Create Awareness
Being truly aware of what accessibility and inclusiveness mean, what the landscape looks like, and how it can benefit your organization in multiple ways is a precondition for improvement.
We have the capability to provide the guidance needed to make organizations aware by informing them about the importance, explaining the different needs of different people, showing the benefits, and focusing on people, tools, and processes.
The creation of awareness is an ongoing process where everyone in an organization has its role and responsibility, no one excepted.
This provides a clear WHY for accessibility and inclusivity, and together with a Gap-Analysis (the HOW) decide the WHAT to embed all successfully.
Intro to Accessibility
1 Why accessibility is important
- 40% of people need accessible digital solutions
- It affects most people in their lifetime, and family plus friends
- The number of people with accessibility needs is growing
- User expectations are high
- For employees as important as for customers
2 More than just websites
- Skills for accessibility are increasingly in demand
- The new quality standard
- Reputation and competition
- The legal pressure
- Prevention instead of cure
Organizational Accessibility Awareness
Being aware of the needs of people with disabilities and the elderly and how they use digital products is a good start to becoming more inclusive.
But what does that mean for your organization? What benefits and insights do you need to gain? Who and how should employees be involved? And what changes do you need to implement to transform successfully?
What are the organizational challenges?
The fundamental themes of accessibility awareness remain unchanged:
- Grasp Understanding and Barriers you encounter
- Operational Gains and Applied Comprehension
- Embedding Changes for Processes and Employees
Benefits of Accessibility Awareness
Being truly aware of what accessibility can do benefits your organization in multiple ways.
The Business Cases
- Legal
- Commercial
- Ethical
- Innovation
- Competitive Advantage
- Improved User Experience
The Business Insights
- Business Goals
- Organizational Gains
- Return of Investment (ROI)
- Staff Motivation
- Value of Diverse Perspectives
- Certified Organization
Expand Awareness
Provide insights
- Understanding Customer Needs
- How People with Disabilities use sites and apps
- Understand Scale and Importance
- Lead, Drive, and Deliver
- Current position and next steps
Responsibilities
- All roles make a difference
- Teams Thinking
- What can you do now
- Power of Communication
- Comfortable Atmosphere
Embed in Organization
The People
- Inspire Staff
- Expanding Thinking
- Onboarding People
- Senior Leaders
- Product Owners
- Design, UX, and Developers
- Communication
Tools and Processes
- Bespoke Policies and Plan
- The Accessibility Journey
- Assess Organizational Goals
- Development Life Cycle
- Tools
- Support
We help organizations
Gap-Analysis
Comprehending the current status of your organization’s culture and processes through an evaluation of the relative performance in delivering inclusive and accessible products and services.
Maturity Progress
It is insufficient to make individual products in an organizational silo accessible. It is of critical importance that an organization establish repeatable internal processes and methods.
Accessibility Audits
Audits for accessibility provide insights if the already build product conforms to the global standard WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
We help to focus on accessibility barriers
“While there are many diversity groups in the world today, people with disabilities is the only one with a dependency on information technology…and in particular, accessible information technology.
Without it, people with disabilities are confronted with barriers to the digital world, depriving them of access to employment, goods, services, entertainment, information, and other aspects of modern daily life that others take for granted.
Unfortunately, the progress towards eliminating these barriers is still too slow.”
Strategic Advisor