Bnode's Digital Training Services
Website Accessibility Audits and Training
Do you want to be more accessible and inclusive – in terms of your website and your business operations?
We offer Accessibility Audits and deliver Accessibility Training.
In the first instance, we’ll audit and assess your existing website and make recommendations for improvement, and Bnode are your ideal partner for accessible web design and development should a completely new and fully accessible website be required. We’re specialists in inclusive web design and build.
Chris will also train you and your employees, members of staff, stakeholders or volunteers on aspects of Accessibility and inclusivity.
Enhance your brand awareness and retain or recruit more staff by showing the world that you’re an inclusive, accessible and sustainable company that’s great to work for.
The training highlighted the importance of making our digital content more accessible and gave us numerous tools to achieve this. I’ve learnt that the small changes I make have a big impact in enabling others to access our digital content. I now assess the accessibility of the documents and web content I create, and make them more accessible.
Helen Smith, Executive Team, IP Inclusive
Accessible PDFs
Make your PDF documentation more accessible with an Accessibility Audit and Review service for your PDFs from Bnode. Professional PDF Accessibility, including Section 508 and ADA Compliance.
PDF Conversion and Remediation – Lowest Rates in the Industry
Bnode’s PDF Conversion and Remediation process is streamlined to provide you and your business or organisation with a personalised approach that is cost-effective, predictable and delivered on time every time.
Different payment options are available to you, including Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly retainers.
Our Process
Document Remediation
1. Each document is processed through Adobe Acrobat’s accessibility checker and is also manually checked.
2. Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA Standards applied
3. Documents are evaluated for accessibility using Adobe Acrobat.
4. We also manually verify the Tag Structure.
5. Heading Structure applied throughout the PDF document
6. Tag Structure is also manually tested (no bots here)
7. Alt Text set for all images, charts, and graphs.
8. Table Headers for all tables
9. Link embedding and verification
10. Lists generated if required
11. Logical Reading Order manually verified
* Pricing is typically on a per-page basis but can be part of a monthly retainer package.
Chris’s training really opened my eyes to the simple everyday changes I could make when producing publicity material to make it more accessible.
Anne Burgato, Executive Team, IP Inclusive
Ethical Digital Marketing Training
Bnode offer you and your team a variety of sessions, workshops and webinars to help you improve and make the most of your digital assets and operations. Topics include Ethical SEO best practices, Blog writing, Understanding Google Analytics and Privacy, How to build landing pages that convert ethically, setting up Ethical Paid Media campaigns. The Workshops can either be held online, or in-person (UK only), and are tailored to the needs of your business or organisation. All with strong ethical values and best practices at the core.
Many of our volunteers have additional needs and are neurodivergent so the workshop that Chris did was particularly important for them.
Imogen Spencer, Future Creative Project Officer, TSL Kirklees
Inclusivity Training for You and your Team
Do you want to be more inclusive – both online and in your business, towards current team members and potential new employees?
We can help you with that too.
We hear a lot about ‘workplace culture’ these days...
With negative words like ‘toxic’ and ‘gas lighting’ used to describe that culture at some places of work because a company just isn’t up to scratch and doesn’t embrace the values that are expected in the modern workplace. High rates of sickness, lateness and staff turnover are warning signs that you don’t have the modern, inclusive workplace culture that’s expected today. If your staff don’t feel valued and supported then they’ll perform poorly, have low levels of job satisfaction, and eventually leave.
Chris Naylor is a Member of the Kirklees Council D&I Steering group and a lecturer in D&I at Kirklees College. This firsthand knowledge and experience of diversity and inclusion means that he is ideally suited to support your business or organisation with Inclusivity Training.
Enhance your brand awareness and retain or recruit more staff by showing the world that you’re an inclusive, accessible and sustainable business that’s great to work for or be part of. Nurture a workplace culture with strong values, is supportive and inclusive, and that has a focus on trust and equal treatment.
Life-changing support from a digital expert with a passion for inclusion. Chris shares my passion for accessible information and has helped me understand how tech can be used to support that aim.
Ruth Bartlett, Writer, Translator & Neuroinclusion Specialist
Sustainability Training
Sustainability Training, including:
– Social Sustainability and Accountability,
– Business Sustainability, and
– Sustainable and Ethical Business Practices.
Social Sustainability and Social Accountability – as part of ethical business practices.
Business Sustainability and Sustainability Reporting – how to demonstrate and communicate your business or organisation’s sustainability performance and impact.
Community Engagement – working and engaging with local communities and interest groups.
Chris’s training is fantastic value for money. He helped us recognise simple things we can change to improve the inclusivity and accessibility of our events, content and online comms, empowering us to take action.
Andrea Brewster, Lead Executive Officer, IP Inclusive
Internal Dev Team Coaching
Bnode offers coaching for your internal Dev Team on inclusive website design and build, accessible website development, and low carbon web technologies, platforms and coding. Improve your internal web development team’s performance, develop or enhance their skills and awareness of issues around accessibility and inclusivity, and foster a culture of employee development and growth.
B Corp Certification Support (COMING 2026)
In 2026, Bnode is aiming to become certified B Corp Trainers, enabling us to guide you through the 200-point certification process on your journey to becoming one of the greenest corporations on the planet.
