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.

1. Avoid the 2025 web accessibility rush Damien Robert Convatec / damienrobertseo slideshare.com/ damvay

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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

10. MYTH 3: An overlay will do.

11. MORE MYTHS BUSTERS

12. 3 WISHES

13. WISH 1: Talk human to me

14. Maud Helena Djebril

15. WISH 2: Where to start?

16. Unlearning ABLESIM

17. WISH 3: OK, but where to start?

18. SEO & Web Accessibility: 3 parallels

19. #1 SEO is born from Web Accessibility

20. not a ranking factor, but “ being a decent human being” Garry Ilyes ISS 2023

21. no-contradiction 100% guaranteed

22. #2 AI will only simplify SEO & Web Accessibility

23. Foundations are essential

24. #3 SEO & Web Accessibility lead to revenue growth

25. Which airline apps fail blind people?

26. Community

27. 34 / shieldsjamie / danjharris

28. IAAP & Ability.net

29. Breathe. Here & Now. Tune in.

30. Avoid the 2025 web accessibility rush Damien Robert Convatec / damienrobertseo slideshare.com/ damvay