Steps Tech Leaders Are Taking To Meet New Accessibility Mandates
CIO, Thursday, July 6,2023
No longer a side issue, new regulations mean accessibility is rising up the business technology leadership agenda.
Leading CIOs are empowering their teams to make the digital estate as accessible as the physical buildings of the business, and they're right to do so. Major legislation is about to reshape the digital landscape in the US and across Europe, which will mean CIOs must focus their sights on digital accessibility.
'We've seen great strides in diversity and inclusion around gender and ethnicity, but there's another huge element of society that companies are missing serving well, namely people with accessibility needs, be it physical or neurodiverse,' says Peter Bricknell, chief product officer of UK-based digital inclusion and accessibility agency Hassell Inclusion. 'Without proactive support, this large community may be excluded from our increasingly digital world.'