Today's blog post is about something I've thought for decades but only got around to writing about today: "All projects (and services) start in the middle" tl;dr - in reality, we always start with "live" effortmark.co.uk/all-projects-a…

The Central Digital and Data Office accessibility monitoring report has now been published - gov.uk/government/pub… #accessibility #AccessibilityRegulations #CDDO #a11y.

Beautiful red sky over #bristol this morning

Cold but beautiful on the allotment this morning harvesting purple sprouting broccoli.

This is good news but £440k over 2 years for audits is maybe about 30 websites a year. Each government department has hundreds of sites. This isn't the only money being spent on audits in government but we probably will have to spend a lot more than this.

Testing your product for #accessibility yourself will *never* compare with testing with real users. This week we conducted 5 usability interviews with frequent screen reader users. Here are some things I observed: (a thread) 🧵👇

Having thought for years that the UX for supermarket self scan could be improved by adding more barcodes I find @LidlGB are doing it on several of their products. You just wave it and it's more likely to scan. Brilliant.

Worth a read to understand that an app like this succeeds or fails depending on how the whole public health system works.

Something to look forward to...

Anyone having a BBQ today, stick ambient ScotRail beats on in the background and post a video and I'll love you forever. I'll let you decide if that's an incentive or a deterrent. I want to see you vibing to a supermarket trolley on the track. matteason.co.uk/scotbeats/

I finished my contract with the Accessibility Team at Defra UK yesterday. Thanks to all the lovely people at Defra for all their help. I'm hoping to be joining another accessibility team after taking some needed leave.

The Ministry of Justice Digital Accessibility team in full 🎉 Very excited to have such a great team, and looking forward to all the work we've got lined up for this year 💪 Andy Ronksley Lady Moonan (She / Her) Martin Glancy Charlie Turrell Justice Digital

📣 Work news: I’ll soon be available for new work! Get in touch if you think I could help you. (Would appreciate a retweet!)

Very helpful article on WCAG 2.2 from Craig Abbott. It also highlights where proper use of the GOV Design System should help meet some of the new criteria.

New #nationwide logo seems quite similar to the existing #NatWest logo. Just saying. Could be tricky if used on small app icons.

I got the date wrong. It’s 27th June 24