Digital accessibility
Digital accessibility is becoming a legal requirement for many private companies. There is business value in accessibility, but companies in various industries need to move beyond the initial audit to find their specific benefits. Discover how to begin your accessibility journey.
Accessibility strategy ensures long-term compliance
Staying compliant while developing a complex digital service in a changing environment isn’t easy. Beyond the initial accessibility audit, companies will need to create processes to ensure accessibility in delivery and upskill the necessary roles. Acing this provides a business opportunity that is more than just complying legislation.
Meeting accessibility requirements can be complex
In the wake of the EU directive on accessibility, businesses across Europe face a pressing challenge: ensuring that their digital products and services are fully compliant with the upcoming regulations. Navigating the EU directive and translating it into concrete actions can prove complex.
Compliance isn't merely a regulatory hurdle – it’s an opportunity to create exceptional digital experiences that cater to a broader audience and result in measurable business outcomes. At Futurice, we understand that accessibility goes beyond compliance, enhancing both user experiences and business innovation.
How we navigate the landscape of digital accessibility
Assessments: Starting with assessing the digital landscape and making accessibility audits to determine compliance status and areas needing improvement.
Prioritization: Prioritizing the most urgent issues and creating a plan based on the level of accessibility.
Implementation: Accessibility experts implementing the necessary changes to ensure the products and services are accessible.
Accessibility goals: Generating buy-in from entire organizations with clear accessibility goals that connect to the overall strategy and vision.
Training: Providing accessibility training to teams, ensuring they have the knowledge and skills to maintain accessibility in future developments.
Ways of working: Establishing rituals, tools, practises, testing and monitoring checkpoints into development processes to ensure ongoing compliance.
We can help you ensure long term compliance and accessible products and services
Accessibility audits
To assess the compliance level of your digital products and services against global standards like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), our accessibility experts conduct thorough reviews to identify areas that need improvement. These audit results can be synthesized to accessibility statements.
Remediate issues
After the audit, the list of findings can be extensive. We understand development teams might already have a full backlog, so we support creating a structured plan to address them efficiently and extend your team with experts to balance the workload.
Training services
Our tailored accessibility training provides practical knowledge of day-to-day accessibility for diverse roles within your organization—from design and development to QA, product owners and managers, and content creators. The interactive training focuses on real-world accessibility, ensuring your team can integrate best practices into their work.
Integrate accessibility into your processes
We don't stop at compliance today, we integrate accessibility into your organization's ways of working to ensure long term compliance. Through training, workshops, and ongoing support we help you establish tools and rituals that help your teams succeed independently, co-creating good practices for accessibility to guide your work.
Accessibility boosts innovation and improves user experience
Futurice is your partner in achieving not only compliance with the EU directive on accessibility, but also in creating exceptional digital experiences that cater to everyone. We believe that accessibility isn't just a legal requirement; it's a pathway to innovation and great user experiences.
Contact us
- Susanna HyötyläinenSenior Software Developer & Accessibility Specialistsusanna.hyotylainen@futurice.com
- Noora PunamäkiDesigner, Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
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