AccessU in 2018 or 2024, you may have participated in workshops as Denis and colleagues gathered community input. After years of collaboration, they formed a W3C Community Group in April of 2025 to oversee and maintain their work. Recently they published a Draft version of the ARRM and are seeking community review and further collaboration to implement the tool.

Join this session for a walk-through of this newly released resource and get the inside view of how it can best be used to make sure that accessibility is not siloed. Learn how you can use ARRM to distribute digital accessibility responsibility across teams and integrate it into product development and maintenance life cycle. We invite community participation as we explore:

  • What is ARRM?
  • The collaborative process through which the tool was developed.
  • How to use ARRM to help distribute and track digital accessibility responsibility throughout a team and a company.
  • Guidance for you to get directly involved in its ongoing development and distribution.

Meet Your Presenter

    Denis Boudreau

                

                              

      

            

        

                                    

                
Denis Boudreau is an international expert in digital accessibility and inclusive leadership more than 25 years of experience in the field. Denis helps inclusive leaders connect with the missing piece in their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts - disability inclusion - so their organizations can go from "inclusive-ish" to truly inclusive. He specializes in supporting organizations wishing to adopt more inclusive leadership and communication practices, particularly for their workforce and clients who live with disabilities or are aging. Offering leaders the means to extend the reach of their message to a much broader population, he is also the author of the Amazon bestseller "The Inclusive Speaker”, published in 2023.
Denis is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC), a Certified Web Accessibility Specialist (CWAS), and a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), a designation that only about 600 experts worldwide can claim. As a global leading inclusive communications expert, Denis empowers busy professionals with powerful tools to bridge the gaps that exclude up to 46% of their audience based on disabilities, aging, and technical challenges.
Denis currently serves as Director of Training for Knowbility and is co-chair of the ARRM Community group at the W3C WAI.