{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "EaseAccess24 News & Press", "home_page_url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/", "feed_url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/feed.json", "description": "Company news, events, partnerships, and media coverage from EaseAccess24.", "language": "en", "icon": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/favicon.ico", "items": [ { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/vivatech-2026-tech-for-change-award/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/vivatech-2026-tech-for-change-award/", "title": "EaseAccess24 receives the VivaTech 2026 Tech for Change Award ahead of Paris showcase", "summary": "EaseAccess24 was recognized with the VivaTech 2026 Tech for Change Award for placing digital inclusivity at the center of its business model ahead of its trip to Paris.", "content_text": "EaseAccess24 has been named a recipient of the VivaTech 2026 Tech for Change Award ahead of this year''s conference in Paris.\n\nThe award is given to startups that place measurable positive impact at the core of how they operate. In our case, that recognition speaks directly to the mission behind EaseAccess24: making the internet more usable, more inclusive, and more open to people who are still excluded by inaccessible digital design.\n\nAwards do not change the work, but they do confirm that accessibility belongs inside the main innovation conversation. Too often it is treated as an afterthought, a compliance checkbox, or a specialist concern. We see it as a fundamental layer of digital product quality.\n\nThis recognition gives extra weight to our upcoming VivaTech presence and strengthens our resolve to keep building tools that combine accessibility, practical implementation, and measurable business value.\n\nWe are proud of the recognition and even more focused on what comes next in Paris.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/vivatech-2026-tech-for-change-award/01-award.jpg", "date_published": "2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Event", "Paris", "France" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/swedish-macedonian-business-forum-2026-stockholm/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/swedish-macedonian-business-forum-2026-stockholm/", "title": "EaseAccess24's Filip Najdovski speaks at the Swedish-Macedonian Business Forum 2026 in Stockholm", "summary": "Filip Najdovski represented EaseAccess24 on a panel at the Swedish-Macedonian Business Forum 2026, discussing cross-border entrepreneurship and building between Sweden and North Macedonia.", "content_text": "On 26 May 2026, Filip Najdovski represented EaseAccess24 as a panelist at the Swedish-Macedonian Business Forum 2026 in Stockholm, an event hosted by the Swedish-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce and Macedonia2025.\n\nThe forum brought together founders, executives, and professionals working between Sweden and North Macedonia. For us, it was less about presenting a polished story and more about contributing to an honest conversation about what it takes to build across two markets with different languages, expectations, and business rhythms.\n\nFilip spoke from the perspective of a young founder building in that in-between space. He shared why cross-border work demands listening before pitching, why diaspora networks matter in practice, and why long-term trust is often the real infrastructure behind international growth.\n\nThese are exactly the kinds of rooms that matter for EaseAccess24. Our work sits at the intersection of inclusion, business, and technology, and forums like this create space for those conversations to happen with people who understand both sides of the bridge.\n\nWe are grateful to the organisers, the audience, and everyone who continued the discussion after the panel. The momentum around Swedish-Macedonian collaboration is real, and we are glad to be part of it.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/swedish-macedonian-business-forum-2026-stockholm/02-forum.jpg", "date_published": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Speaking", "Stockholm", "Sweden" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/esade-accessibility-content-marketing-guest-lecture/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/esade-accessibility-content-marketing-guest-lecture/", "title": "EaseAccess24 brings accessibility into Esade's content marketing curriculum", "summary": "Leonardo Zmajshek presented EaseAccess24's accessibility work during an Esade content marketing lecture, using real examples to show how inaccessible design excludes users online.", "content_text": "Leonardo Zmajshek brought EaseAccess24 into the classroom at Esade after being invited to present the accessibility segment of a Content Marketing lecture by professor Martina Pocchiari.\n\nInstead of treating accessibility as a side note, the session used live examples to show how digital exclusion actually works. Slides on color blindness, contrast, and inaccessible content made the problem immediately tangible for students who may otherwise only encounter the topic in theory.\n\nThat approach matters. Accessibility often becomes real only when people can see the gap between what a designer intended and what a user can actually perceive or operate. Once that gap is visible, it changes how people think about digital communication.\n\nWhat makes this especially important is that the lecture was part of a mandatory course, not an optional extra. That is how meaningful change happens: when accessibility enters the core curriculum for future marketers, product teams, and communicators.\n\nWe are grateful to Martina Pocchiari and Esade for making space for this conversation and for treating accessibility as part of modern marketing education.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/esade-accessibility-content-marketing-guest-lecture/01-lecture.jpg", "date_published": "2026-04-27T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Speaking", "Barcelona", "Spain" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/telma-digital-accessibility-social-inclusion-coverage/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/telma-digital-accessibility-social-inclusion-coverage/", "title": "Telma covers the \"Digital Accessibility and Social Inclusion\" project ahead of North Macedonia's digital access law", "summary": "National broadcaster Telma highlighted the \"Digital Accessibility and Social Inclusion\" project and the need for public websites to prepare for North Macedonia's upcoming digital accessibility requirements.", "content_text": "National broadcaster Telma covered the \"Digital Accessibility and Social Inclusion\" project on 25 March 2026, bringing the conversation about web accessibility to a much wider audience in North Macedonia.