Accessibility advice when creating a UK government consultation
How we made our latest consultation accessible by creating British Sign Language and Easy Read versions, as well as what we learned publishing in multiple formats.
Alistair Duggin
Head of Accessibility at GDS.
Creating the UK government’s accessibility empathy lab
Take a look inside GDS's new space created to improve awareness of accessibility and assistive technologies.
We’re making accessibility clearer and easier
The GDS Accessibility team is here to make it easier for departments to build government services that are accessible for everyone. We want to ensure that there are no barriers that might prevent anyone from accessing a service.
Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple
I’m Alistair Duggin, Head of Accessibility here at Government Digital Service. I’ve been here for just over 7 months now. My job is to make sure that GOV.UK is as accessible as possible.
Related content and links
How accessible is your website?
Public sector organisations have a legal duty to make websites accessible by 23 September 2020. 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.