Reading Time: 8 minutesService designers often use mappings to communicate about their design. But many people can’t engage easily with a visual, especially a complex map. In this blog post, I explain how to use alternative formats for your mapping to help stakeholders engage with them. How a service designer can contribute to… Read More »Helping people to engage with your mappings
Reading Time: 8 minutesI’m giving a talk soon and I’ve been trying to find a good way to provide an accessible alternative format for the slides. This post explains various things I’ve explored. Context I’ve been asked to speak at Agile Manchester. It’s a talk about inclusion that I’ve given before at SDinGOV,… Read More »Alternative format for slides
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis week, I presented a talk about inclusion at SDinGOV. One of the questions at the end was about the one thing I would like people to work on, and the first thing that came to mind was about being more inclusive in the workplace. I don’t think we are… Read More »Inclusion in the workplace
Reading Time: 11 minutesAccessibility is progressing but not as fast as it should. Using my own learning journey, I’ll tell you about 7 misconceptions which might prevent you from improving the accessibility of your design. This blog post is a summary of a talk I delivered at the UCD Gathering Conference. The recording… Read More »Avoiding misconceptions on your accessibility learning journey
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is coming up on May 19th, it’s a good reminder that we should always keep accessibility in mind. I’m a service designer working on government projects so I need to comply with the service standard my projects fall under: the GOV.UK one or the Scottish Government one called Digital… Read More »Keeping accessibility in mind
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve just finished catching up with many talks from the SDinGOV Conference. So here are some thoughts on what made a speaker better than another for me. Note: This is only my point of view. I attend a lot of events (all of them online since 2020), I don’t have… Read More »Advice for speakers
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’m one of the organisers of UX Glasgow and during our latest event we talked about accessibility. It wasn’t recorded on the night but I made a video of the part I talked through after the event. I had added manually subtitles in Youtube before for short videos but this… Read More »Adding subtitles and a transcript to your video
Reading Time: 10 minutesI rarely talk about it. It’s the first time I write about it. It’s not secret though, if asked directly, I’ll say it: I have M.E. also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS/ME. Most people don’t know what this means, including many GPs and other health practitioners and some… Read More »An invisible side of M.E.
Putting a lot of resources in one place.
Well, if you are asking, it probably isn’t. Accessibility is usually not that hard to achieve but you must have this in mind while creating your website, not as an after thought.
This post is for people who are new to digital accessibility and want to learn how to improve it.
