Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve had to deal with a lot of unexpected things in the past few months. I had time to reflect about what enables me to make changes and how this has evolved over the years. My last contract terminated earlier than planned. Like many people, I should have resumed work… Read More »Recognising what enables me to make changes
Reading Time: 9 minutesFor a long time I thought I knew about accessibility and inclusion. But like for many subjects, once you start learning, you realised there is a lot more to it. We still often stay at the surface on these subjects. This blog post will try to show other layers so… Read More »Different levels of inclusion awareness
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: 6 minutesI’ve been writing about ‘removing barriers’ a lot in the past year: barriers for disabled people, barriers into design careers and more. Before trying to remove a barrier, first, we need to identify and understand it. Edit 24/02/2024: I presented a talk about this for the Scottish Tech Army, a… Read More »Removing barriers to inclusion
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou might know about Plain English or plain language, but what about plain numbers? Only 1 in 2 adults have the numeracy level expected at primary level. Maths makes 1 out of 4 people feeling anxious. Last week was Service Week – an event for public servants where you can… Read More »Plain numbers
The idea: developing a website where people can fill in forms which look like the real ones but simplified to learn and become more confident. This is Jumana Almusawi‘s idea: she contacted me about it back in February on LinkedIn.
A lot has happen since my last blog post about this. Work is nearly completed and we tested with learners on Zoom recently.
Read More »Improving digital skills – a tool using the GOV.UK prototype kit – part 2About 1 in 7 people in Scotland can’t get online. This is about 800,000 people (more data at the end).
Read More »Improving digital skills – building a tool with the GOV.UK prototype kitA short post to help people new to these terms – I have a more recent blog post on inclusion.
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