I had the great privilege of being mentored by Chris during my time with the NEA, and I would gladly invest in his support again in the future. He is a kind and patient mentor who went above and beyond to answer my questions and support me through the initial stages of running my business. If you have the opportunity to work with him, I highly recommend his service!
Rebecca Matthews, Graphic Designer - Edge GD
How We Deliver the Support You Need
As a mentor, advisor, or coach for your business or organisation, via the medium that best suits your needs – whether that’s 1-2-1, webinars, virtual or face-to-face meetings within the UK – we’re here to deliver the support you need as your go-to digital marketing and business growth experts. Chris Naylor, our MD and Lead Consultant, has over 24 years of marketing and business growth experience, all of which you can access when you get in touch with us today. We’re on-hand when you need us, and you can even call on us as a resource to outsource business processes to when you don’t have the capability in-house.
Training and Workshop FAQs
It depends on whereabouts in the country you are.
If your business or organisation is based in West Yorkshire, Chris will be only too happy to deliver Training or Workshops at your site or a venue of your choice.
Otherwise, in-person training is by arrangement.
Or, training and workshops can be delivered remotely.
The average cost for training or workshop delivery remotely to a business or organisation in the is X.
Chris and Bnode have worked with diverse businesses, organisations and initiatives to deliver mentoring, training and workshops.
Chris and Bnode worked with TSL Kirklees, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, to deliver workshops.
Chris worked with the Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship Association (NEA) in West Yorkshire as part of a programme funded by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, delivering mentoring and workshop presentations.
Bnode is a Good Business Charter (GBC) Accredited small business, and believes in raising awareness of and encouraging ethical business practices within other businesses and organisations.
Chris Naylor, the MD of Bnode, has been a vocal champion of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusivity for many years.
Gaining an ethical business accreditation is an excellent way of demonstrating your good business credentials to your suppliers, customers, clients and stakeholders.
Chris will help you to communicate those values and credentials effectively, too.
We’ll work with you to audit and assess your existing website and make recommendations for improvements that you or your web developer can implement.
If a completely new and fully accessible website is required, Bnode is your ideal partner for accessible website design and development.
After the audit, Chris can also train you and your employees, members of staff, stakeholders or volunteers on the principles and best practices of accessible and low carbon websites.
Bnode will check and review your PDFs against accessibility standards.
We run each PDF document through Adobe Acrobat’s accessibility checker and the PAC3 PDF checker, as well as doing manual checks using JAWS.
Where necessary, we run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on an individual PDF.
All appropriate Structures and best practices are also applied throughout the PDF document to ensure that standards are met, including manual checks and verification.
The PDFs are then returned to you, by uploading them to our central document repository for you to download and use, along with a compliance report for the document if one is needed.
According to Acas, “Diversity is the range of people in your workforce. For example, this might mean people with different ages, religions, ethnicities, people with disabilities, and both men and women. It also means valuing those differences.”
Don’t forget that diversity also encompasses neurodiversity too.
A diverse workplace brings a wider range of perspectives and ideas into your business or organisation, leading to increased innovation and creativity.
When employees feel seen, heard, valued and included, they are more likely to be engaged and voice their opinions and ideas, be highly motivated, and more productive.
They stay longer with the business or organisation, too, as when employees have a sense of belonging and a great employee experience they don’t want / need to leave because they have true job satisfaction.
Do you want to be more inclusive – both online and in your business, towards current team members and potential new employees?
Bnode can help, through training and workshop delivery. Ideally suited to support your business or organisation with Inclusivity Training that enhances your reputation and demonstrates that you’re an inclusive business or organisation that’s great to work for or be associated with, Chris delivers training and workshops in-person and remotely.
Provide diversity and inclusion training for all employees or volunteers.
Then, after you’ve put the training into practice, focus on three key things – your policies, communication, and culture – to create a more inclusive workplace.
Address and remove any barriers that might disadvantage certain individuals or groups.
Inclusivity Training brings many benefits.
Training is a valuable tool for creating a more equal, respectful, and inclusive workplace or culture within your business, organisation or initiative.
By enhancing awareness and understanding of inclusivity, as well as practical skills, Inclusivity Training helps businesses, organisations and individuals foster a culture where everyone feels valued and included – whether they’re employees, volunteers or other stakeholders. This leads to a more productive, innovative, and positive working environment.
Ultimately, the main benefit of Inclusivity Training is that businesses and organisations with inclusive cultures are more likely to do better – meeting financial and performance targets, and have better overall business outcomes.
Chris Naylor is an expert in Training Delivery and the MD of Bnode. Chris lives and works in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where Bnode is based, and is a Member of Kirklees Council D&I Steering Group and is Business Advisor for Calderdale’s Climate Action Partnership. To arrange a chat about your training and auditing needs, contact Chris today.
Chris Naylor, Expert Trainer & MD of Bnode
Sustainable and ethical business practices and social responsibility...
– To give you a sense of purpose,
– A faster path to Low Carbon and Net Zero,
– An improved workplace culture,
– Reputational enhancement,
– Accreditation criteria compliance,
– Competitive advantage and competitor differentiation, and
– Increased efficiency and reduced operation and running costs.