Accessibility consultancy
Accessibility Consultant
Through accessibility audits, internal workshops or presentations, or working directly on design problems inside a company’s design library I help businesses reach wider audiences, strengthen brand reputation and comply with legal guidelines.
“Dean has done great work supporting our Design System by helping us to have accessible components. Besides that he also helped to increase the knowledge of the design team and the entire product team by doing workshops, creating accessible design solutions and supporting the team in general.” — Luiza Breier, Product owner, KLM
Experienced Accessibility Consultant who can:
- audit products to locate the issues and advise Product, Design and Engineering teams
- create or advise on components to ensure that the Design Library outputs compliant solutions
- create tailored workshops focused on increasing the internal knowledge of Designers and Copywriters
- act as a coach for Designers, Copywriters, Developers, QA and Product owners
- help ensure that every feature delivered by the organisation encapsulates all the information needed to build an accessible experience
- bring accessibility from the backlog to become a requirement in the ‘definition of done’
- collaborate with the business to identify strategies to implement long term accessible solutions
- collaborate with people with disabilities to learn how to remove barriers within the product(s)
Services include:
- Accessibility auditing
- Design systems accessibility
- Training
- Usability testing with persons with disabilities
- Selling Accessibility into the organisation
Contact and availability:
I am available for projects in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the surrounding region. I am available for remote projects that work asynchronously.
Contact: dean@deanbirkett.name
