ByShannon Amos
One month into the New Year, and we’re moving into the month of love, February. We can put those January blues behind us, and start entering awards (if you haven’t already!) as the awards season starts to slowly ramp up. February is also a good time to review the remainder of the financial year’s budget…
ByShannon Amos
Kicking off 2025 in full force, we’ve been working hard throughout January, preparing for a busy year ahead. Putting the strategies in place to ensure our existing and new clients have another winning year, and creating content to share and help even more people on the road to recognition. We started the year off by…
ByShannon Amos
“I was shortlisted and a finalist in 100% of the awards that we entered. Attending the New York event of the Stevie’s Women in Business Awards with my daughter will remain one of the best experiences of my life. Thank you to everyone at August Awards.”
ByShannon Amos
We are thrilled to be partnering and supporting the 2025 BizX Awards! The prestigious BizX Awards are powered by ActionCoach the world’s #1 business coaching franchise with 25+ years of experience. The BizX Awards honour the accomplishments, achievements, values, and contributions of businesses and their owners across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa……
ByShannon Amos
We are so excited to be partnered with the Change Awards for their 2025 programme! The awards are a global celebration of change, innovation, and business transformation. They offer a prestigious platform to showcase entrants’ contributions to the ever-expanding field of change. In just 2 years, the awards have received entries from 250+ companies across…
ByShannon Amos
It’s a new year, and now is the perfect time to start planning your awards journey for 2025 if you haven’t already! Here’s your selection of awards that are open for entries and deadlining soon; UK Employee Experience Awards Since 2014, the UK Employee Experience Awards (UKEXA™) has been honouring businesses who are going the…
ByShannon Amos
As the world stepped into 2025, the King’s New Year Honours List was released. 1200 individuals, whose outstanding contributions have made a big impact on society, have been awarded. From trailblazing entrepreneurs to selfless community leaders, these recipients embody the spirit of service, innovation, and dedication in the UK. But what does it mean to…
ByShannon Amos
This Black Friday, we’re bringing you exclusive deals to help you elevate your business and personal brand by winning top business awards. Whether you’re planning for 2025 or want to boost your current strategy, our exclusive offers are here to give you a head start. Don’t miss out – these offers are only available until…
ByShannon Amos
After months of anticipation, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2024 winners were revealed at a star-studded ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday 19 November. These annual awards, dubbed ‘The Grammys of Entrepreneurship’ by Diary of a CEO Podcast Host and Entrepreneur Steven Bartlett, once again celebrated the nation’s most innovative and disruptive entrepreneurs….
ByShannon Amos
Tuesday 12 November saw the winners of the prestigious Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards crowned at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Hosted by British radio and TV presenter Anita Rani, these awards lead the way for celebrating the very best in British business. Bringing together top business leaders and innovators from all sectors and industries…
ByShannon Amos
It’s November already, and we’re quickly approaching the festive season. But before we get there, there are still plenty of awards open. And this month we’re shining the spotlight on tech awards open right now. The tech industry is fast-growing, fast moving and making a vast impact across all sectors. And awards are looking to…
ByShannon Amos
Thursday 17th October 2024 saw the latest UK Customer Experience Awards winners announced at the iconic Wembley Stadium. The UK Customer Experience Awards (UKCXA)once again set the stage to honour the most outstanding performers in customer service across a wide range of industries. From finance giants to innovative start-ups, this year’s winners have showcased exemplary…
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
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.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
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