Overview

Sustainable accessibility means building routines for regular review and updates. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create a long-term maintenance strategy that outlines how, when, and by whom accessibility will be monitored. You’ll consider timelines, documentation, version tracking, and accountability to ensure your course remains accessible even as content and tools evolve.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Create a sustainable plan for monitoring and updating accessibility.
• Establish timelines, responsibilities, and check-in points.
• Document how updates and issues will be tracked and resolved.
• Ensure accessibility is baked into course maintenance workflows.

Exercise

Before moving on, take a moment to reflect on what you’ve just learned. These questions are designed to help you connect the lesson content to your own course and your future learners.

You can jot down your answers, share your thoughts in the comments, or just reflect quietly. These small reflections will help you shape your learner persona at the end of the module.

1. Who are your potential learners and what specific needs might they have?
2. Identify 2-3 characteristics that will influence how you design your course.