28/03/2024
Last week I attended for the first time - it definitely won’t be my last!
I spent most of the day listening to incredible speakers sharing their knowledge and expertise, their lived experience of disability and offering their advice to help attendees become more accessible and inclusive in their businesses. I’ve already been able to apply some of those tips within the organisations I work with and can see opportunities to do more.
I heard about inclusive design, the EU Accessibility Act, digital accessibility, how to have confident conversations about disability and making invisible disabilities visible.
It was great to meet people I’ve connected with online in person finally, and to meet so many new connections I’m looking forward to working with in the future.
Accessibility and inclusion is a long term journey. Even if you get it right one day, doesn’t mean it will always be right. Things evolve all the time and there’s always more to learn - and yesterday provided me with the opportunity to continue that learning.
Image ID: 4 panel members seated in front of a large screen which reads business without barriers, demystifying the EU accessibility act. The panel are 4 white peopl, 2 of whom are women. One man is blind and has a guide dog sitting at his feet. There’s an audience seated in front of them, a man providing sign language interpretation and speakers on stands in the background.
