Accessibility

A list of accessibility blog posts.

• Inclusive design for interaction designers

  23 April 2023

  What can interaction designers do to make services more inclusive?

• Accessible PowerPoint presentations

  20 November 2022

  A collection of tips for making PowerPoint presentations more accessible.

• My first 3 months in the inclusive design team

  8 October 2021

• Joining NHS test and trace

  24 July 2021

• A plan for accessible maps

  28 November 2020

• Weeknotes – series 04 episode 04

  15 November 2020

• Weeknotes – series 04 episode 02

  1 November 2020

• Weeknotes – series 04 episode 01

  24 October 2020

• Teams who share their accessibility processes in the open

  19 May 2020

• Accessible close buttons

  30 April 2020

  A short post about designing close buttons with SVG icons and accessible mark-up.

• Generally, it’s better to avoid opening links in new windows or tabs

  20 April 2020

• Accessible search form mark-up

  10 January 2020

• Making data tables more accessible

  18 December 2019

• Accessibility checklist

  7 November 2019

  A list of accessibility recommendations; covering typography, content, layout and interaction.

• How improving typography can help us to meet user needs

  13 November 2018

  What is typography? What problems does good typography solve? How do we know poor typography is a real problem?

• A plan for accessible charts

  17 September 2018

  A list of user research findings, accessibility report findings, best practice, resources and good ideas that I’ve collected over the past 2 years.

• What's the best way to mark-up an SVG map?

  3 June 2018

• Add SVG icons

  19 January 2018

  Why SVG is best for icons, and which attributes to use.

• Add aria-current to the site nav

  13 January 2018

• Accessibility for designers

  19 December 2017

  A guide to web accessibility for graphic, visual and UI (user interface) designers.

• The first UK Government accessibility meet-up

  22 July 2016