Accessibility lessons: dealing with a large amount of form inputs
...of the facets above the search results, our facet tags were often not visible at all, so users had no way of knowing that their autocomplete selections had been successful....
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How we’ve made GOV.UK Elements even more accessible
We recently audited everything in GOV.UK Elements to make sure everything in it is as accessible as it can be. Here's what we found and what we did.
What working on GOV.UK navigation taught us about accessibility
Posted by:
Andy Sellick - Frontend Developer, GDS, Posted on:
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Categories:
Access needs, Accessibility, Assistive technology, Code, Design, Testing, User research
We look at the work the GOV.UK Publishing Frontend team have done to make their navigation accessible and what they learnt from doing this.
What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage
Posted by:
Mehmet Duran, Posted on:
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Categories:
Access needs, Accessibility, Code, Content, Design, Testing
We built a webpage full of accessibility fails so that we could audit automated testing tools. Here's what we found.
Patterns for accessible webchats
Earlier this year we built a custom prototype webchat, as part of the webchat alpha. We looked at which technologies help make webchat software more usable with screen readers.
Using the fieldset and legend elements
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.
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.
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