Accessible fonts for easier readability: the basics
Fonts affect accessibility for visually impaired and dyslexic users. Read our guide to understand how to choose accessible fonts for websites and other documents that are easy to read for everyone.
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Accessibility tips on bullet points
Every week, we’ll share accessibility tips about a particular topic.
Web Accessibility for Deaf Users Guide
Dive into our detailed guide on web accessibility for deaf users. Understand the challenges, design principles, and tools to build accessible websites for deaf users. Join us in making the web more inclusive and accessible for all.
Designing content for users who are deaf or hard of hearing
Around 9 million people in the UK have some form of hearing loss. Every deaf person is different, with various degrees...
Common misconceptions about screen readers
Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.
Using visual content in an accessible way :: Content Design Ireland
Like many aspects of accessibility, using visuals in your social media content can make things more accessible for some people and less accessible for others. Here's why you should keep using visual content, but do it in an accessible way.
How to use braille for accessible information
A simple introduction in how to design with Braille, including signs, accessible information and tactile maps.
Designing for people on the autism spectrum
Learn about the accessibility barriers that can affect people on the autism spectrum. Learn how to design and write better for autistic users.
How to design accessible hint text
We all need to design good, accessible hint text in our services. Good hint text is short, made up of words only, and based on evidence. Bad, inaccessible hint text is long, includes elements like bullets and links, and isn’t always based on evidence.
Accessibility training – developing accessibility awareness and knowledge
Online training for learning about, and developing accessibility awareness and knowledge.
What does accessible really look like?
Content design for accessibility goes well beyond an accessibility audit. A website can pass an audit with flying colours, yet still not be accessible to a considerable number of the people who need to use it. Don’t let your audit become a compliance tick box, it’s not enough.
How to use links in guidance content
Content designers need to name and place links with great care. Misusing links will make your content inaccessible and risks confusing users or losing them forever.
A beginner's guide to accessible text
Learn how to create accessible text in your web content.
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
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