BTAT was created because the technology which should liberate talent and productivity makes it unnecessarily difficult to recruit and retain good employees, and to do business with millions of disabled and older customers.
The Business Taskforce on Accessible Technology (BTAT) is an EFD gold member initiative which brings together some of the world's largest procurers and suppliers of ICT including: BBC, Department for Work & Pensions, GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft. Member organisations have, at Chief Information/Technology Officer level publicly committed to enhancing the accessibility performance of their business and industry through the work of BTAT. Click on this link to find out more about members of the taskforce.
BTAT's vision is to make accessibility and usability as fundamental to ICT as security is now.
The taskforce is chaired by Steve Lamey, Commissioner and Director General for HM Revenue & Customs and Susan Scott-Parker, Chief Executive Officer, Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD).
BTAT members have defined best practice for accessibility in business so that internal systems and external services enable rather than exclude disabled people.
The BTAT toolkit will help organisations to understand and measure accessibility performance before making an informed choice about focus areas and objectives for accessibility. Using the expertise of members from the ICT sector, the taskforce is now setting the standard for the procurement of accessible technology in a global arena.
