Digital Accessibility at a Global Scale
summary
A Managing Director from AccessiWay explains how a Europe-wide company made digital accessibility manageable across 18 countries by structuring, prioritizing and implementing fixes in a complex organisation. The talk covers practical approaches for handling differing national laws (including BFSG scope), coordinating fragmented teams and vendors, assigning responsibility and budgets, and integrating accessibility into existing processes so it becomes a measurable quality factor rather than an endless project.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Web to accessibility chaos
- 3:06Human complexity in accessibility
- 4:53Global accessibility challenges
- 6:58WCAG as global standard
- 8:42Transparency and prioritization
- 10:11Defining roles and responsibilities
- 11:38Manual audits as standard
- 12:41Education and awareness
- 13:44Economic value of accessible websites
- 15:32Scalable accessibility success factors
- 16:56Accessibility as continuous process
- 17:39Beyond legal requirements
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