This session presents “Shift-up Accessibility” as a framework that helps organizational leaders adopt accessibility governance as a strategic imperative to manage accessibility risks and opportunities as a business priority without losing the human-first spirit behind it.  The framework provides an…

For HSBC, digital accessibility isn’t a compliance exercise — it’s a business strategy. In this session, Mali Fernando, MBE, Group Head of Digital Experience and Accessibility from HSBC, will share how they’ve embedded accessibility into the core of how the…

In this session, discover how IKEA is embedding accessibility into its digital strategy to ensure that everyone of all abilities and stages of life can engage with our products, services, and brand. Practical examples of challenges and successes will be…

How do you get an accessibility program off the ground? Accessibility team members will reflect on Cvent’s accessibility journey. Four years after our program officially launched, we’ll share what’s worked for us and what hasn’t as a small group working…

Practicing procurement accessibility can literally improve the world. We’ll show practical methods to get your vendors to provide you with accessible products, which in turn will improve accessibility for all their customers, and so on. We’ll go beyond the VPAT…

Scaling accessibility is ultimately a shared understanding challenge, not just a tooling or training one. We focused on strengthening interaction expectations and reusable UI foundations through accessibility reviews, design system improvements, and centralizing practical authoring guidance that supports teams where…

Accessibility is essential across many sectors, but few are as critical as the cultural world. Over recent years, access to cultural events has shifted almost entirely to digital environments, often without accessible alternatives. Purchasing tickets for a concert, a theatre…