Take part in research to help us make the ONS website better
For those who’ve seen our shout-outs for people to take part in research over the last few years, you’ll be…
Read morePicking things from a long list
One of the trickiest patterns we’re working on as part of Customise My Data is the geography filter. You’ll often…
Read moreJourney to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 3
In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Axel and Professor Lidenbrock finish their preparation and complete their…
Read moreThe ramblings of a front-end developer (who’s trying to write Go)
I’m a front-end developer who spends most of his day writing HTML, CSS and Javascript, but more recently I’ve been…
Read moreJourney to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 2
In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Axel is frightened about the journey ahead. That’s probably a…
Read moreMaking your Twitter profile accessible
Last year, we published the accessibility guidelines in the GDS Social Media Playbook. These guidelines, along with a recent accessibility…
Read moreBeta API: An introduction
As you may have already seen we recently launched our separate API and developer site in Beta. I wanted to…
Read moreMaking social media accessible
What is accessibility? Here is a lovely definition of accessibility from Carnegie Mellon University: “Accessibility is the degree to which…
Read moreJourney to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 1
This is the beginning of our journey to the centre of the dataverse, otherwise known as the Customise My Data…
Read moreReinventing the Wheel
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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