@inproceedings{VaziriCrowleyGadatsch2015, author = {Daryoush Vaziri and Catherine Crowley and Andreas Gadatsch}, title = {Review of the IT-CMF framework for the implementation of IT-accessibility}, series = {Cetinkaya, Ryan (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2015 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference. Nashville, TN, 30.05.-03.06.2015}, pages = {2059 -- 2068}, year = {2015}, abstract = {IT-accessiblity is often treated as an orphan in companies. Even though the proportion of disabled people is substantial and people become older and more susceptible to disabilities. Besides cost factors, companies often do not have a plan how to implement and control IT-accessibility successfully. However, most companies are familiar with IT-maturity frameworks to evaluate and improve their own IT-infrastructure. It would facilitate dealing with IT-accessibility, if IT-maturity frameworks consider IT-accessibility and provide recommendations and solutions for a successful implementation. Therefore, this article conducts a review of an acknowledged IT-maturity framework with regard to its capability to enable implementation of IT-accessibility in an organization. The first part of this article will illustrate the motivation and background for the authors concern with such a topic. Afterwards the authors will introduce the reader to the reviewed IT-maturity framework and provide basic knowledge on IT-accessibility. The main part of the article will deal with the review of the applied IT-maturity framework and outline examples of critical capabilities for successfully implementing IT-accessibility in an organization. The final section will derive implications and close with planned future research activities in this field.}, language = {en} }