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Welsh translation

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/welsh-language-on-gov-uk

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Accessibility Specialist

The role

We are looking for an accessibility specialist to join our multi-disciplinary team. This role will support us in building accessibility capability, knowledge and skills across the organisation. They will conduct detailed accessibility testing and consulting across our services.

Our team helps other teams to

• measure inclusivity and accessibility of their services
• embed inclusive design and accessibility skills in their teams

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Accessibility and inclusive design data

• https://twitter.com/abbott567/status/1471756606538977283
• https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-work/digital-inclusion/digital-inclusion-in-health-and-social-care via https://twitter.com/MustBeMistry
• https://twitter.com/FrankElavsky/status/1479197812516663299?s=20
• https://twitter.com/A11yLondon/status/1481312226954862599

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• https://tetralogical.com/blog/2021/06/23/an-inclusive-approach-to-video-production/
• https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/planning/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/guide-visual-language-closed-captions-subtitles-gareth-ford-williams/
• https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-matters/2021/creating-content-that-saves-lives
• https://www.getstark.co/blog/how-to-make-your-video-and-audio-content-accessible

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Accessible PowerPoint presentations

Make your slides available

• Share your slides
• Before the meeting starts ideally
• Or at the beginning of the presentation
• So people can follow at their own pace

When speaking

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Designing with people with dementia and Alzheimer's

• Including people affected by dementia in user-centred design with Alzheimer’s Society https://www.peopleforresearch.co.uk/blog/2018/12/user-centred-design-dementia/
• Recruiting people with dementia for user research - useful organisations https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/dementia-professionals/dementia-experience-toolkit/how-recruit-people-dementia/useful-organisations
• Using personas to gather dementia experiences https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/dementia-professionals/dementia-experience-toolkit/research-methods/personas
• Best Practice Guidance - Human Interaction with Technology in Dementia - https://www.dementiainduct.eu/guidance/introduction/
• Dementia Digital Design Guidelines - https://rikwilliams.net/ux/accessibility/dementia-digital-design-guidelines/
• Involving people with dementia - https://www.dementiavoices.org.uk/deep-resources/involving-people-with-dementia/
• Making things more accessible - https://www.dementiavoices.org.uk/deep-resources

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Co-design resources

• https://co-design.inclusivedesign.ca/
• https://www.beyondstickynotes.com/
• https://www.beyondstickynotes.com/what-is-codesign
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/co-design-disrupting-common-cast-characters-kelly-ann-mckercher/
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90643543/design-tools-have-improved-dramatically-but-theyre-still-failing-users-in-one-key-way
• https://www.pointofcarefoundation.org.uk/resource/experience-based-co-design-ebcd-toolkit/
• https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles
• https://publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2021/08/05/are-you-making-a-bid-for-design/

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Objectives and key results (OKRs)

• https://visitmy.website/2019/02/21/how-we-use-okrs-gov-uk/
• https://pipdecks.com/pages/objectives-and-key-results

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1-to-1 review catch ups

• What would you like to cover?
• Are you happy? Anything bothering you?
• What are you working on?
• Anything I can do to help?

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• Give plenty of notice, and ask your team member to prepare their thoughts.

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Inclusive design and accessibility books

• Beyond Sticky Notes https://www.beyondstickynotes.com/
• Design Justice https://design-justice.pubpub.org/
• Good Services https://good.services/
• Inclusive Components http://book.inclusive-components.design/
• Inclusive Design for a Digital World https://reginegilbert.com/inclusive-design-book
• Mismatch How Inclusion Shapes Design https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/mismatch