GOV.UK hosts half a million web pages. That’s a big website. Here’s how we made it more accessible, the challenges we faced and lessons learned.
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.
A team from the Crown Prosecution Service talk about how testing with assistive technology users, and not just carrying out an external audit, helped them make their service better.
We regularly write about accessibility not just on this blog, but on blogs across GDS and across government. Here's a selection of some recent accessibility blog posts we've published.
Out most recent Cross-Government Accessibility Meetup features presentations from HMRC, Home Office and Citizens Advice. Here's what we talked about.
We built a webpage full of accessibility fails so that we could audit automated testing tools. Here's what we found.
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.
Work with GDS to make it faster and more cost-effective for all civil servants to use accessible online forms to collect information from the public.