Convince Your Clients of Accessibility: Arguments and Business Cases

Many agencies want to do right by disabled people. They want to make their clients' websites accessible. Because, why wouldn't you? And sure, many things you can do without even notifying your client. Have accessible building blocks, implement them in designs or code when the time is there to update anyway, only the people who need it will notice. Right? Wrong. Clients will find out, and they will confront you about it. And if you want to go even further? Oh no, the costs! The knowledge! The energy! It can be a struggle to convince your client to put in the effort and also conform to any regulation, like Section 508, the EU Accessibility Act, or otherwise.

Drawing from her own experience with "difficult" clients and some basic psychology, Annelies will provide you with compelling arguments and advice on how to make a business case (even if you really don't want to go there).

Thank you to our sponsors:

• Live captions: Kinsta
• Organizer and post-event transcription: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
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Event Details:
This meetup will be held at 11 AM Eastern via Zoom webinars.

Registration on Zoom is required to attend. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8217550929008/WN_pFsYqJqrTJyG5lvYe8xdog

Accessibility & Accommodations:
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned.

Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.

We're working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.

All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact an organizer, and we will try our best to accommodate you.

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