Accessibility for Leaders

Most organisations treat accessibility regulations as the finish line. You pass the WCAG audit, publish the statement, and the job is done. But compliance is just the bare minimum. It should never be the end goal, because it does not cover enough of the real accessibility and usability issues you’re likely to miss.

Talks in this series help leaders to understand what it takes to go further. To create a culture that treats accessibility as everyone’s job, rather than an audit at the end. To build a strategy that makes “done” mean more than the legal minimum, and to understand what’s lost when an organisation stops there. I cover things like the AAA criteria nobody implements, the disability employment and pay gaps that compliance alone doesn’t touch, and what true accessibility looks like in practice.

Thank you for talking to us at IBCA (Infected Blood Compensation Authority)! It was such an incredible session and your talk has ignited so much fabulous conversation across our Slack channels!

The talk not only created engagement and further conversation with our digital colleagues but also our operational colleagues who are less aware of accessibility within digital services.

Rob King, Lead Interaction Designer