Accessibility Collective

At Bernadette, accessibility isn’t a feature — it’s a foundation.

From UX and engineering to strategy and content, we design with difference in mind.

The Accessibility Collective is our industry award-winning initiative to explore, evolve and champion inclusive digital design — from practical tools to cultural shifts.

Grounded in real-world insight, powered by emerging tech. At Bernadette, we fuse rigorous accessibility standards with human-centred creativity — making inclusive design scalable, practical, and expressive.

• We co-create with disabled users, not just test after the fact. Every touchpoint is informed by lived experience, not just best practice.

• We use smart tools, applied thoughtfully — like AI-powered alt text generators and brand-trained tone-of-voice models — always keeping humans in the loop.

• We design for scale. Our modular, accessibility-first components can be integrated into existing platforms or launched as part of full redesigns, ensuring accessibility doesn’t get stuck behind a rebuild.

• We prioritise ethical implementation. That means representative training data, manual overrides, and user control as standard. Because accessibility without agency isn’t inclusion.

• We work to an internal UX, UI & Copy Accessibility Checklist to ensure consistency and quality across projects — covering everything from colour contrast and heading structure to interaction cues and reading level.

• We align with WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) up to AAA level, wherever possible — helping clients meet legal, ethical, and human standards for inclusion.

Whether you’re rethinking your content structure, planning your next platform build, or just looking for a fresh perspective — we’d love to hear from you.