9 Years, Thousands of Entries, and One Winning Formula that WORKS Nine years ago, I founded August Recognition with one goal: to help great brands and people win valuable recognition that helps them to achieve their goals. Since then, we’ve crafted thousands of entries, and supported hundreds of entrants across every industry you can imagine….
Every week, I hear from businesses who’ve received a mysterious email or Direct Message on social media, telling them they’ve “won” an award or been “rated one of the top providers” in their industry. It sounds flattering, but here’s the reality: you haven’t entered anything, you haven’t been judged by an expert panel, and you…
The Learning Awards are open for entries! The awards recognise innovation and achievements in workplace learning from organisations across the globe. They receive hundreds of entries every year, in 2023 the awards received entries from 56 countries. Celebrating their 30th year, the Learning Awards have continually adapted to align with significant trends in L&D, and…
Why this prestigious recognition can transform your business growth, credibility, and future. Why Do the King’s Awards Matter So Much? It’s not just another business award.It’s a mark of excellence from the King, and a seal of approval reserved only for the most outstanding UK organisations. The King’s Awards for Enterprise are among the most…
Exciting News for the August Team and Awards Season is Officially Open! March signals the end of the financial year, the start of Spring, and the start of awards season. But for the August team, there was a lot more to celebrate! March was a special month for our Content and Communications Manager Shannon, who…
Sodexo Growth Academy delivers exceptional international training programmes, helping employees develop the skills they need to succeed. In 2024, they wanted to celebrate their success so far and keep building on this for future growth. One way to reflect on their journey and set new benchmarks for even greater growth was to recognise their international…
Whether you’re a business owner, a self-employed marketer, or a professional wanting to grow your career, creating a strong presence is important to gain opportunities. You can do this through personal branding. What is it? Personal branding is portraying yourself how you want others to view you. Just like when you see businesses with a…
It’s a startling statistic: men are 80% more likely to nominate themselves than women, whether it’s for a job, a promotion, or an award. This disparity highlights a pervasive issue where women often hesitate to put themselves forward. For reasons including, waiting for the perfect moment, or feeling they don’t quite meet all the criteria….
The Princess Royal Training Awards are open for 2025! The awards recognise excellence in workplace learning and development. They are free to enter and encourage nominations from employers in the UK and Ireland who can show they are investing in their people’s training and improving their people and organisational performance. The closing date for nominations…
How well do you know your customers? And how well do they know you? These are some of the questions that awards judges want to know when you’re entering customer experience awards. And that’s because winning an award for your customer experience has become one of the fastest and most effective ways to build your…
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…
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….
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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
Help–Display a list of available voice commands
Hide help–Hide a list of available voice commands
Scroll down–Scroll page down 200 px
Scroll up–Scroll page down 200 px
Go to top–Scroll page to top
Go to bottom–Scroll page to bottom
Tab–Move to next interactive element
Tab back–Move to previous interactive element
Show numbers–Show numbers for interactive elements
Number ... –Click on element number...
Hide numbers–Hide numbers for interactive elements
Clear input–Clear selected text field
Enter–Click on the selected element
Reload–Reload page
Stop–Stop speech recognition
Exit–Disable voice navigation mode