How we’re helping public sector websites meet accessibility requirements
As new accessibility regulations come into force, here's some guidance on what public sector websites will have to do by certain deadlines and how GDS can help support them.
Accessibility
You can find more information about accessibility on the dedicated Accessibility in government blog.
We’ve updated the GDS YouTube channel
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Alastair Mogford - former Motion Graphic Designer & Filmmaker, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Digital strategy, GDS team
As our YouTube channel turned 6 years old earlier this year, we thought it was time for a refresh. Find out more about its new look, how we've made films easier to find and what our plans are for future content.
Accessibility advice when creating a UK government consultation
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Alistair Duggin - former Head of Accessibility, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility
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.
Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Content design, GOV.UK
We're not huge fans of PDFs on GOV.UK. We hope this post will help publishers explain to colleagues the problems with using them and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.
The importance of creating inclusive government services
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Ben Carpenter - former Assisted Digital & Digital Take Up Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Transformation
The challenges of building effective services for all and some of the work we're doing to make services as inclusive as possible.
Creating the UK government’s accessibility empathy lab
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Alistair Duggin - former Head of Accessibility, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility
Take a look inside GDS's new space created to improve awareness of accessibility and assistive technologies.
Consultation launch: accessibility of public sector websites and apps
This year the UK is implementing the EU Directive on the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile apps. To gather your views, we’ve launched a consultation to help plan how we implement the Directive.
We’re making accessibility clearer and easier
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Alistair Duggin - former Head of Accessibility, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility
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.
2016 on the GDS blog
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The GDS Team, Posted on:
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Accessibility, GDS team, People and skills, Service design
It’s the time of the year for ‘Best-of lists’. In keeping with the season, we’ve been looking back over some of the most popular blog posts of 2016. Here’s a selection.
Platform as a Service team takes even-handed approach to meetings
Our larger team meetings were getting longer and communication was becoming harder, so one of our team members suggested hand signals as a way to help with this.
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