GAC Accessibility Advisory Counsel™
Your ongoing accessibility partner.
Accessibility questions do not occur once a year. They arise during construction, renovation, procurement, hiring, accommodation, technology implementation, customer service, policy development, emergency planning, organizational change, and everyday operations.
Ongoing Access to Multidisciplinary Expertise
GAC Accessibility Advisory Counsel™ provides organizations with ongoing access to multidisciplinary accessibility expertise without requiring every question to become a separate consulting engagement.
Rather than creating a new consulting engagement every time an accessibility question arises, organizations can establish an ongoing relationship with GAC.
GAC becomes an external accessibility resource for leadership and organizational teams.
Advisory Counsel May Support
Proactive Rather Than Reactive
The purpose of Accessibility Advisory Counsel is to involve accessibility expertise before barriers are created.
- Before the building is constructed.
- Before the renovation is approved.
- Before the technology is purchased.
- Before the website launches.
- Before the RFP is issued.
- Before the policy is finalized.
- Before the accommodation conversation breaks down.
- Before the customer encounters the barrier.
How the Relationship Works
GAC Accessibility Advisory Counsel is an ongoing annual advisory relationship with monthly engagement options appropriate to the size, complexity, and accessibility needs of the organization.
Accessibility Advisory
For organizations needing ongoing access to GAC expertise.
Enterprise Accessibility Advisory
For larger organizations with accessibility needs spanning multiple departments, facilities, systems, or locations.
Strategic Accessibility Partnership
For organizations seeking GAC as an ongoing accessibility partner across strategy, implementation, measurement, training, and organizational improvement.
Large assessments, major audits, extensive architectural reviews, large training programs, mediation, extensive travel, or major implementation projects may require separate scopes of work.
An External Accessibility Center of Excellence
For organizations without a comprehensive internal accessibility team, GAC can function as an External Accessibility Center of Excellence — bringing multidisciplinary accessibility expertise together so organizations do not have to independently locate specialists every time an accessibility question arises.
GAC does not replace licensed legal, architectural, engineering, medical, or other regulated professional services where those services are required.
GAC May Work Alongside
- Internal accessibility teams
- Legal counsel
- Architects
- Engineers
- HR professionals
- Technology teams
- Sustainability professionals
- Facilities teams
- Procurement
- Customer-experience teams
- Other professional advisors
Annual Accessibility Cycle
Where appropriate, Advisory Counsel relationships may incorporate a continuous improvement cycle — creating continuity and helping organizations move from reactive accessibility management toward ongoing accessibility improvement.
Who can we call when accessibility questions arise?
Explore an Accessibility Advisory Partnership
GAC Accessibility Advisory Counsel™ is structured to fit your organization's scale, pace, and priorities. Contact us to discuss what an ongoing advisory relationship could look like.