Organisational Accessibility Support – Accessibility Centre of Excellence Workshop

  • 1-2 facilitated workshops.
    2-3 hours per workshop, remote
  • Laptop required
  • Bespoke price on application
  • Up to 10 decision makers

As accessibility maturity grows, organisations often reach a common challenge: where does accessibility support sit internally, who owns it, and how do teams get the support when they need it? Using our ISO 30071-1 Accessibility Maturity Model, our Accessibility Centre of Excellence Workshop helps organisations to design a practical accessibility support model that works for their organisation.

Without a clear accessibility support model, accessibility can become fragmented. Product teams make decisions in isolation, specialist knowledge is siloed rather than shared, and progress depends on a handful of passionate individuals rather than a sustainable operating model.

Drawing on our experience in helping global organisations embed accessibility at scale, we’ll work with you to define how internal expertise, trained practitioners, champions, governance teams and external specialists and tools should work together.

The outcome is a clear operating model that balances cost, capability and accountability while providing teams with the support they need to deliver accessible products and services consistently.

Rather than creating another central team that becomes overwhelmed, we help you create a model that scales with your organisation and supports long-term accessibility maturity.

You will learn how to...

Put together everything you need for you organisation's Accessibility Centre of Excellence

  • Defining an accessibility operating model
  • Balancing internal vs external accessibility capability
  • Embedding accessibility in roles and responsibilities
  • Scaling accessibility support pathways
  • Setting governance and escalation routes
  • Creating accessibility champions and communities of practice

Who is it for?

Suitable for Heads of Accessibility, Transformation Leaders, CIOs and CTOs, UX Leaders, Product and Engineering Directors, Testing and Quality Leaders

Benefits

To you

  • Clear accessibility ownership and accountability
  • Reduced reliance on individual accessibility specialists
  • Stronger organisational accessibility capability

To your organisation

  • Faster access to accessibility expertise
  • More predictable delivery outcomes
  • Improved efficiency and scalability in delivering accessibility

Prerequisites

Skills

  • You need to have a clear understanding of your organisations 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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