Digital Accessibility Strategy options

Many organisations want to improve their accessibility. The challenge is knowing where to start or how to get buy-in from staff and managers.

Good practice can also stall when key people leave or change roles. The answer is to embed accessibility into the way your organisation works, not rely on individuals to carry it.

That means making accessibility a consideration at every stage: concept, design, development, testing, release and maintenance.

Every organisation starts somewhere different. A good strategy meets you where you are, sets a clear destination, and gives you a realistic roadmap to get there. Small steps lead to bigger ones. Stay the course and the change will be visible to you, your customers and your stakeholders.

The services below are designed to help you start, or restart, that journey. Each is described with a guide to the typical time involved. All are tailored to your specific needs and budget.

Accessibility Overview

A 2-hour workshop to explore your organisation's accessibility goals and identify some quick wins. You will receive a short follow-up report with recommendations and resources.

Many organisations use this session to decide which of the more in-depth options is right for them. Others use it as a fast way to make a start.

Approximate timeframe

Workshop session plus preparation and report delivery: 6 hours

Accessibility Temperature Check

We survey your staff and key stakeholders to understand your priority accessibility needs. We then provide recommendations to help you plan next steps, with an optional 1-hour Q&A briefing to discuss findings.

This option works well for organisations with limited budgets or staff availability. It can stand alone or lay the groundwork for a more detailed gap analysis later.

Approximate timeframe

Survey (including preparation), report with recommendations and 1-hour Q&A briefing: typically around 8 hours and up to 20 hours

Digital accessibility gap analysis

A gap analysis looks at whether you have the processes in place to embed digital accessibility in your day-to-day work. We interview your team and review your documentation, then give you clear, practical recommendations on what to improve and how.

An optional 1-hour Q&A briefing lets you quiz us on our findings. The scope can be as narrow or broad as your budget allows.

Approximate timeframe

Interviews, document review, analysis, reporting and 1-hour Q&A briefing: between 25 and 80 hours depending on scope

Digital Accessibility Maturity Assessment

Building on the gap analysis, a maturity assessment gives you a score across up to seven dimensions:

You can choose which dimensions to include. This is useful if your team doesn't control all areas, or if you want to focus on what matters most right now.

The results can also feed directly into an accessibility roadmap, which is a practical plan for implementing improvements at a pace and scale that suits your organisation.

Approximate timeframe

Interviews, document review, analysis, maturity assessment scoring, reporting and 1-hour Q&A briefing: between 30 and 80 hours depending on scope

Policy writing and reviewing

We help you turn your accessibility ambitions into clear organisational policy. Whether you need a new policy or a review of an existing one, we can provide draft wording for your team to work with, or collaborate closely through the whole drafting process.

Approximate timeframe

Meetings, content preparation, reviewing existing policies and policy templates: between 15 and 40 hours depending on scope

Accessible Procurement

Accessibility often fails before a project even starts because inaccessible systems get bought. Procurement is a challenge even for experienced teams.

We help you ask the right questions of vendors, understand their responses, and use the right language at every stage from RFQs and RFPs through to contract clauses. We also advise on policy, risk, and what to do when there is no accessible option available.

Approximate timeframe

Interviews, document review, analysis of current practices, recommendations and 1-hour Q&A briefing: between 25 and 50 hours depending on scope

Performance Monitoring

Tracking progress matters. We help you develop meaningful KPIs and metrics to monitor your accessibility goals.

We meet with key staff to understand your goals and how your organisation currently measures performance. We then recommend metrics that fit naturally into your existing reporting.

Approximate timeframe

Interviews, document review, discussing and recommending specific metrics and KPIs and 1-hour Q&A briefing: between 25 and 50 hours depending on scope

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