How we made our accessibility empathy lab virtual
Find out more about how we took our accessibility empathy lab online when we moved to remote working.
Accessibility
Five lessons from making DBS services accessible
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Leyla Kee-McParlin, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations, Assistive technology, Community, Content, Design, Testing
Leyla Kee-McParlin of the Disclosure and Barring Service talks about the challenges of making services accessible and inclusive, and how that can be applied to other services, by using teams’ existing skills, but getting help from specialists where needed. Accessibility and inclusion is never “done” and learning has to continue.
Why videos on GOV.UK use the YouTube video player
This blog post explains why YouTube was the most suitable video player for GOV.UK. In a future blog post, we will explain more about how to make your video accessible for the YouTube player.
Training people to do accessibility reviews
I created a fictional service called ‘Record a goose sighting’ using the GOV.UK Design System. I then broke it to introduce accessibility issues based on real issues I’ve seen, such as missing alt text and broken heading hierarchies.
Making GOV.UK Pay more accessible
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Katie Bates GDS Senior Product Manager, Tim Paul, GDS Head of Interaction Design and Tingting Zhao, GDS Lead User Researcher, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations
GOV.UK Pay aims to offer public sector organisations the most accessible payment service. Here’s how we’ve made it accessible with the latest version of the GOV.UK Design System. GOV.UK Pay is a simple, secure way to pay for government services …
How DWP used the easy read format to make its content more accessible
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Ben Railton - Senior Easy Read Design Manager, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Posted on:
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Categories:
Access needs, Accessibility, Easy Read
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Accessibility Design Team is transforming the way disabled people access information that is important to them. One of the most exciting projects we have been working on recently is the introduction of …
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.