\n\nThe report focused on the people who are still blocked by inaccessible public websites every day, including blind and low-vision users, people who rely on screen readers, and people with limited motor control. Framing those barriers in mainstream media matters because it shifts accessibility from a technical niche into a public-interest issue.\n\nTelma also highlighted the project as preparation for the country''s upcoming digital access requirements. That context is important: institutions and organisations need time, knowledge, and practical support to improve digital services before legal expectations become enforcement realities.\n\nFor EaseAccess24, coverage like this helps move the conversation in the right direction. Accessibility is not only about compliance. It is about participation, dignity, and whether people can fully take part in digital life.\n\nWe welcome the attention Telma gave to the issue and the role media can play in accelerating digital inclusion.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/telma-digital-accessibility-social-inclusion-coverage/01-coverage.jpg", "date_published": "2026-03-25T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Media", "Skopje", "North Macedonia" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/fce-skopje-digital-accessibility-panel/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/fce-skopje-digital-accessibility-panel/", "title": "EaseAccess24 joins panel on digital accessibility at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje", "summary": "Filip Najdovski and Petar Hristovski represented EaseAccess24 at an FCE Skopje panel on digital accessibility and North Macedonia's upcoming Digital Accessibility Law.", "content_text": "On 25 March 2026, our Co-Founder Filip Najdovski and Full-Stack Developer Petar Hristovski joined a panel discussion at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje, as part of the academic project \"Digital Accessibility and Social Inclusion\", representing EaseAccess24 as industry experts.\n\nThe event was organised under the leadership of Prof. Sasho Gramatikov and brought together accessibility practitioners, academic researchers, and international experts to discuss inclusive digital design and North Macedonia's upcoming Digital Accessibility Law, set to come into force on 1 July 2026.\n\nFilip and Petar spoke about the practical realities of web accessibility: what it actually means to build for it, why most websites still fall short at a structural level, and what developers can do today.\n\n\"A lot of those pages are not accessible in their very structure. The HTML structure of the website has a certain semantics, a certain structure that needs to be built correctly for a screen reader to be able to navigate it.\"\nPetar Hristovski\n\n\"People with disabilities need assistive technologies to participate in that world. And we are, in a way, the bridge that connects digital assistive technologies with websites.\"\nFilip Najdovski\n\nThe room was engaged, the questions were real, and the energy was exactly what we hope to see more of. Accessibility is gaining ground in the Macedonian academic community, and that matters because the next generation of developers is forming its assumptions right now.\n\nThe event was also covered by Telma, one of North Macedonia's major television and news outlets.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/fce-skopje-digital-accessibility-panel/01-panel.jpeg", "date_published": "2026-03-25T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Event", "Skopje", "North Macedonia" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/rome-tor-vergata-guest-lecture/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/rome-tor-vergata-guest-lecture/", "title": "EaseAccess24 Co-Founder Filip Najdovski holds guest lecture on accessibility at the University of Rome Tor Vergata", "summary": "Filip Najdovski guest-lectured on digital accessibility, consumer inclusion, and the business case for WCAG compliance at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.", "content_text": "Our Co-Founder and Deputy CEO Filip Najdovski travelled to Rome to join a Consumer Choices course at the University of Rome Tor Vergata as a guest speaker. The lecture was organized by Prof. Ilijana Petrovska, a visiting professor at the university and a marketing academic with a broad international teaching profile spanning Europe and the Middle East.\n\nThe session, titled \"Who Gets to Be a Consumer? Accessibility, Psychology & Ethical Influence\", opened with a question that does not get asked enough in consumer and marketing contexts: who actually gets to participate in the digital economy, and who gets quietly left out?\n\nFilip walked the students through the real mechanics of digital exclusion, from inaccessible HTML structures that break screen readers to the psychological and commercial cost of building for only part of your market. The presentation covered the scale of the problem (93% of European websites are inaccessible; 107 million people in the EU live with a disability), the business case for fixing it, and what EaseAccess24 is building to close that gap.\n\n\"When something is not accessible [on the internet], a whole group of people is simply excluded from participating. That realisation often shifts how people think about technology.\"\nFilip Najdovski\n\nWhat made the session stand out was the student discussion that followed: curious, engaged, and willing to challenge assumptions. For us, that is exactly the point. The next generation of developers, marketers, and product builders is forming its instincts right now. We would rather be part of that conversation early.\n\nWe are grateful to Prof. Petrovska for the invitation, and we hope to be back in her class someday in the future.