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Tackling a system's accessibility without testing

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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides a helpful framework for identifying technical accessibility issues, but what happens when the same issues crop up time and again? How can you find the causes and change the culture of the team behind the system?

Websites need to be accessible to be inclusive

Test setup

Making inclusion happen by helping the public sector identify and fix accessibility issues.

Creating empathy with users who have accessibility needs

Team member sat at a desk in a meeting room, using a laptop to login with the Claudia persona to the service, referring to a paper copy of the details.

The Digital Trade Finance Service team has been working hard to make its service more accessible, getting our whole team involved. This post explains how we used the GDS accessibility personas to do just that and what we learnt along the way.

Five lessons from making DBS services accessible

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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.