What will AAS do?

The Accessibility Accreditation Scheme will:

• Help to educate people that are learning about usability and accessibility
• Provide a reference point to compare progress of skills development
• Allow a comparison with the average performance of the market in general
• Benchmark industry performance
• Encourage (foster) the raising of industry standards through comparison to a benchmark
• Stimulate people to get on the journey of usability and accessibility whereby both roads lead to human centred design
• Provide a sustainable route for firms to win and deliver quality assured results
• Provide a path to assured procurement by identifying those firms that have the skill and ability required to produce technology that complies with accessibility guidelines
• Distinguish firms that 'can' from those that falsely make the claim, allowing accredited firms to bid with justifiable self-assurance that the competition to win is fair
• Elevate the position of the UK digital economy.