Digital Accessibility Week 2026 is a cross-government online event taking place from Monday 18 ending on Thursday 21 May which is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).
Making services accessible means making services that anyone can use. It means creating and running them so that no one is excluded, whether they have a disability or not. From our discussions around government and from our growing accessibility community, …
In this latest post in our Accessibility and Me series, we speak to a case manager at HM Revenue & Customs who has dyslexia and uses voice-dictation software Dragon. We talk to them about access requirements, the technology they use …
Back in May we launched an online survey which ran for 6 weeks. The survey asked users about what devices, web browsers and assistive technology they use to access GOV.UK. We got 712 completed surveys back, all of whom are from …
Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital, leading on autism. Together with the team, she’s created these …
...colleagues' post-it notes. As well as being hard to see, there are physical barriers or social expectations that inhibit my methods of perceiving them. Then there are the problems of...
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.
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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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