Creating a Compliant and Economically Sustainable Path to Bring Accessibility into SMEs
summary
Hands-on demonstration of web accessibility tools and assistive technologies (e.g., screen readers and low-vision aids) to make teams experience accessibility needs directly, followed by presentation of case studies from SMEs and partner agencies that implemented accessibility to meet the European Accessibility Act. The session explains their approach of expert-led manual assessments (using assistive tech rather than automated scans) and how they achieved compliant, scalable, and economically sustainable accessibility workflows.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:38Accessibility starts within
- 4:40Our methodology
- 7:55Why manual assessment matters
- 11:30Demo: screen reader navigation
- 14:23Simulator glasses experience
- 23:56Roadmap for SMEs
- 30:42Franco Angeli case study
- 34:13Fondazione Sistema Toscana case study
- 38:48Credem Banca with Lovemark case study
- 47:34Conclusion and opportunities
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