In everyday life, being colour blind brings about challenges which normal sighted people probably aren’t aware of, like if a banana is ripe or unripe.
The public sector digital accessibility regulations have changed. Find out more about what’s next for digital accessibility.
Interested in running an Accessibility Book club? Read about one at the Ministry of Justice Digital and Technology, with accompanying resources to help you get started.
Find out more about what happened at the last cross government accessibility meetup.
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.
Leeds City Council use tidying-up philosophies to help prepare leeds.gov.uk for the accessibility regulations.
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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