Avoid the 2025 web accessibility rush: do not fear WCAG compliance

Learn about the EU Disability Act of 2025 and why making your website accessible is now urgent. Damien’s talk is not just about avoiding penalties but enhancing audience engagement and increasing revenue. He’ll provide easy steps make your website more accessible and user-friendly from today and share insights from his lived experience in a FTSE100 company that decided to prioritise web accessibility.

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1. Avoid the 2025 web accessibility rush Damien Robert Convatec
5. 3 MYTHS
6. MYTH 1: Web Accessibility is optional
7. European Accessibility Act 28 June 2025
8. EAA = ADA = Equality Act = JIS = WCAG 2.1 AA https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
9. MYTH 2: All about image alt text optimisation
11. MYTH 3: An overlay will do.
13. MORE MYTHS BUSTERS
14. 3 WISHES
15. WISH 1: Talk human to me
18. WISH 2: Where to start?
19. Unlearning ABLESIM
20. WISH 3: OK, but where to start?
22. SEO & Web Accessibility: 3 parallels
23. #1 SEO is born from Web Accessibility
25. “not a ranking factor, being a decent human being” Garry Ilyes ISS 2023
26. no-contradiction 100% guaranteed
27. #2 AI will only simplify SEO & Web Accessibility
29. Foundations are essential
30. #3 SEO & Web Accessibility lead to revenue growth
33. Assistive Tech uncovers SEO bugs
34. Community
35. /shieldsjamie /danjharris
36. IAAP & Ability.net
37. Breathe. Here & Now. Tune in.
38. Avoid the 2025 web accessibility rush Damien Robert Convatec /damienrobertseo slideshare.com/damvay