A beginner's guide to accessible text
Learn how to create accessible text in your web content.
Accessibility
What makes a good, accessible, easy to read font?
A detailed look at what makes a good, accessible and easy to read font. Includes examples.
Dos and don'ts on designing for older people (POSTER)
Older people could be your web site or app's most underserved audience. Turn them into customers with our poster of tips from our Digital Accessibility Experts Live webinar last week...
Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital, leading on autism. Together with the team, she’s created these …
Inclusion and accessibility for Scope's new website
With our new website, we demonstrate that great design and great accessibility can go hand in hand.
Co-op's style guidance on alternative text
Find out how to use alternative text when designing digital products and services for Co-op.
Accessible PowerPoint presentations
A collection of tips for making PowerPoint presentations more accessible.
How to create accessible PowerPoint presentations
Instructions for improving the accessibility of PowerPoint presentations.
Using contractions could be making your writing inaccessible
Content designers decide what, how and where to write things based on evidence and research with users.
How Do I Ensure My Letters and Emails are Inclusive and Accessible?
A guide to making your writing open to all and easy to follow.
Dyslexia friendly style guide
This Style Guide provides principles that can help ensure that written material considers the difficulties experienced by some dyslexic people and allows…
How to write hyperlink text for better web accessibility
Descriptive but concise hyperlink text is an important part of web accessibility. Learn hyperlink accessibility best practices and how to write optimised anchor text.
Making a positive change: PDF to HTML
As communicators, we must take care to make our content as easy to understand and accessible as possible.
Designing for people with limited English
People who depend on Home Office services, such as visas, passports and asylum, are often not fluent in English.
This means important information in application forms, guidance pages and other tasks may be difficult to understand.
We have identified 10 evidence-based principles to follow when designing content for people with limited English:
People who depend on Home Office services, such as visas, passports and asylum, are often not fluent in English.
This means important information in application forms, guidance pages and other tasks may be difficult to understand.
We have identified 10 evidence-based principles to follow when designing content for people with limited English:
Designing content for conflicting access needs
Written by Chloe Tear and published here on her behalf.
Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What's the Difference?
A lay of the land of the different kinds of synchronized transcription, featuring a creature with atom rays of superhuman strength.
NHS guidelines on PDFs and other non-HTML documents
HTML is the code for creating web pages. We avoid all non-HTML documents, including PDFs.
Home Office accessibility guidelines on readability
Accessibility guidance for readability
languages
Writing hyperlink text for better web accessibility
As you might have noticed if you've been subscribed to Plain English Weekly from the start, the team at Scope share lots of brilliant resources. This piece on link text is excellent and if you or anyone on your team is susceptible to writing links that say 'click here' or something similar, please pass it on!
Make your text and documents accessible - Help - University of Kent
From using heading styles and QR codes to writing meaningful link text, this is a super page of guidance on the University of Kent's website. This is also a good time to tell you that I once wrote about how to write good hyperlinks too.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address every user need for people with these disabilities. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
Plain English is all about using clear language to make content easier to read and understand for everyone. But it's just one part of making accessible websites.
If you work in content and want to get a better grip on web accessibility essentials, I strongly recommend this introduction from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It's very much one for your bookmarks.
Mailchimp on writing for accessibility
Writing clearly is just one part of making sure web pages are accessible to as many people as possible. Mailchimp's internal guides are always a handy reference tool and this one on accessible content is a good place to start.
How to use readable, accessible emojis
A collaboratively developed, universal content style guide, based on usability evidence. Created by Content Design London.
What’s the alternative? How to write good alt text
Design102 explains why and how you should be writing good alt text. Alt text helps users to access and consume content by describing in words elements that might otherwise rely solely on visuals.
Accounts Acing Alt Text on Social Media
Adding alt text to an image is a way of describing its content and meaning in an alternative format. Enjoy these examples from Holly Tuke, who has gathered a collection of organisations and individuals doing alt text well on social media.
Designing services for people who need help with numbers
A superb resource if you create content that includes plenty of numbers. Led by Laura Parker, this project helps you present numbers and data more clearly. It includes the thinking and evidence as well as practical advice you can use in your own work right away. Lovely stuff.