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William Rees - Senior Content Designer - Welsh Government

Making a positive change: PDF to HTML

Posted by: Samantha Merrett, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Ministry of Justice, Chris Comber - Graphic Designer - GRS/GBS, Stephanie Hill - Digital Content Lead - UK Health Security Agency and William Rees - Senior Content Designer - Welsh Government, Posted on: 12 June 2023 - Categories: Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations, Content
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.

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