Our Accessibility Roadmap
Accessibility
Comment from our CEO
Accessibility is not a nice to have, it's a business imperative. That's why ensuring we are an accessible organisation is a key part of our company strategy.
We believe that enabling and empowering our people, and the partners we work with, is vital - and that means everyone, regardless of whether someone has disabilities or a long-term condition and regardless of whether this is visible or invisible - every individual should find it easy to connect and contribute.
We have a clear action plan to achieve change and our aim is simple - to design accessiblity into every project and initiative from the start.
We are making progress, but we know there is still more to do. Colt's Accessibility Roadmap demonstrates our commitment to an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and where everyone has a fair chance to develop and progress.
Keri Gilder
Chief Executive Officer
Our sponsors
Accessibility makes the workplace more inviting and inclusive for people with disabilities. I believe everyone benefits when we focus on accessibility. That's why it's so important that we ensure Colt is accessible to all.
Ashish Surti
Executive Vice President - Technology & Security
We recognise the importance of making products, services, information & opportunities, accessible. The link between accessibility and wellbeing is clear and we are committed to promoting accessiblity for all our stakeholders.
Caroline Griffin Pain
General Counsel
What do we mean by accessibility?
How we built Colt's Accessibility Roadmap
In 2020, we launched our Disability Accessibility Network (DAN) to ensure that we support persons with disabilities within Colt, raise awareness and consult on matters that impact them.
Developed feedback mechanisms on our corporate website and intranet, to gain input from employees, external stakeholders and customers. Our Accessible Spaces forum was created to consult with employees on the accessibility of our physical spaces. Our facilities team (WPS), H&S, DAN & DE&I talk about how accessible our physical spaces are.
In 2022, we consulted external accessibility specialists to review our current state against best practice.
We conducted 10 hours of stakeholder interviews with people from across the business. Feedback highlighted low maturity in relation to accessibility, but outlined some quick wins and longer-term actions.
With these insights, the ESG team and other stakeholders built Optimising Accessibility - Colt's 5-year roadmap.
Optimising Accessibility at Colt
Our goal is to optimise accessibility. This is a journey for our business as we take steps to build accessibility into our Employee and Customer Experience. These are five key areas:
Strategy & Governance
Includes strategic intent, reporting, policies and building accessibility into our supply chain.
Employee Experience
Remove barriers & ensure we can support employees who need it, as well as build accessibility into recruitment, onboarding & development.
Awareness & Skills
Engage the whole business on the need for accessibility whilst building deeper accessibility skills for key teams.
Brand & Reputation
Ensuring our brand and marketing is accessible in order to remove any barriers with our key audiences and raise awareness externally.
Customer acquisition
Build out our roadmap to ensure we incorporate accessibility considerations into the customer journey.
