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The first post of a three-part series about how to continuously improve the accessibility of your site. A great read to help empower organizations and their teams.

🌟 Website Accessibility: Part 1 🌟 Interested in creating a repeatable process to continuously improve website accessibility and inclusiveness? From understanding the needs of users to implementing best practices, let's work together to create a more accessible online experience for all! #AccessibilityMatters #InclusiveWebsite #WebAccessibility #PurposeDriven

#Virtua11y 2024 is just around the corner! Join us for this free online Accessibility Conference spanning three days, from Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th May 2024. Get ready for an exclusive preview of some of our speaker's talk details! 📢 Speaker Spotlight for Tuesday 14th May 📢 🗣️ Meet Alastair Campbell, Co-Founder and Director of Accessibility at Nomensa 🔍 Beyond the guidelines: Alastair will explore the limits of WCAG and what lies beyond guidelines for a truly inclusive web. Discover innovative methods like usability testing and the impact of design on cognitive accessibility. Plus, get a sneak peek at the exciting work on WCAG 3 aimed at bridging the current gaps. Stay tuned! 🗣️ Say hi to Catherine Weston, Digital Producer at RNLI 🔍 RNLI's Accessibility Journey: Discover how Catherine embeds accessibility into sprints and design processes, makes resources widely available, engages in regular accessibility housekeeping, and cultivates an Accessibility Champions Network. Learn about the RNLI's strategies for creating a digitally inclusive environment that reflects their commitment to saving lives, including collaborations with creative teams and data governance. 🗣️ Meet Beverley Newing, Accessibility Lead at the Ministry of Justice UK 🔍 So you pitched for accessibility and now you're leading on it: Join us as Beverley shares valuable insights and real-life lessons on turning an accessibility vision into action. This talk is perfect whether you're deep in the technical trenches or stepping up to leadership. Discover Beverley's transition from technical expertise to strategic leadership and from quiet contributions to influential stakeholder engagement. 👉 Join the conversation and reserve your space now! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eyufpJzv #AccessibilityConference #InclusiveWeb #Virtua11y

Digital accessibility starting in the design phase is the right way to go!

It is a fantastic annotation kit. Sam Choi introduced me to it, and I'm trying to get it adopted by our design team. We had been working on our own, but I think we can take this one and expand on it to include some of the small things it's missing that we need for our design system. It's nicely done. For those who aren't aware, an accessibility annotation kit allows designers and accessibility professionals to add "notes," "hints," and "tips," as it were, to Figma designs to better explain what's expected to the developer. e.g. this thing that looks like a list should be coded as an unordered list; or this thing that looks like an H3 visually should really be an H2 because of where it is in the content. These are very helpful, especially when designs can be confusing with how things are named.

Accessibility annotations should be a part of every team's design process. This is how we ensure the end-product is ready on time with the least number of impediments. Link to Figma: https://lnkd.in/eMM74qjE #A11y #uxDesign

➡️Is your #digital #platform really ready for the European Accessibility Act? 🇪🇺 Join our webinar and get the relevant informations and practical tipps - get now ready for it!😉👍

I had the opportunity to brush up on my website accessibility skills last week with a remote workshop presented by Maigen Thomas! As designers, we should always try to create inclusive and accessible solutions even if it may take a little more effort. What are we fighting for if not for the user experience of all users? #WebsiteAccessibility #InclusiveSolutions #ContinuousLearning

So how should you be designing for Digital Accessibility? In the same way you design anything good: discover who your users are and their needs, understand good design principles and test your ideas with real people. #DigitalAccessibility #WebUsability @lucycollins Designing for Accessibility https://hubs.ly/Q02FN_qq0

Question for service design contacts - Has anyone come across a "Design System" or something similar for non-digital services? I'm wondering how to go about creating basically a list of practical design features for creating accessible and inclusive community services. I've heard about "design systems" in UI being a way to create a consistent visual experience by listing standard components and elements that work so people don't keep reinventing the wheel. I know there are really good ones out there for creating accessible and inclusive digital services. And I sort of want to create something similar for non-digital services - like health services, support groups, things like that. I'm currently compiling lots of tips from lots of different sources, and I want to be able to share that research in a way that's easy to use. Does something like that already exist? Or does anyone have any thoughts on how to make that work? #ServiceDesign #DesignSystems #Accessibility #A11y #HealthAndCare #EDI