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Samantha Merrett, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Ministry of Justice

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.

Making a positive change: PDF to HTML

Screenshot of the gov.uk webpage about the COVID-19 response: Living with COVID-19 the document has been published in both PDF and HTML format.

As communicators, we must take care to make our content as easy to understand and accessible as possible.

Accessible by default at the Food Standards Agency

Food Standards Agency logo with a person shown using a laptop.

Setting the course to becoming a much more inclusive organisation, the Food Standards Agency’s Accessibility Lead, Samantha Merrett, discusses her approach to improving awareness of accessibility and ensuring the organisation is pioneering the way. Where it all started The Public …