Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week, I was in Newcastle attending the Access: Given conference. I had a really good day. I’m not new to accessibility and inclusion, but I still learned a few things and it’s always great to be with like-minded people. It’s just one day and single track, so you don’t… Read More »Access Given, a one-day accessibility conference
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 ME/CFS. 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.
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