ByDonna O'Toole
2024, what a year! In just 366 days in this rollercoaster of a leap year, we’ve all experienced the ups and downs of world news…including, a new UK Government, a US Presidential Race, Taylor Swift’s Eras tour breaking records, the Paris Olympics, and the England Men’s football team making it to the finals of the…
ByDonna O'Toole
November is typically packed full of awards ceremonies, and this year was no exception! Our team attended two of the most prestigious British business awards, the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards and Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Where we got to celebrate client wins in rooms packed with the country’s leading businesses, entrepreneurs and leaders….
ByDonna O'Toole
As we entered Autumn, we got the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate a busy Q2 in our quarterly meeting at the beginning of the month. Including our Content and Communications Manager, Shannon, celebrating 7 years at August Recognition! We also kicked off the Awards season in October with the Customer Experience Awards, which saw…
ByDonna O'Toole
Are you off to an awards ceremony over the next few weeks? Is it your first time at an awards event? Are you planning what to wear on the big night? Fear not… we’re here to ensure you rock up feeling confident on your big night. Follow our helpful tips and you might even steal…
ByDonna O'Toole
One of the aspects that drives me most about being a business leader, and delivering recognition services, is having the ability to use our platform to help others. We invited Abigail Tappenden from a local charity, the Children’s Respite Trust, to join our Awards Accelerator – a unique recognition training programme that gives you the…
ByDonna O'Toole
The UK Employee Experience Awards 2025 are open for entries! This is the premier celebration of EX excellence across the UK, with the objective of giving winners the recognition, learning and networking opportunities they deserve – all in a safe, fair and transparent way. Why enter the UK Employee Experience Awards? The UK Employee Experience…
ByDonna O'Toole
Personal branding has become a vital tool for professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives. It’s how you can continue to grow and find opportunities in this digital age. A way to create your personal brand is through a well-thought-out strategy, but what exactly is a personal branding strategy? Read on to find out. What is personal branding?…
ByDonna O'Toole
Entering an award is an exciting opportunity to showcase your achievements, share your story, and gain recognition for your hard work. However, award entries can seem daunting, especially if it’s your first time entering. To help you write an awards entry that stands out, we’ve compiled a set of essential tips. Choose the right award…
ByDonna O'Toole
When entering awards, the strength of your evidence can make or break your chances of winning. From being recognised for your corporate social responsibility to gunning for entrepreneur of the year, presenting compelling, well-documented evidence is important for winning over the judges. Here’s what evidence you might need for your award submission. Why is evidence…
ByDonna O'Toole
If you’ve recently achieved something huge within your business, it’s time to shout about it and get some recognition for your hard work. Business awards offer you the opportunity to showcase your success, validate your efforts, and boost your company’s profile. But how do you win? In this blog, we’ll share the tips you need…
ByDonna O'Toole
Yes, awards are nice to win and give you something to brag about to your peers. But that’s not all. Winning awards comes with a host of incredible benefits for your business and your employees. That’s why it’s important to develop an awards strategy to help you boost your chances of winning and take advantage…
ByDonna O'Toole
Imagine this: You’re about to embark on a ‘working holiday’ to a stunning island, where the sea is crystal clear, and the skies are a bright, inviting blue. The sun shines brilliantly, and the fresh sea air clears your mind, setting the perfect stage for productivity and relaxation. On this idyllic island, everyone already knows…
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to