How do we work out the environmental savings from accessibility?

We know that using devices for longer can reduce the amount e-waste the world generates, but how much can it help?

In this talk, we'll take a look how we can quantify the environmental savings from supporting a wider range of devices with the digital services we design and operate.

We'll look at the approach used by peer reviewed papers on induced hardware upgrades, and see how they track obscelence through user data, to see which techniques we can apply to our own work.

In addition, we'll also look at a few high profile examples of companies ending support for older devices, or requiring beefier minimum spec hardware to help understand the environmental impact of these decisions.

Finally, we'll conclude with a tour of the policy changes and dataset releases in different parts of the world, that show signs of a way forward out of this mess. These will be useful to people looking to refer to new laws being passed and new data to when making the argument for both accessibility and sustainability in the workplace.