Sustain
Accessibility Does Not Stand Still
Digital environments and technologies continue to evolve. Content and platforms change. Accessibility expectations, interpretations, and regulatory obligations continue to change.
Accessibility can improve and strengthen, or it can drift or erode, depending on what happens next. Sustain exists because accessibility is not only about addressing today’s barriers. It is about supporting accessibility over time as organizations, technologies, and expectations continue to change.
Par Sentio helps organizations maintain progress, adapt to change, and continue making informed accessibility decisions after foundational accessibility work has been completed.
As accessibility efforts mature, organizations continue their accessibility journey beyond assessment and remediation. Sustain provides a structured path for ongoing partnership, guidance, and support to help maintain progress, adapt to change, and support long-term accessibility goals.
Sustain Scenarios include:
- Accessibility improvements have been implemented and they want help maintaining progress over time, including visibility into accessibility health, emerging risks, and long-term opportunities.
- Websites, applications, products, services, documents, or platforms evolve and grow over time.
- Accessibility findings continue to inform oversight, validation, compliance, procurement, legal, insurance, or regulatory activities.
- Multiple teams, vendors and external systems can create compliance issues and complicate management of content, design, development, or operational support.
Sustain (Internal)
Organizations improving the accessibility of their own digital environments, content, systems, and user experiences engage Sustain to help maintain accessibility over time, support decision-making, reduce risk, and strengthen accessibility as their environment evolves.
Sustain (External)
Organizations involved in accessibility-related evaluation, oversight, reassessment, governance, monitoring, or corrective action activities involving third parties, engage Sustain to support remediation oversight, evidence development, ongoing review, validation, and responsible reliance on accessibility information over time.