Category: Accessibility

9 June 2025

How to make your Social Media accounts accessible

By Talia Morse   With the rise of the use of so many new social media and networking sites, all offering different features, we’ve written an updated guide to making your posts online as accessible as they can be for everyone! We will take a look at the accessibility side of some key features such …

19 May 2025

What people think about AI in the Accessibility Industry

A few months ago, we asked our customers and consumers to share their views on Artificial Intelligence in relation to accessibility. We were keen to understand how the impact of AI is perceived and if people have already taken it on board. So let’s dive in and see what our respondents answered on this very …

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27 March 2025

Inclusivity Benefits – Why you should make your information accessible

We hear the terms ‘inclusivity’ and ‘accessibility’ a lot these days, but what is that all about? ‘Inclusivity’ means including all types of people, things or ideas and treating them all fairly and equally. Including the disabled community is a big part of being inclusive. Whereas ‘accessibility’ is the quality of being able to be reached. …

Nathan Anderson

18 March 2025

How to include disabled people in your marketing

From a marketing perspective, it’s essential to market your services appropriately and to think about how your content is received by people with disabilities. And this is true regardless of which market you operate in; ensuring your audience can access your content is absolutely key. According to Purple Tuesday, 1.8 billion disabled people in the …

Sharon Waldron

27 January 2025

Top tips: employing someone with a disability

In this article we’ll explain what you need to know about employing someone with a disability, as well as tell you about personal experience from both the employer’s and employee’s points of view. A2i has experience of working with people with disabilities for many years, and so we’ve summarised the main things you need to …

Susie (employer) has a print booklet, Dave (employee) is reading a Braille booklet. They are at a meeting table.

20 January 2025

How to make your e-text documents and Accessible PDF’s accessible

What does accessibility mean and why is it important? Accessibility simply refers to how user-friendly something is. If your document is accessible this means it can be read and understood by everyone. Different formats are accessible for different reasons and to people with varying disabilities. For individuals who are blind or have a visual impairment, …

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19 December 2024

Looking Ahead: A2i’s Vision for the Future

Our Director, Susie Fisher, tells us about her vision for the company’s future, and how she plans to continue innovating and growing over the next 25 years.   25 years of A2i As we come to the end of 2024 and I look back over a year of celebrations and 25 years in business, it’s …

Susie Fisher

2 December 2024

Unravelling A2i’s guiding principles

By Susie Fisher, Director     People often ask me how we’ve created such a good atmosphere at A2i, and why our employee retention is so high. I think it all started with our first employee. When I hired our first employee many years ago, I realised it was important to establish A2i’s company culture. …

Susie and several A2i team members exchanging ideas and smiling in a meeting.

21 October 2024

A2i’s new staff member – Introducing Rick

Rick (short for Richard) joined A2i in October 2023. He moved to Bristol from Southampton, having previously lived in Sevilla, Spain for three years. In just this short time, Rick has become proficient in audio, Large Print and reading Braille and is currently working towards his first Braille literacy qualification, to further develop his knowledge …

Rick, sitting in a park, smiling. Rick has black hair, a moustache and a small beard, and he's wearing a pale green jumper.

19 July 2024

How has technology improved accessibility over the last 25 years?

At A2i we’re celebrating our 25th birthday so we’re looking back at how accessibility and technology have changed over the last 25 years. From mobile phones to AAC devices, we want to talk about how modern technology has improved accessibility for disabled people. In 1999, as the millennium approached, there was a sense of society …

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