Accessibility Audits, Training and Consultancy
Ensure that none of your users struggle to navigate or read your content with our comprehensive digital accessibility audit.
We examine the visual design, content, and technical set-up of websites, PDFs, emails, and social media. We offer insights through audits, show you how users experience your current communications (e.g. via a screen reader or testing with users with accessibility issues), and provide you with recommendations.
We also embed accessibility into your organisation and practices and build your confidence and skills in discussing and delivering accessible products, services, and content.
Why Accessibility?
Accessible communication ensures that everyone, regardless of disabilities or impairments, can access information. This promotes inclusivity and diversity within your organisation and in society more broadly. Moreover, embracing accessibility challenges can lead to innovation and creativity in communication methods and technologies. Finding solutions to make information accessible can drive advancements that benefit everyone, not just individuals with disabilities.
Increasingly, organisations must meet accessibility standards and legislation, including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) ‘AA’ level.
Meet our Accessibility Lead
Maria is an accredited accessibility expert with years of experience conducting audits.
She takes a user-centric and holistic approach, often working with the UX team to combine accessibility with UX audits.
Maria is a skilled trainer who loves working with teams to embed best practice.
As a Drupal developer, Maria can also help with remediation and communicate issues to development teams to ensure your digital assets meet the required standards now and in the future.
We guide our clients beyond the baseline of compliance to help grow the culture of organisations and put accessibility first.
Accessibility is a journey we're delighted to navigate with you.
Book Your Free Consultation with Maria
The consultation includes:
- a discussion of your organisational needs
- what gaps might exist in your knowledge and skills
- a general introduction to accessibility and our ways of working
How We Work
Our experts work with you every step of the way to ensure your digital communications to improve user experience and achieve compliance with the highest accessibility standards and legislation.
Our process will help you:
- Understand what your accessibility goals are.
- Discover where improvements can be made.
- Embed accessibility into your organisation and practices.
- Build your confidence and skills in discussing and delivering accessible products, services, and content.
Whether you’re a designer, developer, CEO, or content creator, you have the power to make a difference.
Step 1. Free Consultation
The free consultation includes:
- A discussion on your organisational needs.
- A discussion on what the gaps might be in your knowledge and skills.
- A general introduction to accessibility and our ways of working.
Email Richard on hello@agile.com to discuss how we could help your organisation.
Step 2. Discovery
We’ll meet with you and your teams to discuss:
- Why an understanding of accessibility is vital for all organisations.
- Our approach to auditing.
- Any issues you’ve already identified.
- Your accessibility requirements and ambitions.
Step 3. Audit and Testing
We use a combination of manual, real-life user, and automated testing to give you a systematic, reliable, and in-depth assessment of any or all of your communications channels against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) ‘AA’ level.
Step 4. Reporting
We provide the results in a handy easy-to-follow report that includes recommendations for improvements alongside an accessibility statement for you to publish on your site.
Step 5. Roadmapping and Remediation
We’ll work with you to translate our actionable insights into an accessibility roadmap, ensuring that remediation is manageable for your organisation and that critical issues are fixed promptly.
We’ll work with your teams to explain what we’ve done, how we’ve done it, and how they can work towards maintaining the highest possible accessibility standards. This will help to embed accessibility into your future work.
Step 6. Training
Our workshops aim to develop a culture of accessibility-first content design, skill up content creators and other stakeholders, and build empathy with users.
Each training is designed around your teams and bespoke to your organisation. We introduce teams to the broader issues surrounding digital accessibility before providing key takeaways and ideas on better structuring content.
We’ll work with your teams to explain what can be done, how it’s done, and how they can contribute to maintaining the highest possible accessibility standards.
We also offer training as a standalone service.
I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Agile and have genuinely found them fantastic to work with. Our project manager was totally on the ball with keeping track of goals, tasks, timelines, budget etc. so that nothing got left behind. I felt the whole team actually cared about the outcome of the project as much as I did.
Whilst they kept me updated and acted as part of my team every step of the way, I was also able to trust that they could get on with the project without me when necessary. They gave clear advice on aspects of the project I was not so familiar with and listened to me on bits that I did. They approached the project in a structured way, starting with personas and user journeys before entering the design phase. I think you’d be hard pushed to find another whole team of people like this. I usually have one or two people within suppliers I use that I prefer to work with, but I would happily go to any team member at Agile and know that I would receive great service.
Case Studies
CALP - user experience and accessibility audit
Resources
Search Resources | Accessibility Notes
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Book Your Free Consultation with Maria
The consultation includes:
- a discussion of your organisational needs
- what gaps might exist in your knowledge and skills
- a general introduction to accessibility and our ways of working