Making your Twitter profile accessible
Last year, we published the accessibility guidelines in the GDS Social Media Playbook. These guidelines, along with a recent accessibility…
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As you may have already seen we recently launched our separate API and developer site in Beta. I wanted to…
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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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This is the beginning of our journey to the centre of the dataverse, otherwise known as the Customise My Data…
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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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Our Big Data team has published a report about collecting and using data from the property website Zoopla to identify…
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are important. They are an integral part of what makes the web work as, well, a…
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I’ve been with the ONS coming on 4 years now, and if there is one topic of conversation that can…
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As of 12 May 2017, the Neighbourhood Statistics and Data Explorer (beta) web services will close. The Neighbourhood Statistics website…
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Our Data Discovery Alpha is coming to an end in April. It is still possible to review the work we…
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