60 seconds of accessibility, with our accessibility champions
Digital • May 15, 2025 • Written by: Methods • Read time: 1 min
In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we spent 60 seconds with each of our accessibility champions to ask them some of our most burning questions that push us to think deeper about inclusion.
What does accessibility mean to you?
Accessibility means:
- ensuring an app or a service is easy to use for all users and that those with accessibility needs can access content and complete tasks
- educating and supporting our clients to appreciate that accessibility needs to be constantly iterated
- educating and supporting all users to appreciate that changes made for accessibility help everybody.
What are the most common accessibility challenges you face in your role?
- People presenting data and information in an inaccessible way. Is it a presentation or a dissertation? Accessible design is good design.
- Inaccessible training platforms which are hard to follow and complete.
What challenges do you face when trying to make things more accessible?
Stakeholders who insist that none of their users have accessibility needs.
What is your biggest accessibility ick?
- Terrible presentations from people who should know better.
- "Click here" - it makes me cringe, and makes me think that nobody has thought about accessibility in any way when creating the content.
- The same issues coming back during audits, mostly basic ones.
How do you balance accessibility with other priorities on your project?
- Accessibility is the priority. Accessibility should be inherent within a service or a webpage, and not an add on.
- We start working on accessibility as soon as possible, ideally at the start of the project.
What's an impact you've seen when considering accessibility in your role (big or small)?
- When you get people to understand that accessible design is good design, and the benefits are shared by all.
- Talking people through barriers in a service and showing them why removing barriers will increase overall uptake, and having that validated by user research and engagement.
- Anytime a service needs to influence senior leaders, it needs to present information in an impactful way, which invariably needs to be accessible.
What are accessibility champions?
Accessibility Champions are people from across Methods who promote accessibility in our teams, across Methods employees, and on our projects. We are always learning and sharing our knowledge.