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Andrew Hick, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Government Digital Service

Accessibility audit of the Met Office app: outcomes and learnings

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We explore how the Met Office responded to an accessibility report. We also trialled tandem testing and highlighted the lessons we learnt in understanding mobile apps.

Websites need to be accessible to be inclusive

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