How we’ve made GOV.UK Elements even more accessible
How we’ve made GOV.UK Elements even more accessible
Posted by:
Anika Henke, Posted on: 28 February 2018
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Categories:
Accessibility, Code, Design, Testing
At GDS we’ve brought together a range of elements that teams can use to make sure their services look and operate consistently with the rest of GOV.UK.
This includes things like typography guidelines, form elements and standardised buttons. We currently host these things on GOV.UK Elements and we’re building the GOV.UK Design System, which is where they will sit in future.
Because these elements are being used by different teams across government, we need to make sure that accessibility is – as far as possible – built into them. We also want to create a foundation for the GOV.UK Design System team, who can continue to make sure they’re accessible.
So my Accessibility team colleague Richard Morton and I carried out an audit of all the things we have in GOV.UK Elements. We fixed what we were able to and reported what we weren’t.
Here’s what we did and what we found:
Testing the elements
We wanted to look at more [...]