dai11y 02/03/2021

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How we created a reporting tool to improve the accessibility of GOV.UK

  • Avision Ho, a data scientist at GDS, describes how their team built a tool to check half a million GOV.UK pages for some specific WCAG failures. They concentrated on 8 problems, including non-semantic headers (paragraph text styled with bold, mimicking the style of a heading), badly ordered headers and falsely labelled non-English text.
  • It goes into some technical detail on how the team used multi-processing techniques to generate the reports in just a few hours. The reports were sorted by government department, so that the Accessibility Team could speak with the relevant content editors about the issues identified.
  • The article lacks a summary of how many issues were identified and how much has subsequently been fixed, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction and I hope we can read more about this soon.

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