Hassell Inclusion

Digital Accessibility Experts

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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Hassell Inclusion

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Latest episode

Jun 14, 2026

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Episodes

What you need to know about Accessibility Trends in 2026 14.06.2026

Each year, digital accessibility evolves – new technologies emerge, regulations shift, and organisations adapt to rising expectations from customers, employees, and stakeholders. 2025 was no different, with accessibility continuing to move higher up the business agenda, alongside debates on the role of AI, the impact of new devices, and the importance of embedding accessibility into product delive...

Accessible by Design: Building Better from the Start 14.05.2026

Too often, accessibility is treated as something to be delivered in code or fixed during testing. But by then, it’s usually too late, too costly, and too inefficient to deliver well. True accessibility begins much earlier – in the tools we use in design, how we choose components, and how inclusive practices are embedded across the entire delivery pipeline. In this webinar, we explore how organisat...

What you need to know about the links between AI and Accessibility for 2026 14.04.2026

In the year since our last webinar on AI & accessibility a lot has changed. AI technologies and tools are constantly developing, regulations for greater transparency and inclusion in how AIs are trained have arrived, every brand wants to get their content in AI summaries, and people are asking if making web content more accessible will help. This webinar recording will tell you what you need t...

How to Craft a Strategic Accessibility Plan That Gets Funded 14.03.2026

What’s your game-plan for digital accessibility for 2026? If your ambition’s bigger than your budget, you’re not alone. Many teams struggle to turn good intentions into funded actions, and with new regulations and rising expectations, it’s more important than ever to work to maximise your budget, and spend it in the right places. This webinar will equip you to speak the language of leadership to s...

Now we’re past the EAA Deadline – What should you do now? 14.02.2026

The EAA’s June 2025 deadline wasn’t the end of the accessibility work organisations need to do. It wasn’t even the beginning of that end. But it was maybe the end of the beginning for many companies. If you’re a company who hasn’t reached the compliance level, what can you do to avoid panicking and encourage the official Monitoring Organisations from each EU Member State (or disability organisatio...

Everything you wanted to know about Accessibility. Live Q&A with Jonathan Hassell 14.01.2026

Every year we invite you to ask our CEO Jonathan Hassell to answer your accessibility questions. With 25 years of experience in accessibility, at technical and strategic levels, Jonathan can answer almost anything accessibility related. Whether you’re leading digital, designing experiences, running research, or driving inclusion, there are great, practical insights here in his answers to the trick...

Accessibility User-Testing & User-Research – Making sure you build what users really want 14.12.2025

Accessibility audits are great at making sure your experience meets standards and guidelines, but often people forget the real reason for accessibility – the user. There are multiple benefits of user testing with people with disabilities: it can unlock insights you may otherwise never have found, and ensure you are building solutions that work for all users, not just against guidelines. And user-r...

Accessibility in Marketing: the Opportunities and 3 Key Challenges 14.11.2025

Whatever the size of your organisation, marketing is key. How you communicate with existing and potential customers could be the difference between winning or losing them, and accessibility is key to that. In this webinar, we discuss essential topics for 2025: What you can win – Increasing Reach. How much will inclusion of people with disabilities and older people in marketing increase the reach o...

Accessibility Nightmares: From Digital Disaster to Inclusive Triumph 14.10.2025

In today’s digital landscape, accessibility isn’t a luxury – it’s a critical business imperative and an investment. An investment in broader market reach, reduced legal risk, and genuinely inclusive digital experiences. Our “Accessibility Nightmares” webinar pulls back the curtain on the types of real-world accessibility disasters that have cost companies millions, damaged reputations, and left us...

How to build strong accessibility capability across your organisation 14.09.2025

Over 700 organisations have completed our ISO 30071-1 Digital Accessibility Maturity Scorecard. The results show us time and again that organisations often have high motivation but low capability to deliver Digital Accessibility. In this session, Pete Bricknell and Jonathan Hassell explore how to equip your organisation with the necessary skills and strategies to achieve digital accessibility succ...

Supporting the needs of Neurodivergent People in 2025 14.08.2025

This is our second webinar focussing on neurodiversity and in it we look at what has changed since 2022. People get diagnosed with neurodivergent conditions more frequently, and disclose their conditions more frequently in their workplaces. It has become something that people talk about more in public. But have organisations really taken steps to ensure that those who are neurodiverse are able to...

DIY Accessibility Audits: How to Achieve and Maintain EAA Compliance 14.07.2025

Companies all over Europe are scrambling to audit the accessibility of their websites and mobile apps, so they have a chance of fixing their WCAG compliance by the European Accessibility Act deadline of June 28th 2025. One thing that often is overlooked, however, is what happens when you’ve reached WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. Whether you have a website or app, in Europe or outside Europe, it’s essenti...

