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Interactivity
  • Error messages
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  • - Keyboard
  • Keyboard basics
  • - Tab navigation
  • - Focus
  • - Skip to content links
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Written content
  • Inclusive language
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Providing alternatives
  • Audio and video
  • Colour and contrast
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Resources
  • Accessibility Standard
  • - Perceivable
  • - Operable
  • - Understandable
  • - Robust
  • - Meet user needs
  • Guidance, tools and further reading

AccessibilityResources

Guidance

  • Helping people to use your service
  • Testing for accessibility
  • User profiles for understanding disabilities and impairments

Checklists

  • Easy checks – a first review of web accessibility
  • The A11Y Project Checklist

Tools

  • Dos and don'ts for designing accessible services
    - available as web pages and downloadable posters
  • Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA)
  • ANDI - Accessibility Testing Tool

Further reading

  • Accessibility in government blog
  • Free and paid accessibility courses
  • Accessibility newsletters
  • Accessibility podcasts
  • Other accessibility resources

Get in touch

If you’ve got a question or suggestion share it on the Home Office DDaT Slack channel #ask-accessibility or email access@digital.homeoffice.gov.uk.

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