Breaking the Blueprint

The $247bn Market You're Missing


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Accessibility is still treated as a specialist topic in many organisations. Something niche. Something optional. Something to deal with later. In this episode of Breaking the Blueprint, that thinking is challenged head-on.

The conversation explores how businesses quietly exclude up to a quarter of the market, not through intent, but through the environments, systems, and services they design every day. From physical spaces to digital journeys, accessibility failures show up as anxiety, silent workarounds, and lost loyalty that never appears in dashboards or reports.

Using real examples from travel, retail, workplaces, and service design, the episode reframes disability through the social model. The issue is rarely the individual. More often, it is the environment that disables people. That shift changes how leaders think about customer experience, employee experience, and commercial decision-making.

The discussion also looks at the role of data, AI, and voice technology. Not as silver bullets, but as enablers that only work when empathy, training, and leadership alignment come first. Technology can remove friction, but it cannot replace dignity.

This episode is for leaders, designers, and decision-makers who want to build organisations that genuinely work for people. Not because regulation demands it, but because better experiences create better businesses.

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Breaking the BlueprintBy Iqbal Javaid & Vinay Parmar