Accessibility Planning for 2025

This free webinar took place Wednesday 23 October 2024 at 1pm BST.

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What are your goals for your accessibility programme in 2025?
What are your priorities for your budgets?
How do you build your plans and collaborate with colleagues?

During this insightful session on Digital Accessibility Planning for 2025, Amy Low, CEO of AbilityNet, hosted an engaging panel discussion featuring Brian Grellmann from Aviva and expert consultants from AbilityNet. The discussion delved into how to plan with digital accessibility in mind for 2025, offering valuable insights and strategies for creating inclusive digital environments.

Brian shared his experience of running a maturing accessibility programme and discussed Aviva’s approach to accessibility planning for 2025, including their strategies for measuring success.

AbilityNet consultants Robin Christopherson and Jess Cahill also showed how the Digital Accessibility Maturity Model can be used to take stock of your current position and identify priorities for action.

Watch the video recording below and download the slides and transcript.

This session was aimed at anyone with responsibility for delivering accessibility in their work, to help you think about what you want to achieve in 2025. This included:

where are you now?
where do you want to get to?
what is your wishlist for 2025?

Robin and Jess work on accessibility strategy with a range of clients and can offer top tips to help how to prioritise projects, build links with internal stakeholders, and where to find helpful resources.

This webinar ran for 60 minutes and included an opportunity to pose questions to the speaker(s). Find out more about our webinars in our FAQs information.

Download the webinar slidedeck and transcript

You can download the slides for this webinar [PPT]

You can download the transcript for this webinar [DOC]

Meet your panel

Robin Christopherson, MBE, AbilityNet

Robin is Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet and a leading light in the global community of accessibility and digital inclusion specialists.

Robin's experience of sight-loss gives him a first-hand experience of the power of digital tech to transform people's lives - and he loves nothing more than showing people how he uses computers, the internet, his phone, Amazon Alexa and many other technologies as part of his daily life.

It has also made him a passionate and powerful advocate for accessibility, inclusive design and digital inclusion, making the case for social and technical changes to business, government, third sector, universities and many other organisations.

Jess Cahill, AbilityNet

Jess Cahill has been an Accessibility and Usability Consultant with AbilityNet since 2018. Her professional background includes web product and project roles, content design and UX research, in both charity and private sectors, including in the disability field. She has a particular interest in accessible content, maps and map creation, and accessibility for small organisations.

Amy Low, AbilityNet

Amy Low is the Chief Executive Officer at AbilityNet. Having spent more than 15 years working in a variety of leadership and transformation roles within serviced property and IT services, Amy joined AbilityNet in 2016, drawn by the opportunity to leverage technology to remove barriers to participation for disabled people and create a better digital experience for everyone. She works with a wide range of institutions and organisations providing services and support to ensure their digital practices are meeting the needs of the widest audience.

Brian Grellmann, Aviva

Brian Grellmann is the UX Research & Accessibility Lead at Aviva, where he heads up a team of 10+ dedicated user researchers and accessibility consultants. He is also part of the advisory committee for the DARA project at City St George’s, University of London which seeks to improve the accessibility of data visualisation for decision-making.

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