Some of the world's greatest innovations were initially made for people who have disabilities.So this time the Hassell Inclusion team are looking how product teams can be helped to think differently by engaging with the views of people with disabilities about their products.You’ll learn: why accessible ATMs don’t work for all people with disabilities, but a cheap way of providing in-journey entertainment via people’s own devices just might; why people who have difficulty holding devices might be a key demographic for sales of smart glasses; how some of the greatest innovations of all time were initially made for people who were blind or deaf; and how you can get these sorts of valuable insights into your product ideation process.Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/innovation-via-user-research-with-people-with-disabilities/

Due to Covid-19 many organisations are pivoting to digital, or are under pressure to accelerate their existing digital roadmap. So you do you make sure you don't forget accessibility while you're doing that?So this time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing how to deliver accessibility while you’re racing.You’ll learn: why asking your customers and staff what’s most important for them will help you focus your time, how “little and often” expert support can help you include accessibility when you’re updating your site, how best to avoid public criticism by communicating with customers where you’ve not had time to get accessibility right first time, and how live and snapshot audits can quickly help you find issues in products that you have time to make accessible by design, when you’re “fixing them after”. Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/accessibility-while-youre-racing/

This time we’re doing something a little different. I’m interviewing one of our accessibility managers at Hassell Inclusion, Rob Wemyss, to discuss how to go from good to great in accessibility. You’ll learn: why leaving accessibility testing until just before launch will cost you time and money, why moving your focus from compliance to customer experience can pay dividends, how to motivate teams to care about accessibility, and why you need to look at accessibility across all your digital products, not just your website. Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/going-from-good-to-great-in-digital-accessibility-digital-accessibility-experts-podcast-7/

This month the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing how you can measure the Return on Investment of your accessibility work.You’ll learn: how accessibility can minimise the cost of customer service, how it can bring you more customers and help you attract the most talented staff, how it can be an essential part of your sales pitch to clients, and how you can use it to improve your company’s ability to innovate. Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/accessibility-roi-podcast/

Most websites are created using Content Management Systems these days. So this month we’ve brought together two key people who are working to make Wordpress and Drupal accessible, for a head to head.You’ll learn: why they chose the CMS they support, what they’ve most proud of achieving in that CMS’s accessibility, what their biggest challenge was in doing that, and which CMS they think is the most accessible. Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/drupal-and-wordpress-accessibility-comparison-2019/

This time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing one small thing that people in each job role in a digital team can do to improve accessibility.You’ll learn: why developers need to rediscover semantic HTML, why business analysts should consider user journeys that extend beyond digital, why QA testers may be more important than specialist accessibility auditors, and how social media managers may be doing accessibility without even realising it.Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/the-one-thing-to-improve-accessibility-in-2019/

This time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing accessibility myths - those things that people think are true but aren't.You’ll learn: why words really do matter for accessibility, if two accessibility consultants will find exactly the same issues when auditing a site, if WCAG triple A is better than double A, and whether accessibility is ever the most important part of a digital project.Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/accessibility-myths-2019-podcast/

This time the Hassell Inclusion team are discussing the future of accessibility. You’ll learn: if accessibility is going to become more or less important going forwards, whether it will become more or less hard to achieve, how the use of component libraries impacts that, whether we’ll ever get past screen readers to think about the needs to people with cognitive impairments, and why we want nobody to talk about accessibility in the future at all. Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/future-of-digital-accessibility/

This is the first episode of the Digital Accessibilty Experts Podcast. So to kick things off I brought some of my team together to discuss something we’re asked all the time: ‘what do you wish you’d known when you got into accessibility’ You’ll learn: why people prefer accessibility demos to standards, how easy it can be to get started with fixing your site, the importance of getting colleagues and senior people excited about it, and why it’s important to do accessibility in an agile way.Transcript available at: https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/what-i-wish-id-known-when-i-got-into-accessibility/