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Accessibility and me: James Buller

Posted by: James Buller, Posted on: 22 August 2016 - Categories: Access needs, Accessibility and Me, Assistive technology
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...colleagues' post-it notes. As well as being hard to see, there are physical barriers or social expectations that inhibit my methods of perceiving them. Then there are the problems of...

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Using the fieldset and legend elements

Posted by: Léonie Watson, Posted on: 22 July 2016 - Categories: Code, Design
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Using the right HTML elements when implementing forms is essential to ensure they can be used by as many people as possible including screen reader users. In this blog Léonie explains the correct usage of the fieldset and legend elements.

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Accessibility and me: Chris Moore

Posted by: Chris Moore, Posted on: 1 July 2016 - Categories: Access needs, Accessibility and Me, Assistive technology
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This blog by Chris Moore is the second in a series of blog posts about people with access needs. The aim of the series is to raise awareness of the different ways people access websites, the common issues faced and …

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Tell us the challenges you face in delivering accessible services

Posted by: Angela Collins Rees and Alistair Duggin, Posted on: 22 June 2016 - Categories: User research
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The accessibility team at GDS is growing and we want to work out how best to help people in government make services accessible.

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Colour contrast - why does it matter?

Posted by: Richard Morton, Head of Accessibility at the Central Digital and Data Office, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 17 June 2016 - Categories: Design
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Colour contrast between text and background is important on web pages. It affects some people’s ability to perceive the information (in other words to be able to receive the information visually).

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Research with blind users on mobile devices

Posted by: Ed Horsford, Posted on: 9 June 2016 - Categories: Design, Testing, User research
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I’m Ed, a designer at GDS. Last year we did some usability research with users with a range of visual impairments. We found out lots of interesting things, and one in particular was about the way blind users of touchscreen devices …

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