Accessibility Program Communications Plan Workshop

  • 1 half-day workshop, follow-up review session, advisory support if required
  • Laptop required
  • Bespoke price on application
  • 4-8 stakeholders

One of the biggest barriers to accessibility success is not technical capability. It’s communication. Our Accessibility Program Communications Plan Workshop helps you create a structured communications approach that supports behaviour change, stakeholder engagement and long-term program success.

Many accessibility programs do excellent work but struggle to build visibility, maintain momentum, celebrate success or engage stakeholders across the organisation. Without a Communications Plan, important achievements go unnoticed, support fades and accessibility becomes viewed as a specialist initiative rather than a business priority.

Working alongside your accessibility, communications and leadership teams, we’ll help identify the key messages, audiences, communication channels and success stories that will build awareness and engagement throughout the year.

Drawing upon our experience supporting global accessibility programs, we’ll help you create a communications plan that is practical, achievable and aligned to your wider business objectives.

Client quote: “I couldn’t be happier with how everything has landed across the teams, and our leadership’s commitment to us seeing it through. Thank you so much, we absolutely picked the perfect partner in you to help us.” – Accessibility Lead, Retail Sector

You will learn how to...

Create a Communications Plan for your Accessibility Program, taking into account:

  • Accessibility success stories
  • Programme updates and reporting
  • Support for accessibility awareness building
  • Internal communications planning
  • Stakeholder identification and engagement
  • Leadership engagement
  • Creating sustainable communications activity

Who is it for?

Suitable for Accessibility Program Leads, Internal Communications Leads, Diversity & Inclusion Lead, Change and Transformation Leads, Programme Managers, Executive Sponsors

Benefits

To you

  • Increased visibility of accessibility initiatives
  • Better stakeholder engagement
  • Stronger leadership support

To your organisation

  • Improved accessibility program momentum
  • More effective behaviour change
  • Greater awareness across the organisation

Prerequisites

Skills

  • You need to have a clear understanding of your organisation's current accessibility model

Tech

  • Laptop required for workshops on Zoom/Teams

Meet one of our trainersAbout Jonathan

Jonathan is one of the world's top digital usability & accessibility thought leaders. He has over 25 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 delivered the International Accessibility Standard ISO 30071-1 in 2019, which is based on the British Accessibility Standards BS 8878 that …

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