Build a More Accessible Built Environment
Learn how we can support you with identifying physical and environmental barriers so your workplace is more usable, inclusive, and accessible for employees, candidates, and visitors.
The built environment plays an important role in workplace accessibility. It includes the physical spaces people move through and use every day, including entrances, workstations, meeting rooms, signage, shared spaces, emergency procedures, and hybrid or remote-work setups.
Untapped Talent helps employers think through built environment accessibility with a practical, people-centred approach. Whether you are reviewing an existing location, planning a change, or trying to understand where barriers may show up, we can help your team take clearer next steps toward a more accessible workplace.
Access Our Exclusive Resource Library
Access practical resources to help your team understand inclusive design, identify barriers, plan accessibility improvements, and think through workplace usability.
These tools can help your team think through:
✓ How employees, candidates, and visitors use your physical space
✓ Where physical or systemic barriers may show up
✓ How inclusive design can support a wider range of needs
✓ How to include people with lived experience in the design and review process
✓ How to plan accessibility improvements over time
✓ What to consider before conducting an accessibility audit
Get Support with Creating an Accessible Built Environment
Have an accessibility expert from our team work with your organization to review your built environment priorities and identify practical next steps.
We can help your team think through existing barriers, workplace usability, inclusive design considerations, and how built environment accessibility connects to employee experience, retention, and participation.
Wondering which approach works best for you?
Quick Wins to Consider
Perhaps you are not looking for a full built environment review yet. Here are some quick wins we can support you with.
Built Environment Accessibility Review
Review your workplace layout, common areas, meeting spaces, entrances, signage, and employee-use areas to identify barriers and practical improvement opportunities.
Inclusive Design Planning
Support your team with applying inclusive design principles when planning renovations, office changes, new spaces, or workplace updates.
Accessibility Audit Preparation
Prepare for an accessibility audit by identifying goals, gathering internal information, setting expectations, and understanding what areas should be reviewed.
Meeting Room and Shared Space Review
Review meeting rooms, collaboration areas, reception spaces, and shared workspaces to improve usability, access, and participation.
Hybrid and Remote Work Accessibility
Review whether employees have the equipment, software, meeting practices, and flexible supports they need to participate effectively from home or hybrid work settings.
Built Environment Accessibility Action Plan
Turn findings into a practical action plan that identifies priorities, timelines, responsibilities, and next steps for improving accessibility over time.
Do you want to get your accessibility score?
Our free self-directed assessment of accessibility in employment can help your organization identify where physical, environmental, and workplace design barriers may affect participation. You can also use AccessPath to review your current practices, identify gaps, and plan next steps for building a more accessible and disability confident workplace across the employment lifecycle.
Do You Have a Quick Accessibility Question?
Register for Untapped Talent and post your question in our Accessibility Forum. The Untapped Talent community or one of our accessibility experts can help you think through built environment questions, accessibility barriers, inclusive design, and practical next steps.