Designing an accessible intranet
Working with users from the get go Helen, Caroline and Hannah show us how they are collaborating in designing our intranet with accessibility at the forefront.
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Accessibility awareness: just because it's not broken, doesn't mean it's working
We asked our front-end developers, Jack and Martin, to decode accessibility and give us their top 5 accessibility fails and how to fix them.
Great outdoors, great accessibility
The outdoors are for everyone and so is the Essex Outdoors website. Dan Newton tells us how he ventured into the unknown, creating an engaging, commercial website, with accessibility as its guiding light.
One directive: how we're pulling together to meet our accessibility duties
2020 is the year when Essex's online services must become fully accessible. For us, the journey's already begun. Find out how this affects all our websites, apps, forms and documents.
Weeknotes 23-27 September
This week we’ve continued to think about accessibility, celebrating how far we’ve come and recognising what more there is to do. As we shared last week, essex.gov.uk now has a fabulous accessibility score of 99.6%.
Accessibility: our legal duty
The law about accessibility for public-sector websites changed in September last year. Find out what we've been doing to make sure our sites are compliant.
Show and tell notes - 6 June
This week’s show and tell included sessions on website accessibility and the Futures Academy project, as well as some discussions around work already published by the service design team. We were also trying out a new, slightly roomier venue in …