Kent Digital Accessibility Virtual Supplier Showcase

The University of Kent and Kent Connects held its 3rd Digital Accessibility Conference to learn more about the growing field of digital accessibility on Wednesday 16th June, which was attended by 900 delegates and some renowned suppliers in the field of digital accessibility. 

See below for a some products and services which may help your organisation with your digital accessibility compliance journey.

Getting started in digital accessibility is a big task. You need a good understanding of technical issues alongside a good grasp of teaching, learning and the soft skills of culture change.

By combining the experiences of AbilityNet and Alistair McNaught Consultancy, we’ve developed education-focused frameworks to help you locate where you are currently, identify priorities and measure progress. 

Most importantly, we can support you in supporting yourself in sustainable progress.

Join James Church (Kent County Council Digital Accessibility Lead) and Ben Watson (University of Kent Accessibility Lead) for an attendee driven general discussion and Q&A about all things digital accessibility.  

We are All Able, a consulting company committed to using our expertise to help public sector organisations. Our specialist knowledge in the delivery of accessibility will help you build services that remove barriers for staff and citizens to provide work and community environments that accept everyone, regardless of ability or disablement.  

Brickfield Education Labs help organisations improve the quality of online courses by finding, fixing, and futureproofing content accessibility.

Our Toolkit evaluates course content for accessibility issues and provides tools to update missing text for links and image descriptions.

Students can generate accessible formats of file resources, including Audio, ePub and Electronic Braille.

Claro Writing Helper helps you organise your written assignments, like essays, reports or dissertations. It will guide you through a linear, structured approach starting with an assignment question and a deadline, and ending with your essay in Word format.

codemantra is a global leader in Intelligent Document Processing, with customers in the public sector, NGOs, financial institutions and publishing. Its AI-powered platforms automate digital document accessibility compliance, capture and extract actionable insights from raw data, and transform any document into any desired digital format.

codemantra is a member of the W3C accessibility advisory board and its award-winning accessibilityInsight platform and tools have aided US and UK state and local government and higher education institutions to comply with Section 508 and PSBAR.

SensusAccess® is an automated document conversion service that transforms educational material into accessible formats and alternate media. This includes Braille, MP3, DAISY and E-books in 25+ languages. 

SensusAccess converts inaccessible documents to better accessible formats including Math. SensusAccess integrates with VLEs as LTI plug-ins. The service is inexpensive and easy to use.

Smarter Digital Services work closely with public sector partners, inspiring and empowering teams to develop and deliver excellent user focused digital services.

We can help with accessibility by: carrying out high-level accessibility audits; user testing websites; providing training on accessible content and online documents, remediating troublesome PDFs; and much more.