You’ve got management buy-in and the resources to improve accessibility. But when faced with hundreds of digital platforms, where do you start? Embedding accessibility at scale in large organizations presents huge challenges. With limited organizations awareness of how to avoid or fix accessibility issues, it is often left to individuals and small teams of accessibility experts to manage and improve digital accessibility.
This webinar will look at how business planning and risk management practices can be used to guide decisions on where and how to focus accessibility activities. It will introduce the 4 R model – Risk, Rank, Replicate, Roadmap - to plan for and help measure accessibility improvements while drawing on examples and best practices from public sector, universities, and the financial industry. Attendees will also hear about the approaches to communicating digital accessibility challenges and successes to senior management and throughout large organization.
Speaker Bio
Abi James, PhD, CPWA, is a digital accessibility consultant and researcher with over 20 years’ experience in the assistive technology and accessibility field. She has led several projects to develop and deploy assistive technologies and web platforms as well as upskill individuals, organization, and policy makers in digital accessibility. During that time she has worked with a range of organizations including charities, universities and businesses to audit and improve accessibility of their digital platforms through embedding best practices.
Currently a Senior digital accessibility consultant at Barclays, she helps to lead a team improving accessibility across customer-facing digital banking platforms and internal systems. She also collaborates with the University of Southampton on research projects to advance accessibility standards, education, and policies with a particular focus on accessibility best practices for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.
Objective
During this webinar you'll learn how to:
- recognize factors that can impact accessibility priorities across your organization
- Determine which risk strategies can be applied to accessibility in your organization
- Identify risk controls and approaches suitable for managing accessibility in your organization
- Examine how digital accessibility success can be communicated and measured against business priorities