10 digital accessibility mistakes to avoid
10 digital accessibility mistakes to avoid
A list of common mistakes and simple fixes when designing and developing accessible websites and apps.
Bringing accessibility audits in-house
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.
How we made our accessibility empathy lab virtual
Find out more about how we took our accessibility empathy lab online when we moved to remote working.
Five lessons from making DBS services accessible
Posted by:
Leyla Kee-McParlin, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Accessibility Regulations, Assistive technology, Community, Content, Design, Testing
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.
Why videos on GOV.UK use the YouTube video player
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.
Cleaning our way to accessibility
Leeds City Council use tidying-up philosophies to help prepare leeds.gov.uk for the accessibility regulations.
Training people to do accessibility reviews
I created a fictional service called ‘Record a goose sighting’ using the GOV.UK Design System. I then broke it to introduce accessibility issues based on real issues I’ve seen, such as missing alt text and broken heading hierarchies.
Related content and links
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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