How we Created an Innovative Accessibility Product to Bridge Disability Gaps
We’ve been busy behind the scenes to create a new web accessibilty service in collaboration with a local business that specializes in disability inclusion consulting and ADA web compliance accessibility. We were so excited to discover this firm and knew right away that we could make a great collaborative team.
Together, we’ve created a collaborative web audit package to offer our clients who want to improve their online presence via supercharged SEO and optimized UX for people in the disability community.
We’re passionate about reshaping the digital landscape to create accessibility for all and so we’re super excited to present this product to our current and prospective clients!
Allies in Disability Accessibility
In the summer of 2022, Wandke Accessibility (formerly known as Wandke Consulting) reached out to Intellitonic to gauge interest in partaking in a training for disability pride month. Intellitonic has been taking diversity, equity and inclusion work seriously and, and as a training that helped educate on accessibility issues for more than 15% of the population this offering felt right in line with Intellitonic’s mission and values. This training was eye-opening to the team, revealing a lack of representation and action taken on the intersectional issue of disability and web accessibility in particular.
After the team attended the Disability Pride Month presentation by Wandke Accessibility, the entire team’s interest was piqued. In our process, we had run across numerous individual tactics that could benefit folks with color blindness or who required text-to-speech browsers, but typically, our knowledge of accessibility only extended to image descriptions and alt text; we hadn’t fully delved into the design and usability issues that affect experience for the 1.3 billion people within the disability community.
We became our own first case study in soliciting Wandke’s audit services to review our website’s accessibility. It became apparent that not only were there dozens of fixes we needed to make for our website, but our clients also needed to make comparable improvements on their properties.
Coupling our socially conscious clients with an avenue to serve their communities better while improving digital marketing at a core level seemed an incredible opportunity; so we joined forces to make it happen.
And now, presenting…
Our new web accessibility audit service helps create equity and increase access to valuable information for all users. This quote from Daman at Wandke Accessibility says it all: “In our work, we’ve discovered that accessible design is good design. Accessible design is universal and creates opportunities for more people to connect and collaborate in the digital space.”
We’re proud to live our core values by partnering with Wandke Accessibility to elevate the digital landscape by making it more accessible for all.
