Upcoming webinars:
- Thursday 22nd October 4pm UK-time - Making PDFs more inclusive: How we train and support
- Thursday 19th November 4pm UK-time - Accessibility at Every Stage: Building Capability Across Your Organisation
- Thursday 10th December 4pm UK-time - AI & Accessibility: A Double-Edged Sword
Join us at our award-winning free monthly webinars (live captioned) where we discuss a different hot topic with our top accessibility experts each month.
If you’ve only got 1 hour a month to improve your digital accessibility knowledge, this is where to spend it!
If you have any difficulties registering, please contact us for help at [email protected].
If you've not been to one of our webinars before, you'll receive the link for the webinar from Eventbrite a few days before, and again on the day - don't forget to check your spam/quarantine system for any emails that come from Eventbrite!
Our webinars are hosted on Zoom and recorded - the video is available about one week after the event, with a full transcript (which can be google translated into your preferred language). So if like the webinar topic, but can't make it, please register and we'll send you an email when the recording is ready.
You can catch up with previous webinars on our free resource HiHub https://www.hassellinclusion.com/hi-hub/
Upcoming Webinars:
Thursday 22nd October 4pm UK-time - Making PDFs more inclusive: How we train and support
Documents are everywhere – from reports and policies to brochures, forms and essential customer information. But creating accessible documents, especially PDFs, that work well for all can be difficult.
Ensuring you know how to plan, structure, and adapt documents for different audiences is essential. Getting this right in the source document before creating PDFs helps several users groups, AI tooling and search engine optimisation – SEO, so more people can find and interact with your content.
In this webinar we’ll build on our previous document sessions but also give a taster of our new PDF training package which gives you the background, awareness and skills to do this yourself.
You'll get to experience our practical approach to training first-hand as Yacoob takes Liam through one of the topics covered in the course, explains the accessibility principles behind it and shows how they can be applied in practice.
You'll come away with:
- A better understanding of some of the barriers inaccessible PDFs can create
- Practical knowledge you can apply when creating documents
- An insight into what your teams need to know to create more accessible PDFs
- An opportunity to ask questions and learn more about document accessibility and our training
If you're interested in finding out more about document accessibility before the webinar, you can watch our Feb-26 webinar here and watch our 2024 webinar here.
Look forward to seeing you there.
If you’re interested in PDF accessibility and how to get it right, this session will give you a practical tips and an insight in what you need to do next to get your PDFs accessible.
Thursday 19th November 4pm UK-time - Accessibility at Every Stage: Building Capability Across Your Organisation
Accessibility isn't something that can be added at the end of a project. The decisions that determine whether a site, app or SaaS is accessible are made throughout its lifecycle – often by people in very different teams.
From strategy, to build, to promotion, to maintenance, accessibility needs to be part of the whole journey.
Product Managers shape what gets made. Web Developers build it. Campaign Managers promote it. Teams across the organisation add content and documents continually. QA teams ensure post-launch content and functionality keeps accessible.
So how do you give all these people the accessibility skills they need – without expecting everyone to become an accessibility expert?
In this webinar, we'll explore how organisations can build accessibility capability across different roles and make it part of everyday working practices.
You'll learn:
- Where accessibility needs to sit across the journey – and which teams can make the biggest difference.
- How role-specific training can build capability – giving people the practical skills they need for their jobs.
- How to bring more accessibility testing in-house – equipping QA teams to test products and identify issues themselves.
- How to maintain accessibility over time – rather than relying on periodic audits and remediation.
- How to scale accessibility capability – using flexible, on-demand training alongside expert support.
Whether you're looking to maintain progress after the European Accessibility Act, reduce reliance on external support or embed accessibility more deeply across your organisation, this webinar will help you build the capability to do it.
Thursday 10th December, 4pm UK-time - AI & Accessibility: A Double-Edged Sword
AI & Accessibility in 2026: Are We Removing Barriers – or Creating New Ones?
AI is being adopted at extraordinary speed. Organisations are investing in new AI-based tech stacks, automation, generative AI and increasingly customer-facing agentic experiences to reduce dev costs, improve productivity and transform customer experience.
For accessibility, the opportunity is huge. AI has the potential to remove barriers, personalise experiences and make products and services work better for more people.
But what happens when accessibility isn't part of the AI conversation?
Bias can become embedded. Vibe coding can produce scores of accessibility issues. AI-powered employee experiences can introduce barriers that weren't there before. And organisations may not even be measuring the impact on more than 25% of customers who already experience accessibility challenges.
In this webinar, we'll look at both sides of the AI accessibility story – and what organisations need to get right as adoption accelerates.
You'll learn:
- Where AI could transform accessibility – and create better, more inclusive experiences.
- Where the biggest risks are emerging – from bias and inaccessible interfaces to automation traps.
- Why getting it wrong matters commercially – particularly when AI is being used to drive efficiency and reduce costs.
- What organisations should be measuring – to spot when AI is creating barriers rather than removing them.
- How to get accessibility into your AI strategy – before inaccessible experiences become embedded at scale.
AI could be one of the biggest opportunities we've had to improve digital accessibility. But only if accessibility is part of the conversation now.
How our webinars help you
Whatever your role in delivering digital accessibility, these webinars are designed to help you develop your accessibility knowledge and maturity in your organisation.
Accessibility is a critical part of the digital product development process, and we all need to make sure that, in the rush to get products delivered, we don't short-change those with accessibility issues.
In talking to our network and clients at Hassell Inclusion, it’s clear they’re facing many challenges with this, at a time when digital is more important than ever before.
Our Digital Accessibility Experts Live webinars allow digital leaders and their teams to ask us their accessibility questions and get answers from our Hassell Inclusion accessibility experts.
Each month our webinar takes an important accessibility topic and shares practical advice and tips, from the perspectives of developers, designers, content authors, testers and the digital and product managers who lead them.
Come and be part of our accessibility community, and get expert advice from our experienced team who can help you get the benefits out of inclusive design.
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