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/rome-tor-vergata-guest-lecture/01-lecture.jpeg", "date_published": "2026-03-06T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Speaking", "Rome", "Italy" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/smcc-collaboration-announcement/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/smcc-collaboration-announcement/", "title": "EaseAccess24 announces collaboration with the Swedish-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce", "summary": "EaseAccess24 joins the Swedish-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce as a Bronze Member, bringing accessibility software to the bilateral business community.", "content_text": "We are glad to announce a new collaboration with the Swedish-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce (SMCC), a newly founded organisation dedicated to strengthening economic ties, investment opportunities, and business collaboration between Sweden and North Macedonia.\n\nIt all started with an informal meeting between our Co-Founder Filip Najdovski and SMCC Executive Director Samuel Naumovski Vickius, shortly after which Samuel visited our offices in Skopje. We discussed bilateral business opportunities and the potential for closer cooperation between the two ecosystems. The conversation was as concrete as it was forward-looking.\n\nAs a Swedish-Macedonian startup headquartered in Malmo, with our development team based in Skopje, the SMCC is a natural home for us. We sit exactly at the intersection the chamber exists to serve: a company with roots and operations in both countries, working to bring something built across that bridge to the broader European market.\n\nWe have joined as a Bronze Member, and the SMCC is now running EaseAccess24 accessibility software.\n\nThis is the kind of collaboration we value most, one where the shared belief in what we are building is visible in practice, not just on paper.\n\nWe are looking forward to growing alongside the chamber and contributing to a closer, more active Swedish-Macedonian business ecosystem.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/smcc-collaboration-announcement/01-visit.jpeg", "date_published": "2026-01-12T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Partnership", "Skopje", "North Macedonia" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/web-summit-2025-alpha-impact-startup/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/web-summit-2025-alpha-impact-startup/", "title": "EaseAccess24 attends Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon as an ALPHA Impact startup", "summary": "EaseAccess24 exhibited at Web Summit 2025 as an ALPHA and Impact Startup, demoing accessibility tools to investors and founders in Lisbon.", "content_text": "We took EaseAccess24 to Lisbon for Web Summit 2025, one of the world's largest technology conferences, bringing together over 70,000 attendees from more than 160 countries across four days at the MEO Arena and Lisbon Exhibition & Congress Centre.\n\nWe attended as part of Web Summit's ALPHA startup programme, a track reserved for early-stage companies selected for their potential and uniqueness. The programme gave us an exhibition space for a day, access to investor meetings, startup showcases, and a floor full of founders, innovators, and decision-makers from across the global tech industry.\n\nWe were also recognised as an Impact Startup, a designation for companies working toward meaningful change in their industries and communities.\n\nOur three-person team on the ground, CEO Patrick Tairi, Deputy CEO Filip Najdovski, and Marketing Specialist Leonardo Zmajshek, ran our booth, held meetings, pitched to investors and founders, and spent four days fully immersed in the conversations that are shaping the future of tech. The rest of our team worked hard behind the scenes to make sure the stage we presented was as polished as ever.\n\nWeb Summit was our first time on a stage this size. For Leo, it was about pushing limits:\n\n\"We were there to challenge ourselves and to challenge norms. 'Possible' now has a new definition in my mind.\"\nLeonardo Zmajshek\n\nAt our booth, we did what we do best: talked accessibility, analysed websites on the spot, and exchanged ideas with people who had not necessarily thought about the problem before.\n\nThe energy and feedback we received reinforced something we already believe: this conversation needs to happen at every level of the tech industry, not just among specialists.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/web-summit-2025-alpha-impact-startup/01-booth.JPG", "date_published": "2025-11-14T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Event", "Lisbon", "Portugal" ] }, { "id": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/lokala-foretag-easeaccess24-feature/", "url": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/press/lokala-foretag-easeaccess24-feature/", "title": "Lokala Företag features EaseAccess24's accessibility mission in Sweden", "summary": "Swedish outlet Lokala Företag profiled EaseAccess24's roots in T-Meeting and its work helping companies adapt websites to WCAG, EAA, and broader digital accessibility needs.", "content_text": "Swedish outlet Lokala Företag featured EaseAccess24 in a profile that traced the company''s roots back to T-Meeting and its long-standing work on accessible communication.\n\nThe article positioned EaseAccess24 as a continuation of that mission in the web era: helping businesses make websites and digital services easier to use for people who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, color blind, dyslexic, or navigating with limited motor control.\n\nIt also highlighted the regulatory pressure now shaping the market. As WCAG and the European Accessibility Act move from abstract standards into operational requirements, more companies are having to treat accessibility as a concrete business responsibility rather than a future initiative.\n\nWhat we appreciated most is that the feature captured both sides of our work. EaseAccess24 is built to support end users who face digital barriers every day, while also helping companies identify issues, improve compliance, and open their websites to a much larger audience.\n\nFor us, that profile was a reminder that accessibility is not a niche topic. It sits at the intersection of inclusion, customer experience, and commercial reach, which is exactly where we believe it belongs.", "image": "https://www.easeaccess24.com/images/press/lokala-foretag-easeaccess24-feature/01-feature.jpg", "date_published": "2025-10-29T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "EaseAccess24" } ], "tags": [ "Media", "Malmo", "Sweden" ] } ] }