Digital Accessibility
This is one way to make a video accessible.
What is adding captions or providing audio descriptions?
The person to contact if EY professionals with disabilities, including physical and mental health conditions, may need an accommodation.
Who is your Talent Consultant?
This is one way to help participants who are off-site, blind/low vision, or who don't know you during a meeting.
What is identifying yourself before speaking.
This BRG is focused on enabling people of all abilities to do their best work so we can maintain the highest-performing teams.
What is the Abilities Business Resource Group?
One way to automatically test the accessibility of a Microsoft document.
What is use the included Accessibility Checker?
This program consists of short and long-term options to provide salary continuation should you become disabled or are unable to work because of a medically certified illness or injury.
What is the EY Disability Program?
Enabling this during a Teams meeting can help non-native English speakers and also individuals who may be hard of hearing.
What is turning on captions?
This community brings together neurodivergent professionals and allies from around the world for regular peer support, knowledge sharing, and to advocate for neuro-inclusion at EY and beyond.
What is EY's Global Neurodiversity Community?
This is one way to make content in PowerPoint accessible to users who are color blind.
Use a color contrast checker and make sure the colors used meet the required contrast ratio.
These tools can be found in the Self Service Portal and can be requested to make it easier for an individual with or without disabilities to complete everyday work tasks and can include tools like Dragon, Fusion, Ghotit, and Read & Write.
What are assistive technologies?
This is best practice when showing charts and graphs during a presentation to help individuals with low / no vision.
What is describing meaningful graphics in general terms or summarizing findings?
This BRG is focused on creating a culture of awareness, support, mentoring, networking and advocacy for all families throughout their life’s journey.
What is Today's Families Community?
These are three ways to make your PowerPoint digitally accessible.
What is adding alt text to images, no duplicate slide titles, captions for videos, use simple (not complex) tables, check table header row, check reading order, name hyperlinks appropriately, appropriate color contrast, fill in document properties, or use content placeholders (not text boxes)?
This site has a plethora of resources available to create a more inclusive EY environment.
What is the Abilities SharePoint site?
This can be helpful to do in advance of a meeting in order to allow participants time to prepare and process the goals of a meeting.
What is sending out the agenda in advance?
This group provides tactical and strategic accessibility support for EY Technology, Learning, BMC, Procurement, Legal, Service Line Engagement Teams, and other enterprise functions.
What is the Accessibility Center of Excellence (ACE)?
Something that you can do to make tables accessible.
What is use <th> for table headers, avoid merged cells and empty cells, and give tables a unique table name?
This tool is provided as a service to all EY people and provides up to 25 no-cost confidential sessions per year with a mental health coach or therapist.
What is Lyra Health (can also be accessed through EY Assist)?
This can help meeting organizers understand potential needs of the participants in advance, either dietary, physical space, assistive technology, etc.
What is asking about potential accommodations?
This is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. It partners with leading companies and drives progress through initiatives, tools, and expertise that deliver long-term business impact. EY Abilities team members across the US attend their conference annually.
What is Disability:IN?