It’s been almost six months since I moved into the ONS website development team. I was lucky to start the…
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Last year, we published the accessibility guidelines in the GDS Social Media Playbook. These guidelines, along with a recent accessibility…
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What is accessibility? Here is a lovely definition of accessibility from Carnegie Mellon University: “Accessibility is the degree to which…
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In 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…
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Well then. As is only right and normal at the end of a year, it is time to look back at a year in the life of Digital Publishing. It has been a big year for us here in ONS. We launched our new site in February. We also saw a bunch of people move on to new projects and recruited some very talented people to help us ensure we continue to improve everything we do.
Read more on A year in the life of Digital PublishingThe following blog post is written by Laura Churchill, Senior Content Editor. The Digital Publishing editorial team at ONS has a unique…
Read more on Why proofreading is so importantThis week, several members of the Digital Publishing team, including myself, went on the first of 2 scheduled visits to…
Read more on Learning first-hand why accessibility is importantI had a very interesting Friday last week; and I honestly wasn’t expecting it. Some of the eQ team visited…
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The GDS Design principles say accessible design is good design. All information that we share should be inclusive, legible, accurate and…
Read more on Social Media AccessibilityThe following blog post is written by Ben Cubbon. All of our statistics are official statistics. They are used to:…
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