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Andy Jones, Head of Design, Department for Education, Jake Lloyd, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Department for Education and Kerry Lyons, Senior Content Designer, Department for Education, 29 October 2024 - Accessibility, Community, Content, Design

How the Department of Education (DfE) are supporting teams through user-focused accessibility and inclusive design guidance and training to ensure that everyone has access to the services they need.

Accessibility matters at the Intellectual Property Office UK (IPO)

Amy Price, Senior Digital Strategy Manager, Intellectual Property Office UK, 4 May 2023 - Accessibility, Community

Amy Price reflects on how the Intellectual Property Office UK (IPO) has made accessibility a priority by setting up a champions network and creating a supportive accessible environment.

Designing in a colour blind world

Scott Forsyth, Senior Service Designer, CDIO Innovation, HMRC, 16 December 2022 - Accessibility, Accessibility and Me, Community, Design

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.

Some changes to the public sector digital accessibility regulations

Chris Heathcote, Product Manager, Accessibility Monitoring, 9 December 2022 - Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations, Community, Content

The public sector digital accessibility regulations have changed. Find out more about what’s next for digital accessibility.

Setting up an Accessibility Book Club

Beverley Newing - Accessibility Lead - MoJ, 1 March 2022 - Accessibility, Community

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.

November Cross Government Accessibility Community Meetup

Richard Morton and Josie Partridge, 21 January 2021 - Accessibility, Community, Conferences

Find out more about what happened at the last cross government accessibility meetup.

Accessibility in government

This is for everyone: documenting how we're rebuilding inclusive digital services across the UK Government.
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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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