Debunking Accessibility Myths 14.06.2025

Our team have been working in accessibility for many, many years. During that time, we’ve had to debunk many accessibility ‘myths’ in the minds of many people in organisations we work with, whether they’re Developers, Content Authors, Designers, Testers or Procurement Managers. All of these myths hold people back from doing accessibility well, or even doing it at all. Some myths have been around f...

Trends in Digital Accessibility for 2025 14.05.2025

2024 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 session, our CEO Jonathan Hassell looks back at what we learned about what’s working best to help organisations deliver accessibility in 2024, and how we b...

How to meet the accessibility needs of an increasingly diverse workforce​ 14.04.2025

It’s great to see employers embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. However, the gap between the intention of inclusion and its reality can be vast. Not being able to fully access internal tools and communications can be frustrating at best and excluding at worst – whether that’s being unable to tab through a purchasing system for employees who find using a mouse a challenge, to getting the rig...

Work Harder or Work Smarter? How to Optimise Your Accessibility Strategy 14.03.2025

Accessibility can at times be overwhelming with multiple strands, projects, handovers and tasks to complete. In this webinar, we share what we think are smarter ways of working when it comes to accessibility, so that you maximise your time, energy and budget and get the most benefit out of every piece of work you undertake. In this webinar, with special guests from our client, ServiceNow, we discu...

Accessibility & AI 14.02.2025

AI has the potential to transform many aspects of IT. So how it can help with accessibility? In this webinar we look at the pros and cons of various uses of AI in accessibility, to help you understand where it can accelerate your accessibility efforts, where you need to take care in using it, and how to separate the hype from the opportunities. Find out about: AI in accessibility testing – its str...

There’s More to Accessibility than WCAG 14.01.2025

WCAG is the most globally used and commonly understood set of accessibility guidelines used by organisations to ensure the accessibility of websites, apps and other digital comms for people with disabilities. It’s the yard stick by which the accessibility of digital products is usually measured. However, while it is brilliant in many areas, there are many elements of accessibility and needs of peo...

Ask me Anything 2024: Q&A with Jonathan Hassell - Episode 30 14.12.2024

Every year we invite you to ask our CEO Jonathan Hassell to answer your accessibility questions.  With 24 years of experience in accessibility, at technical and strategic levels, Jonathan can answer almost anything accessibility related. In this webinar, listen to him answer wide range of questions including; How do I prove the value of accessibility How do I drive accessibility in communications...

Creating Accessible Documents - Episode 29 14.11.2024

Today, your thinking about accessibility needs to go way beyond the web and apps. People in every organisation in the world are creating emails, Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents every day and saving and sharing these as PDFs with colleagues and customers. These need to accessible too. Here we discuss how to make all these different types of document accessible. We cover What you need to meet W...

Mastering Accessibility Statements, ACRS, VPATs, Documentation & Metadata - Episode 28 14.10.2024

Accessibility Statements are often used by organisations as an alternative to making their websites accessible. However, they were originally created to help improve the communication between organisations and users of their websites or apps who have disabilities. In this webinar, Jonathan Hassell, who wrote the initial guidance for accessibility statements in BS 8878, discusses what statements ar...

What makes a customer ‘vulnerable’ and how to support them - Episode 27 14.09.2024

In recent years the term ‘vulnerability’ has become increasingly used in regulated industries like banking and utilities. Many people can have characteristics of vulnerability – due to poor health, disability, neurodiversity, anxiety, ageing or a mental health condition, a life event such as a new caring responsibility, or low resilience to financial shocks such as the cost of living crisis. Every...

Why & how to communicate your accessibility successes - Episode 26 14.08.2024

We spend a lot of time helping organisations plan for improving accessibility, getting their key stakeholders on board, securing budget, and helping them develop Accessibility Centres of Excellence to drive consistent accessibility delivery. But as you do this where you work, once you’ve achieved some of these milestones, how can you ensure your improved accessibility credentials are communicated...

The European Accessibility Act & the US DOJ Notice of Proposed Rule Making - Episode 25 14.07.2024

In Europe, the European Accessibility Act’s deadline of June 28 2025 to make websites, apps and digital products from public and private sector organisations compliant with accessibility guidelines is just over a year away. In the USA, the DOJ NPRM about accessible websites of state and local governments, and Mandate M-24-08 to Strengthen Digital Accessibility and the Management of Section 508 of...

How to Meet The Digital Needs Of The Wealthiest Generation On The Planet - Episode 24 14.06.2024

Baby Boomers are the wealthiest generation on the planet. The over-70s are the UK’s most online adults after twentysomethings, with considerable spending power. But rarely do people talk about the digital needs of the ageing population, and the link between these and accessibility. In this webinar, we discussed why organisations should care about serving ageing customers, what older people want fr...

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