In our series of spotlight interviews, we introduce you to some of our colleagues working across the Parliamentary Digital Service. Katy O’Brien is a Digital Accessibility Specialist Lead who has worked at PDS for one and a half years. How …
We’ve published a content policy. This is the first time we’ve done that since UK Parliament was established in 1801. Was there a lot of digital content back then? I can’t say, but there was a content lobby… The word …
Parliament is a busy workplace, and our intranet has information about everything we need to know, from important news stories and events happening on the parliamentary estate, to health and wellbeing resources, or the practical information every workplace needs to …
A group of people in customer-facing roles set up a network of accessibility champions as a simple way to learn more about accessibility and share knowledge between colleagues in PDS.
The job of the PDS Film Production team is to make sure that the films we produce reach as wide an audience as possible. We were asked to look at incorporating BSL into a film tour of the Parliamentary Archives to improve accessibility for UK viewers.
Public sector websites and apps, including Parliament's, have a duty to make sure content is inclusive and accessible to as many people as possible. Sophie Miller describes the work that's been done to improve our digital services, challenges that had to be overcome, and why there is more to do.
Parliament Live attracts millions of viewers who want to watch parliamentary debates and committee meetings as they happen. So why are we changing something that's working well?
Molly Watt and Chris Bush from Sigma came to PDS to talk about the benefits of designing inclusive services and bust a few myths about accessibility and disabilities.
Franny Gant writes about bringing everyone together for user research for a recent project and why it's important to have the right people in the room.
Jack Craig has blogged about the choices we made when choosing our new typeface for the beta website.