Digital Accessibility Experts

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 technologies, devices, la...

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 session, find ou...

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 for customers or...

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 discussed where...

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 to support your...

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 risk, what’s the effort needed...

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 can help you sell...

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 Accessibility...

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 people with disabi...

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 joined by Di...

Neurodiversity is a hot topic right now. Organisations are looking to hire people who are autistic & dyslexic because of the diversity of thinking they can bring to their workforce. But how do you make sure your organisation is set up to be able to recruit neurodiverse people and enable them to thrive in your working culture, especially when it comes to your digital communications, tools, and...

In this webinar, our consultant, Peter Bricknell welcomed 4 guests (both buyers and vendors of SaaS) to talk about why accessibility is essential to their procurement and sales in 2023: Lisa Harper, Senior Digital Governance Manager at HSBC, Suraj Kika, CEO and Founder at Jadu, Eamon McErlean, VP of Accessibility at ServiceNow, Denise Wood, Digital Accessibility Lead at PWC. Listen to them talk ab...

This is an audio recording of a fast-paced webinar, where CEO Jonathan Hassell answered 30 strategic and technical accessibility questions asked by our webinar audience. So whether you're a product manager or web developer, whether you want to know what to prioritise after an audit or what’s the best practice in the accessibility of text, there's something in here for everyone. This audio was orig...

How do you get your boss to buy into accessibility? Accessibility takes time and money, so getting teammates and budget holders on side is essential. Here, Jonathan Hassell and Pete Bricknell share the skills and tools to make that happen, turning accessibility from a handful of passionate experts into full company buy-in. They share advice and ideas on how to persuade your bosses to invest in acc...

Some of the world's greatest innovations were initially made for people who have disabilities. So this time the Hassell Inclusion team are looking how product teams can be helped to think differently by engaging with the views of people with disabilities about their products. You’ll learn: why accessible ATMs don’t work for all people with disabilities, but a cheap way of providing in-journey ente...

Due to Covid-19 many organisations are pivoting to digital, or are under pressure to accelerate their existing digital roadmap. So you do you make sure you don't forget accessibility while you're doing that? So this time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing how to deliver accessibility while you’re racing. You’ll learn: why asking your customers and staff what’s most important for them will h...

This time we’re doing something a little different. I’m interviewing one of our accessibility managers at Hassell Inclusion, Rob Wemyss, to discuss how to go from good to great in accessibility. You’ll learn: why leaving accessibility testing until just before launch will cost you time and money, why moving your focus from compliance to customer experience can pay dividends, how to motivate teams...

This month the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing how you can measure the Return on Investment of your accessibility work. You’ll learn: how accessibility can minimise the cost of customer service, how it can bring you more customers and help you attract the most talented staff, how it can be an essential part of your sales pitch to clients, and how you can use it to improve your company’s abil...

Most websites are created using Content Management Systems these days. So this month we’ve brought together two key people who are working to make Wordpress and Drupal accessible, for a head to head. You’ll learn: why they chose the CMS they support, what they’ve most proud of achieving in that CMS’s accessibility, what their biggest challenge was in doing that, and which CMS they think is the mos...

This time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing one small thing that people in each job role in a digital team can do to improve accessibility. You’ll learn: why developers need to rediscover semantic HTML, why business analysts should consider user journeys that extend beyond digital, why QA testers may be more important than specialist accessibility auditors, and how social media managers ma...

This time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing accessibility myths - those things that people think are true but aren't. You’ll learn: why words really do matter for accessibility, if two accessibility consultants will find exactly the same issues when auditing a site, if WCAG triple A is better than double A, and whether accessibility is ever the most important part of a digital project. Tra...

This time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing the future of accessibility. You’ll learn: if accessibility is going to become more or less important going forwards, whether it will become more or less hard to achieve, how the use of component libraries impacts that, whether we’ll ever get past screen readers to think about the needs to people with cognitive impairments, and why we want nobody...

This is the first episode of the Digital Accessibilty Experts Podcast. So to kick things off I brought some of my team together to discuss something we’re asked all the time: ‘what do you wish you’d known when you got into accessibility’ You’ll learn: why people prefer accessibility demos to standards, how easy it can be to get started with fixing your site, the importance of getting colleagues an...