To mark the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), here’s a blog on how to write effective accessibility statements based on the guidance in BS 8878. Find out who the audience for statements are, the main reasons most accessibility statements don’t work, and tips for how to get it right…
There is a strong link between inclusion, user-focus and the delivery of effective websites. Industry feedback suggests BS 8878 is enabling large and small businesses to produce effective websites, rather than just accessible ones. Based on this, Hassell Inclusion and Coolfields Consulting have created Website in 1 Day – a bold new option for helping small businesses create their own effective websites in record time…
What do you know about your website’s target audiences? How they use the web. What they might want from your site. What do you really know? Are they like you or very different? And isn’t it a good idea to spend some time and effort working that out before you start creating something for them? Because if you don’t understand the users you are creating the site for, even if you create a usable site, it may not be one they actually want…
Your audience are the people who will make your site successful or not. They are your most important stakeholders, and your only way of managing them is to try to understand their needs and desires and find some way of meeting them through your site. Ensuring that as many people in your primary and secondary audiences can use your website, whatever their abilities or disabilities, is a great way of maximising your customer base. But it’s not possible to create a website that includes absolutely everybody. So how do you balance that ideal with what’s practical…
If you have no money and need a website for your business right now, does BS8878 help at all, or is it just another ‘nice to have, if I had the time’? Here’s my answer as a series of blogs on the decisions I’ve taken in creating the Hassell Inclusion website. Part one deals with how BS8878 can help you work out how complete your site needs to be before you can put it out there and get yourself a web presence, without making that presence so half-hearted as to score an own goal before you’ve even started…
Today sees the official launch of the v1.0 website for my new business, Hassell Inclusion. Having left the BBC at the end of July after 9 years, I’m genuinely excited about the opportunity to share the huge amount of experience I was honoured to pick up there more freely than I’ve been able to in the past. On the website you can find the vision for the company and the services that we provide. Part of that vision is continuing the blogging I started when I was at the BBC…
Hassell Inclusion is an inclusion and accessibility consultancy founded and directed by internationally renowned accessibility expert Professor Jonathan Hassell. Hassell Inclusion provides: strategic thought-leadership in inclusion and accessibility; training and consultancy to embed inclusion in organisations’ business-as-usual processes; leadership to set national and international inclusion standards; and facilitation of innovation in inclusion.