2024 Festive accessibility quiz
2024 Festive accessibility quiz
We hope you enjoy this light-hearted, festive quiz brought to you by Kelly and Samantha.
Introducing the Leader’s Guide to Accessibility
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Samantha Merrett, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Ministry of Justice and Alice Dryden, Senior Content Designer, Home Office, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations
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
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Kelly Clarkson, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Government Digital Services and Samantha Merrett, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Ministry of Justice, Posted on:
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Unlocking Accessibility
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
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Andy Jones, Head of Design, Department for Education, Jake Lloyd, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Department for Education and Kerry Lyons, Senior Content Designer, Department for Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Community, Content, Design
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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James Buller, Guerman Cope, Senior Accessibility Consultant, Home Office and Julie Maybury, User Centred Design Team, Home Office, Posted on:
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Access needs, Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations, Testing
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?
Alternative text in action
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Katherine Moonan - Senior Accessibility Specialist and Samantha Merrett, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Ministry of Justice, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Design
We want to share some top tips on writing and using alternative text to encourage everyone to add it into their content every day. Our tips can be applied no matter what software or application you’re using.
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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Richard Morton, Head of Accessibility at the Central Digital and Data Office, Cabinet Office, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations, Events
Try the mouse challenge this Global Accessibility Awareness Day to understand the importance of inclusivity in digital spaces.
Related content and links
How accessible is your website?
Public sector organisations have a legal duty to make websites accessible. Find out how your organisation is impacted at GOV.UK/accessibility-regulations
GOV.UK service and product owners need to upload an accessibility page and publishers need to upload an accessible documents policy.
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