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Introducing the Leader’s Guide to Accessibility

This leader's guide is for anyone with responsibility for a digital team, product or service. It will help you work out how to build accessibility into your product or service from the start.

Unlocking Accessibility: Content designers share their experience and advice

Image of a laptop with the text 'Make it easy for everyone to access government services' on the screen next to a set of headphones and notebook

We asked content designers from various government departments how they initially learned about accessibility and what they wished others would consider when creating accessible content.

Accessibility and inclusive design manual blog

Screenshot of homepage for the Department for Education Accessibility and inclusive design manual. The content explains that the manual includes everything you need to understand how we create accessible, inclusive products and services in Department for Education.

How the Department of Education (DfE) are supporting teams through user-focused accessibility and inclusive design guidance and training to ensure that everyone has access to the services they need.

Tackling a system's accessibility without testing

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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides a helpful framework for identifying technical accessibility issues, but what happens when the same issues crop up time and again? How can you find the causes and change the culture of the team behind the system?