About us
Tilting the Lens is a global strategic accessibility consultancy built on the pillars of education, advocacy, and design. Our process is rooted in the lived experience and expertise of our majority-disabled team based across Europe.
Our driving mission
Tilting the Lens works with disabled people, civil society, the public and civil service, and the private sector to move beyond compliance and transform systems through a lens of accessibility.
We work with leading global brands like Chanel, Ford Foundation, Pinterest, AIB, British Vogue, and Parsons School of Design.
In every room, we always ask “is this accessible?”, and then create bespoke solutions. Our work chips away at the systemic barriers that exist, but it takes time, commitment, accountability and resources. We want to create the conditions, organisational cultures, and behaviours to make industries more accessible and fair.
Learn more about our approach.
Highlights from 2024
18 industries
We expanded our client base across 9 countries in 2024.
535 opportunities
Over €69,000 worth of opportunities were created for disabled people in our work and partnerships.
22 countries
We doubled the number of focus group sessions with disabled research participants from 22 countries.
1,000 students
We reached primary, secondary, and university pupils across the UK, Ireland, and the US.
Our foundational pillars
We support organisations to drive accessibility and inclusion from short-term needs to system change. We do this through our three foundational pillars.
Pillar 1: Education
Education appears in our strategy through deliberate engagements in schools and academic settings, but also through our trainings, webinars and public engagements.
We believe that “we don’t know what we don’t know”, and the need for disability and accessibility education is continuous and evolving. We encourage our partners, clients and suppliers to approach their work with the same curiosity, creativity and vulnerability.
Pillar 2: Advocacy
We engage in public activities like media appearances, lectures, speaking events, mentoring, and campaigning to advocate for systemic change.
Additionally, we use our own communication channels to elevate the voices of disabled people, through webinars, open-sourcing of tools and research, and commissioning creatives and writers.
Pillar 3: Design
We describe design as both a tangible process – the design of a product or building – but also the design of a programme, a strategy, or a mindset.
We believe that solutions must be designed with disabled people, not for disabled people. We believe in the principles and innovation opportunity of universal design to create a more equitable world for everyone.
Meet the Tilting the Lens team
At Tilting the Lens, we are a disability-owned company with a majority-disabled team. Our remote team works to create meaningful and measurable change, through a lens of accessibility.
Our certifications
Living Wage Employer
We are a certified Living Wage employer (UK).
DOBE™ certified
We are a Disability-led organisation, and DOBE™ certified – Disability Owned and Operated Business Enterprise.