Digital Accessibility: Enjoying the Carrots and Avoiding the Sticks
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The document outlines a webinar on digital accessibility led by Robin Christopherson, highlighting its benefits for websites and intranets, including wider audience reach, increased usability, and cost savings. It also discusses the legal risks of non-compliance and presents a case study of Legal & General demonstrating significant returns from enhancing accessibility. Key components include mobile accessibility trends, essential training for employees, and interactive Q&A opportunities.
Digital Accessibility: Enjoying the Carrots and Avoiding the Sticks
- 1. Digital Accessibility – Enjoying the carrots and avoiding the sticks Welcome
- 2. Webinar Chair Robin Knowles Founder Digital Leaders
- 3. Webinar Guidelines 1. Mute your microphone during the presentation 2. Contact Robin Knowles through the chat window if you have a question 3. Hold all questions until the end
- 4. Webinar Presenter Robin Christopherson Head of Digital Inclusion, AbilityNet
- 5. Digital Accessibility: Enjoying the carrots and avoiding the sticks Robin Christopherson, AbilityNet robin.christopherson@abilitynet.org.uk @USA2DAY www.abilitynet.org.uk @AbilityNet sales@abilitynet.org.uk +44 (0) 1926 465 247 Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 7. Key Benefits of Accessibility For your website: • Reach a wider audience – up to 20% • Makes your site more useable for everyone – by 35% • More mobile-friendly • Reduces page weight, bandwidth and maintenance • Improves search engine rankings • Easier to refresh Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 8. Key Benefits of Accessibility For your intranet: • Cater for your disabled employees (of today and tomorrow) • Raise awareness and create an empathetic environment • Makes your intranet more useable for everyone – by 35% • Reduces page weight, bandwidth and maintenance Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 9. Mobile Means Inclusion • Mobile internet traffic routinely outstrips desktop traffic • Revenue increasing – Black Friday up 187%, Thanksgiving 256% • Mobile users constantly ‘temporarily disabled’ – e.g. good contrast on sunny day or hands free use whilst driving • Use cases will only become more extreme – e.g. wearable computing • ‘Accessibility’ no longer a niche consideration Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 10. Key Risks • It’s the law – Equality Act, Disability Equality Duty, employment law • Potential cost of litigation • Lose employees, customers and clients • Cost of medical retirement, recruitment and retraining • Bad publicity/brand damage • Retrofitting accessibility more costly and more difficult Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 13. Case Study: Legal & General • Relaunched accessible site • 95% increase in life quote requests online • 90% increase in Life Insurance sales online • 100% return on investment in 12 months • Saved 200k per annum on site maintenance (66% saving) • Speed/Effort required to manage content reduced from an average of 5 days to 0.5 days per job • www.legalandgeneralgroup.com Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 14. Digital Accessibility: Web Essentials We’ve cracked it! Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 16. Web Essentials: eLearning for Everyone Take the simple route to awareness for every employee and make your services and products more inclusive • Every member of your IT team • Every employee that posts to your intranet, or creates any electronic document (such as an email or Word doc) • Guarantee base level knowledge of key accessibility issues • Just a few pounds to take the course - £35 to get certified • DAWE takes 80 minutes + an optional multiple-choice exam • www.abilitynet.org.uk/dawe Accessibility Carrots and Sticks, January 2014. www.abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
- 17. Q&A Send your questions to Robin Knowles through the chat window. Robin will select you to ask your question.
- 18. Thank you for joining us We will connect you to each other via email after the webinar. A copy of this presentation will be uploaded to the Digital Leaders website shortly.
Editor's Notes
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