Digital Accessibility Experts

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Whether you call it Inclusive Design or Digital Accessibility, whether you're an individual with a passion or an organisation wanting to know more, this podcast explores a range of topics on accessibility. Hosted by Jonathan Hassell, its aim is to share inspiration, expertise, and hints and tips to help speed you on your digital accessibility journey.

For our most up-to-date insights, join us for our free monthly webinar - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-accessibility-experts-live-registration-111949261254?aff=Podcast

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What you need to know about Trends in Digital Accessibility for 2024 - Episode 23

May 14 2024 56 mins  
2023 was a big year for accessibility, with more and more companies committing to get accessibility right, WCAG 2.2 slightly moving the goalposts, and different AIs proving useful tools for accessibility or total red-herrings.In this essential webinar, our CEO Jonathan Hassell looks back at what we learned about what works in accessibility in 2023, and how we believe new technologi

How to Build Strong Development Capability in Accessibility - Episode 22

Apr 14 2024 52 mins  
If you want to deliver brilliant, accessible products and services, you need to know that you can rely on your development team to deliver their part of accessibility.In this webinar, we explore how you can ensure that your developers have the right capability to deliver accessibility in the sorts of products you’re asking them to develop in 2023.In this practical and insightful

Accessibility in Multi-National Organisations - Episode 21

Mar 14 2024 51 mins  
How do you approach accessibility when you’re a multi-national organisation? While the objectives and the desire to achieve them are often the same globally, many local factors need to be considered. In this webinar Jonathan Hassell and Peter Bricknell tackle how to meet the challenges of different laws and regulations in different countries, and how they require different things

WCAG 2.2 – Understanding the changes and implications for your organisation - Episode 20

Feb 14 2024 52 mins  
The new version of WCAG 2.2 was launched in October 2023.We’ve been getting lots of questions about it from across our clients and the accessibility community.So this massively popular webinar discusses everything you need to know. We covered the practical things: What are the changes WCAG 2.2 brings? What do they mean for you and your users? What should you do about it? We also

The Pros & Cons of Outsourcing Accessibility - Episode 19

Jan 15 2024 47 mins  
As organisations mature in accessibility, they often recruit experts to manage it internally, moving from dependence on suppliers or tools for their accessibility.So what should you do with internal experts? What should you use expert accessibility suppliers to do? And what could you do with your current staff, with the right training and tools?In this webinar we explore how best t

Accessibility: How do you prioritise when everything is urgent? - Episode 18

Dec 14 2023 53 mins  
It’s true that you can’t do everything, for everyone, all of the time.So prioritising accessibility demands can be a real challenge for all organisations no matter where they are in their accessibility journey…It could be that you’re faced with a 100-page accessibility audit and don’t know where to start. What do I fix first? What’s urgent and important? What’s the ri

5 things to do to get the ​accessibility funding you need​ - Episode 17

Nov 14 2023 48 mins  
If you want to get buy-in to accessibility to get funding and make change happen, then this is what you need. In it, we share 5 proven strategies to get the investment and commitment from your Senior Stakeholders.Whether your battle is getting a share of Diversity & Inclusion budgets, showing the Board the difference accessibility makes to your customers or employees, how it ca

Building an Accessibility Centre of Excellence - Episode 16

Oct 16 2023 53 mins  
In 2023 many organisations are getting serious about accessibility. After public commitments from senior leaders, they often recruit someone to create an Accessibility Centre of Excellence (ACE) to embed accessibility throughout the organisation.This makes perfect sense. However, the skills needed to be an Accessibility Strategist and Leader are different from those needed to be an

What’s the best way of getting to accessibility compliance in 2023? - Episode 15

Sep 14 2023 52 mins  
Almost all organisations want to improve their accessibility.But what should be their aim: WCAG 2.0 AA, WCAG 2.1 AA, people with disabilities being able to use their site/app/campaign? And what’s the best way of testing if you got there: getting a tool to automate accessibility testing, getting a WCAG audit, doing one of our Live Audits, asking your usability testers to include p

Exploring the intersection between D&I and Digital Accessibility - Episode 14

Aug 14 2023 51 mins  
Diversity & Inclusion strategies often neglect a focus on accessibility as a way of delivering inclusion for staff with disabilities.Accessibility strategies often neglect a focus on staff, concentrating just on customers with disabilities.People in each of the two disciplines often miss their common aims, by not doing enough to understand each other.Our CEO Jonathan Hassell is