Celebrating 10 Years of August Recognition This year marks a monumental occasion for August Recognition as we celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary. Over the past decade we have had the privilege of working alongside ambitious businesses, partners, clients and visionary leaders – helping them achieve the recognition they deserve through strategic award success. This is…
Every year, the King’s Birthday Honours shine a light on some of the most inspiring people in our society. While media headlines often focus on household names, the reality is that the honours system is primarily about recognising ordinary people who do extraordinary things. The majority of honours awarded each year go to people who…
This week, I joined BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat to discuss some of the standout acceptance speeches from this year’s BAFTAs, and why they connected so strongly with audiences. What struck me most was not just who won, it was how they spoke about their experience and what the award means to them.
With awards season now in full swing, May promises to be an exciting month! And if you still haven’t entered that award, now really is the time. Because once you’ve missed the deadline, that’s it. You’ll have a whole year to wait to enter… and the results you have now may just be out of…
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…
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…
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…
Now in its 16th year, the UK Customer Experience Awards is one of the most highly regarded customer experience (CX) awards for both B2B and B2C businesses. We’re proud to be a partner of these awards. Year-on-year they celebrate the very best in Customer Experience, from SMEs to industry giants, and we love being along…
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,…
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…
Since January 2024, we have supported Kaizen to triumph at multiple awards, including the Ticketing Business Awards, Football Business Awards, SaaS Awards, Lloyds British Business Excellence Awards, plus Golds in the UK Customer Experience Awards, Sports Technology Awards, UK Business Tech Awards, and Stevie International Business Awards. Each achievement showcases Kaizen’s industry expertise.
From Start-ups and SMEs, to huge global organisations, most businesses will have a marketing strategy. But despite their effectiveness, awards are often overlooked when it comes to marketing. A strategic awards strategy can really help to boost your business and brand awareness, working hand-in-hand with your marketing, all at a low cost with big impact….
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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.
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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.
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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