Connect with a qualified consultant with lived experiences who will provide easy to follow recommendations on ways you can improve your digital accessibility ✨
Services start at $150.
Over the last 15-years our experts have worked with private companies big and small as well as government agencies to make the digital world a more accessible place.
We're a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals and a Webflow Professional partner as well.
Our mission is to help all the websites in New Zealand reach the 20% of the population that's potentially excluded because of a disability.
👉 Around 20% of NZ's population live with a disability.
👉 According to the WCAG standards, only 2.6% of the top 1 million websites are fully accessible.
👉 Worldwide the annual disposable income by people with disabilities is $1.9 trillion.
"I feel embarrassed to admit it, but I've never thought about the functionality of our website for users with disabilities. The 20-minute audit that Julius ran provided an overview of all of the opportunities we have to improve it, making it truly accessible for everyone."
Sophie Evans
Marketing Manager Coffee Supreme
Looking for an affordable way to start the conversation at your workplace and get key insights? Get started with a user test!
Someone with both professional accessibility experience and lived experience will run through your website and record a 15-minute video where they'll cover what assistive technology sounds like, like a screen reader, show how they would navigate through your website, and share some key advice on some things y'all can improve on.
Looking for a deeper dive into accessibility that will give you clarity about the exact issues you need to solve and how to improve them?
With an accessibility audit, a key team member with both professional accessibility experience and lived experience will run through your website and access your website based on the WCAG 2.1 criteria.
They'll use a range of assistive technology to spot as many issues as possible and will prioritise it in order of ease and importance. Starts at $150 per page.
Here's an example video audit taking a look at TradeMe's registration page
Julius leads the accessibility team here at Hello Access. He has 15 years experience in digital accessibility auditing and training and is also blind.
Julius is a firm believer of showing not telling and loves to bring comedy and joy into accessibility.
He boasts a huge range of experience with both companies and government agencies.
"Akahu is for all Kiwis, so we knew that we needed specific design input to ensure broad accessibility. Steven and Julius were fast, competent, and excellent communicators of their findings. Highly recommend."
Josh Daniell
CEO at Akahu