5.17 Use Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI) practices
Business Strategy And Product Management
Implement JEDI practices to foster inclusive hiring practices within an organization, showing evidence of improvement over time.
Criteria
- JEDI practices:
Document commitments to JEDI practices with clear policies on how marginalized or otherwise underserved communities are prioritized.- Accessible Recruitment
- Confronting Career Inequalities
- How to Create a Diversity & Inclusion Mission Statement
- Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
- Our approach to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
- Statement on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- The JEDI Playbook for Business (PDF)
- The Tech Worker Handbook
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 1 – Poverty
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 5 – Gender Equality
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 8 – Economics & Work
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 10 – Inequality
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 16 – Sustainable Society
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 17 – Global Partnership
- Accessibility policy:
Establish a publicly displayed accessibility policy and demonstrate this via accessible digital products or services.- Accessibility Statements: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- CivicActions Accessibility statement
- Digital Product Accessibility Policy
- Developing an Accessibility Statement
- Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
- Don’t just borrow your accessibility statement for European Accessibility Act from some random site
- Don’t use scores from automatic tools in your accessibility statement – do this instead
- How to Write an Accessibility Policy
- How to Write an Accessibility Statement in 2025, with Examples
- Mangrove’s Accessibility Statement
- Mangrove’s Statement on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice
- Nava Values
- Sample accessibility statement
- Why inclusive products are green products
- JEDI training:
Provide JEDI-related training materials and schedule regular workshops related to how this topic manifests itself in digital products and services, covering topics such as algorithmic bias, digital divide, employment, mis- and disinformation.- Digital divide
- GR491 – 2-3015 – Reference Materials
- GR491 – 1-4002 – Sustainable Commitment
- JEDI Collaborative
- The JEDI Playbook for Business (PDF)
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 4 – Education
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 12 – Consumption & Production
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 13 – Climate Change
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- JEDI improvements:
Show measurable improvement over time across hiring, leadership, and operations.- Designing web services for people living in data poverty
- Racism and inequity are products of design. They can be redesigned.
- The Performance Inequality Gap
- Understanding Social Digital Responsibility
- Unequal America: Ten insights on the state of economic opportunity
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 1 – Poverty
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 5 – Gender Equality
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 8 – Economics & Work
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 10 – Inequality
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 16 – Sustainable Society
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 17 – Global Partnership
- WebHint
Benefits
- Accessibility
Incorporating more diverse affected party perspectives leads to enacting more inclusive policies, often resulting in better products, services, and programs. JEDI practices boost an organization’s resilience and ability to collaborate. This improves diversity in the tech sector and the overall accessibility of the web. - Economic
Having clear policies and practices reduces the risk of legal issues.
GRI
- Materials: High
- Energy: High
- Water: High
- Emissions: High