This leader's guide is for anyone with responsibility for a digital team, product or service. It will help you work out how to build accessibility into your product or service from the start.
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.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has many services, all of which need to meet the accessibility needs of users. This is now more of a whole-team conversation, creating a more responsive audit.
Find out more about how we took our accessibility empathy lab online when we moved to remote working.
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.
This blog post explains why YouTube was the most suitable video player for GOV.UK. In a future blog post, we will explain more about how to make your video accessible for the YouTube player.
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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