Every year, Earth Day serves as a powerful reminder that the future of our planet is shaped by the choices we all make today. It’s easy to see sustainability as something separate from business, and out of our hands. But the reality is that businesses and organisations of every size, in every sector, can play…
We had the absolute joy of supporting and guiding two brilliant third-year work experience students from the University of Chichester, giving them first-hand experience of working in a global agency and insights to complete their dissertations. Between them they have achieved all sorts of ambitious tasks including analysing the complete customer journey, creating SEO website…
March is always an exciting (and busy!) month for the team here at August Recognition. Business awards season begins to ramp up, the financial year draws to a close, and the first quarter of the year comes to an end. And it’s a time of year for both taking action but also taking a moment…
As the new financial year gets underway, April signals the start of peak awards season. With fresh budgets, new goals, and a real sense of optimism for what the upcoming 12 months has in store, now is the time to take action as many of the major awards programmes are now open for entries and…
When most people think about building a personal brand strategy, they think about growing their visibility by posting more on social media, attending industry events and sharing their thought leader pieces online. And while all that matters, there’s a big part that’s missing: building credibility. When you have visibility without credibility, you typically lack authority,…
The Lloyds British Business Excellence Awards are open for 2026. And this year they have an exciting new media partner! ITV is the official media partner for The Lloyds British Business Excellence Awards 2026. The partnership brings with it a brand new category, the ITV Growth Accelerator Award, and the winner of this category will…
February was one of those months where the energy of recognition seemed to be everywhere. From global cultural moments to industry award ceremonies, the theme of celebrating excellence was hard to miss. Here’s a look at what we got up to last month. A Month of Celebrating Excellence February brought plenty of moments celebrating achievement…
This International Women’s Day we’re shining a spotlight on the prestigious awards programmes celebrating women’s achievements in business and entrepreneurship – particularly those founded by visionary women themselves. These award platforms don’t just recognise excellence; they create visibility, build networks, and drive meaningful change by showcasing role models who inspire the next generation of leaders….
Hello March, and hello awards season! Typically, Spring is the time all the big awards programmes open for entries, with deadlines in early Summer and then ceremonies in Autumn – and this year is no different! If you want to become an award-winning brand in 2026, the time to start entering is now! We’ve selected…
One month into the new year already, and we’re off to a strong start! January is always the perfect opportunity for a strategic reset and to set the tone for the year ahead. And this year is no different. Our focus over the last month was all about working with our clients, new and existing,…
We’re proud to be working with the UK’s largest not-for-profit counsellor training provider, Chrysalis Courses, to boost their brand awareness and industry trust. In less than 12 months, they have achieved global and industry recognition including a Stevie International Business Award and named a Finalist at the Learning Excellence Awards.
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…
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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.
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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