Working Groups

Working and advisory groups provide a structured way for organizations to coordinate, sustain, and advance accessibility and inclusive design efforts across departments, priorities, and project phases. PAC helps establish and support these groups so that accessibility work is not fragmented or dependent on isolated champions, but instead has a consistent forum for planning, collaboration, accountability, and follow-through. These groups help organizations align strategy with operations, surface emerging needs, coordinate internal stakeholders, and ensure that inclusive design considerations remain active within both long-term initiatives and day-to-day decision-making.

Disability Community Advisory Group (CDAG)

The Disability Community Advisory Group (DCAG) is a multidisciplinary and intersectional collection of disabled participants. The ideal DCAG size is between 4 to 8 members. This group should meet at least quarterly in perpetuity, but monthly may be advisable during heavy prototyping phases. PAC’s scope when helping with the DCAG is to create operating terms, help run the first few meetings, help recruit participants, and to model how to conduct inclusive and accessible meetings.

Inclusive Design Working Group

This is an internal working group dedicated to coordinating and working on various accessibility and inclusive design workflows spanning management of a Disability Community advisory group (DCAG) to visual description authoring, media access affordance streamlining, internal policy and practice development around access/inclusivity, and much more. Such a group can drastically evolve during the course of a project, with more capital project and policy creation/coordination at first, then transitioning to a more operational and logistical support role for the organization as well as being charged with facilitating the accessibility and inclusive design mandate of the organization across its many operations.

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