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AGL Accessibility

Our commitment to creating and fostering a safe and supportive workplace for employees with disability is reinforced in our purpose Powering Australian Life and our value Be safe. Be supportive.

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Disability Action Plan

Our FY2025-2026 Accessibility Action Plan (AAP) builds on the work that AGL has undertaken over the past few years to improve its disability access and inclusion maturity. The action items contained in the AAP have been carefully developed to drive further meaningful change within our organisation for our employees, customers and the community. The AAP also highlights some of the improvements made in FY23-24 in relation to disability access and inclusion at AGL, with many improvements stemming from the achievement of action items from AGL’s FY23-24 Disability Action Plan.

The AAP is championed by Melinda Hunter (General Counsel & Company Secretary) who is the Executive Sponsor of AGL Ability (AGL’s Disability Employee Network) and is overseen by the AGL Ability Committee.

Accessible processes for customers

We offer several services to help vision impaired customers read their bills, all outlined on the Help & Support page on our website. These include:

  • Electronic billing (PDFs can be enlarged on screen),
  • Enlarged bills (A3 size),
  • Document transposition (into a word template for machine readable output),
  • Voice (we will call you to read out your bill line-by-line),
  • Audio Graphs and VoiceOver features (which turn charts into audible representations on the AGL app).

To request these services, log in to My Account or get in touch with our team.

We have also developed an Easy English guide to explain energy bills which is available here.

If you are deaf or find it hard to hear or talk you can contact the National Relay Service online or call 1300 555 727. 

Valuable 500

We have committed to The Valuable 500, making us the first Australian energy company to join the global collective.

The Valuable 500 is a global movement putting disability inclusion on the business leadership agenda. The movement is calling on 500 of the most influential business leaders and their organisations to ignite systematic change for the 1.3 billion people living with disabilities around the world. As members, we will join a community of like-minded businesses committed to raising their game on disability.

AGL Ability network

The AGL Ability Network is an internal space for all AGL people to collaborate, support each other and discuss disability inclusion, supported by our AGL Ability Committee. As part of the network, we welcome people of all abilities to be a part of the conversation and get involved in events and news through our internal online channels.

Feedback

Please contact us on Disability@agl.com.au to provide feedback on the accessibility of our products and services. We welcome all feedback, particularly from our customers with lived experience with disability.

Accessibility Statement

We’re making our website, digital channels and all communications more accessible.

Our goal for the AGL website is to conform to level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.

We take the following measures to ensure our website is accessible: 

  • Include accessibility in our internal research, design, development and testing policies.
  • Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
  • Provide continual digital accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of our website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your device:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are needed in order for our website to meet the accessibility standards.

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How we’ll keep improving

To conform with the latest accessibility guidelines, we continue to review, test and modify our website. We’ve recently engaged an external agency to help with this and we are currently working on a range of initiatives with our development teams.

As with any digital asset, releases are frequent and technologies ever changing, meaning that accessibility is an activity that will be always on, and respected by AGL.

Got feedback on the accessibility of our website? 

Your thoughts are important to us and we welcome your feedback. Please post ideas for improving AGLs products and services on our Neighbourhood forum, or let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers by emailing us at accessibility@agl.com.au.

Published February 2023