Digital Accessibility Experts

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

  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 right information from RAG status charts if you’re colour-blind, or viewing company videos that don’t come with captions.Everyone in an organisation has a role to play in enabling accessibility to happen for staff – from procurement managers assuring the accessibility of digital tools they buy, to internal comms staff thinking about the accessibility of pages they create on their intranet.In this session we share key steps you can take to deliver internal digital tools and comms that deliver to both your organisation’s values, from having worked with large and small organisations, to make this happen.We touch on:How to ask your employees about their access needsHow to ensure the digital toolks you’re buying are accessibleHelp! I can’t change what we’ve bought… What do I do?How do you make sure your comms don’t let the side downThis audio was originally recorded as a webinar.You can access the video recording of the webinar, and its transcript, here: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/how-to-meet-the-accessibility-needs-of-an-increasingly-diverse-workforce/Access it for free by registering on HiHub (https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/) will also give you access to recordings of all our past webinars, and keep you updated on upcoming webinars.

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

  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 discuss the benefits of:Design reviews vs Accessibility TestingJourney review vs WCAG reviewSpeed Dating vs guessing what customers thinkThe value of a great briefingLive Audits vs full auditUser Experience vs ComplianceIn the session we acknowledge the challenges and restrictions of standard approaches and share with you smart ways of working to get you a better/cheaper/more efficient approach.This audio was originally recorded as a webinar.You can access the video recording of the webinar, and its transcript, here: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/work-harder-or-work-smarter-how-to-optimise-your-accessibility-strategy/Access it for free by registering on HiHub (https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/) will also give you access to recordings of all our past webinars, and keep you updated on upcoming webinars.

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• Accessibility & AI

  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 strengths and limitations, and when human input is requiredAI in assistive technologies – strengths and limitations of AI in screen readers and text summary toolsHow to think about accessibility when you’re procuring AI toolsHow more accessible content (for example accessible PDFs) benefits those using AIOther areas where AI could benefit users with access needs, to build the case for new AI toolsHow to eliminate bias when you’re creating AI, by including users with disabilities throughout AI developmentThis audio was originally recorded as a webinar.You can access a copy of the webinar and its transcript here: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/accessibility-ai/Access it for free by registering on HiHub (https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/) HiHub will also give you access to recordings of all our past webinars, and keep you updated on upcoming webinars.

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• There’s More to Accessibility than WCAG

  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 people with disabilities that the current version of WCAG (2.2) doesn’t adequately cover.WCAG 3.0 will expand into some of these in the future. But how do you bring that future into the work you’re doing right now, especially when regulations require you address the needs of people that WCAG overlooks?This webinar will help you do that, covering:Why are people so fixated on WCAG? What are its strengths?Where does it fall short? And what benefits do you get from going beyond it?Is WCAG 3.0 going to save us? And when can we expect it to be available?Going beyond WCAG because it’s not enough for your product – for mobile apps, VR, print media, kiosks and ATMsGoing beyond WCAG because it’s not enough for your users – for neurodivergent and older peopleGoing beyond WCAG because its assumptions don’t hold for your users – writing text at the right reading age for your users, and handling the impact of digital literacyGoing beyond WCAG by doing your own user research to identify your users’ needs, and how to use those insights to guide you.This audio was originally recorded as a webinar.You can access the video recording of the webinar, and its transcript, here: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/theres-more-to-accessibility-than-wcag/Access it for free by registering on HiHub (https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/) will also give you access to recordings of all our past webinars, and keep you updated on upcoming webinars.

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

  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 accessibilityHow do I drive accessibility in communications in my organisation?What are the legal requirements? And how will they change?How to ensure 3rd party accessibilityHow does WCAG apply to native apps, streaming services, or hardware?What to think about when doing Captioning and Audio DescriptionsTools for testing accessibility, and ways to recruit people with disabilities for user-researchThis audio was originally recorded as a webinar.You can access the video recording of the webinar, and its transcript, here: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/ask-me-anything-2024-qa-with-jonathan-hassell/Access it for free by registering on HiHub (https://www.hassellinclusion.com/webinars/) will also give you access to recordings of all our past webinars, and keep you updated on upcoming webinars.

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