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Tell us the challenges you face in delivering accessible services

Tell us the challenges you face in delivering accessible services

Posted by:
Angela Collins Rees and Alistair Duggin, Posted on: 22 June 2016

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User research

The accessibility team at GDS is growing and we want to work out how best to help people in government make services accessible.

Simply providing accessibility audits and enforcing policy is not an effective or efficient approach.

Accessibility can be difficult for the following reasons. You might be:

  • Unfamiliar with accessibility
  • In a new role in government and haven’t had to think about it before
  • Unsure of how to approach it with your team
  • Constrained by process or budget.

We’re trying to understand the challenges that people face and how, as a team, we can best help you.

We know that there are many different approaches to making services accessible. We’d like to learn more about these and help establish best practice.

Which is why we need your help.

Throughout July we plan to run a number of informal workshops with teams and individuals around government who are willing to share their experiences, any challenges they’ve faced and suggestions [...]

Read article at accessibility.blog.gov.uk

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