Accessibility Awards Entry Workshop

  • 1 x 2-3 hour session via Zoom
  • Laptop required
  • Bespoke price on application
  • Max. 10 attendees

Winning awards for your organisation’s accessibility work enables you to show real delivery against your accessibility and DE&I promises, and helps attract better internal investment into accessibility for teams and customers, as the value of your accessibility work is recognised. This workshop enables you to find the right awards to apply for, to recognise the excellence of work you’re doing.

From our CEO winning many awards when he led accessibility at the BBC, to helping Scope win the BIMA 2019 for Inclusive Design, and helping HSBC win multiple awards for their accessibility work in 2022-23, if you’ve done great work and want to be recognised for it, we can help you explore how awards can help your accessibility strategy.

This workshop introduces the value of awards and what awards are available to be won in the countries you work in, and helps you explore what aspects your organisation’s accessibility work could be awards-worthy, to create your awards application roadmap; all with the benefit of our deep understanding of what sorts of projects have the best chance of winning each award.

As a follow-up to the Workshop, we also provide an awards writing and submission service, where we help write awards applications with you/for you, to emphasise their key messages and fit to the award’s requirements.

You will learn how to...

Understand the full value of positioning your organisation for success through winning awards

  • Understand how winning awards can show real delivery against accessibility and DE&I promises
  • Learn what the awards landscape is like for accessibility – what mainstream & specialist awards there are to be won, in the UK and internationally
  • Identify which of your projects have the best chance of winning an award - creation of an awards application roadmap
  • Learn what help and support is required and available for awards entries

Who is it for?

Head of Accessibility, Lead Product Managers, Lead Programme Managers, Diversity & Inclusion Leads, Innovation Leads

Benefits

To you

  • Accelerate your work to get better recognition for your teams' great work
  • Get expert advice on which awards you have a chance of winning, at your current level of accessibility maturity
  • Learn what help and support is required and available for awards entries

To your organisation

  • Understand how the uplift in reputation from winning awards can help attract the right talent and show real delivery against accessibility and DE&I promises
  • Gain recognition from external bodies that your customers will trust
  • Demonstrate the ROI from your organisation's accessibility work, to reinforce the value of ongoing internal investment

Prerequisites

Skills

  • Knowledge of the accessibility projects worthy of awards

Tech

  • Laptop required for Zoom

Meet one of our trainersAbout Jonathan

Jonathan is one of the world's top digital usability & accessibility thought leaders. He has over 19 years’ experience in identifying new directions and challenges in digital accessibility, finding best practice process and technology solutions, authoring international standards and presenting best practices to conference audiences across the world. He has just delivered the new International Accessibility Standard ISO 30071-1, which is based on the British Accessibility Standards BS 8878 …

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