The European Accessibility Act has come into force, bringing new responsibilities for our clients. This session reveals our dialogue-driven approach: candid discussions, targeted workshops, and collaborative roadmaps to help clients understand the new guidelines and become accessibility advocates!

Prerequisite
None.

Outline
The European Accessibility Act came into force in June this year, and means that businesses must now legally provide accessible experiences for anyone operating in the EU.
Whilst the Act covers more than just websites, Digital Accessibility is our speciality and our entry point for communication with clients. Within the Drupal community especially, we understand the importance of providing accessible solutions. However, for some clients who haven't had to prioritise this in the past, justifying the cost and effort involved in making a site accessible can be an uphill battle.

This session takes you through the tools, processes and conversations that we employed with our existing clients to help their teams understand the EAA, and the impact it will have on their business as a whole. Most importantly the roadmap to making and maintaining an accessible digital presence.

During the talk we'll showcase some of the sites where we helped clients improve and become compliant, as well as how we have worked to upskill in-house teams and make them accessibility advocates. Key to this will be empowerment: we'll touch on the importance of providing teams with the knowledge and processes to promote accessibility through their organisations and work together with suppliers rather than being solely dependent on us.

Learning Objectives
- An understanding of the EAA and what impact it can have for businesses operating in the EU (and also the UK)
- Tools, tips and techniques to upskill others on digital accessibility
- Foster discussion on how we can all champion accessibility and make everyone an advocate!

Experience level
Beginner